Writer Annie Rauwerda makes a habit of getting lost among the seemingly endless digital archives of Wikipedia, discovering fake towns, promiscuous tortoises, 19th-century fangirls and so...
The “aliens” of Earth live in the deepest parts of the ocean, and marine biologist Alan Jamieson has the photographs to prove it. Explore the depths...
We’re going to be building on the Moon this decade — and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she...
SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new — and supersized — way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks...
“Life makes our planet an incredibly exotic place compared to the rest of the known universe,” says astrobiologist Betül Kaçar, whose research uses statistics and mathematical...
What if robots could build and optimize themselves — with little to no help from humans? Computer scientist Emma Hart is working on a new technology...
The Endurance was lost more than a century ago, after getting stuck in Antarctic ice. Now, it’s been found in remarkable condition. Subscribe to CNET: Like...
Memory foam, air purifiers, scratch-resistant lenses: these are just a few of the everyday items originally developed for space missions. Aerospace engineer Eric Hinterman invites us...
First it was the Ingenuity helicopter taking flight, now NASA has created the first oxygen on Mars, generating enough to sustain a Martian astronaut for 10...
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