On February 20, 2025, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked across Europe, and scientists in Germany tracked its lithium pollution plume via LiDAR.

ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

“The Euclid data clearly confirm the presence of the extremely faint, diffuse light of CDG-2, revealing the galaxy behind the ...

We are living through a moment of profound strain on the global system. Geopolitical conflict, economic uncertainty, technological acceleration, political polarization and social fragmentation are no ...

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework states that plastic pollution must be eliminated by 2030. So why haven't we enacted measures that make a real difference? Plastic pollution is more ...

IKEA’s smart home tech gets a lot of the basics – including price – right, but Matter connectivity issues are a downer on the whole experience, including some problems with the newfound button ...

“Anytime an American sports team travels abroad the next three years, they will likely be cast as villains,” predicted sportswriter Will Leitch in an Intelligencer column early in March; with the ...

Once, when I was interviewing a nonprofit leader about a surge in charitable giving, she made an off-the-cuff comment that has always stuck with me: “People first want to be successful in life, then ...

The Milky Way — and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group — appear to be lodged in a vast, extended “sheet” of dark matter flanked on each side by cosmic voids, new ...

In wealthy, relatively safe countries, how long people live now probably depends just as much on the genetic variants they inherit from their parents as on their environment and lifestyles. That’s the ...

Dr. Jamila T. Davis can hardly contain her excitement. Hours before former New Jersey governor Phil Murphy was set to leave office, he signed into law two bills, both concerning domestic violence ...