Elon Musk Takes on the Big Three with Direct-to-Cell Expansion
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making its bid to become the fourth major nationwide mobile carrier in the United States, taking…
Why the “Russian Plague” is Not the Apocalypse They Want You to Believe it is
Few words evoke visceral dread quite like “plague.” When reports emerged of a suspected plague-related death tied to an anti-plague…
Deciphering Alien Skies: How the James Webb Space Telescope Reads the Chemistry of Distant Worlds
For decades, the search for extrasolar planets focused entirely on detection: confirming that distant pinpricks of light were periodically dimmed…
Silence, Interrupted: The Viral Coup That Gave Deaf Children Sound
A child sits in a testing room with a pair of headphones clamped over their ears. A speaker produces a…
Twin Solar Eruptions Threaten Earth with Successive “Train” of Plasma Storms
Space weather forecasters are closely tracking a pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) hurtling across the inner solar system toward…
The Negative Impacts AI Has on Our Environment and How Big Tech is Trying to Change This
Behind the seamless generation of synthetic media, algorithmic discoveries, and conversational agents lies an intensely physical apparatus. Artificial intelligence does…
How the Earth Will End
We’re used to hearing that Earth has roughly 5 billion years left before the Sun expands into a red giant…
Can AI Rescue Peer Review? Evaluating the Potential and Pitfalls of Automated Science Vetting
The scientific publishing apparatus is under unprecedented strain. Driven by the relentless pressure to “publish or perish” and further accelerated…
Forecasting the Sun’s Fury: How NOAA Monitors Space Weather Threats
When most people check the daily forecast, they look for rain, snow, or rising temperatures. But 93 million miles away,…
How “Brain-Eating” Amoebas Exploit Tight Spaces to Reach the Brain
The single-celled organism commonly known as the “brain-eating amoeba”—Naegleria fowleri—normally lives an innocuous life, scavenging bacteria in the warm sediment…