The Second Earth
Humanity’s first foothold on Mars will cost a trillion dollars and may kill the first to try. A clear-eyed reckoning with the case for – and against.
Space & Physics
The Slow Derailment
For the first time ever, scientists captured a tectonic plate tearing itself apart. Inside the dying Juan de Fuca plate beneath the Pacific Northwest.
The Hidden Hundred
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Alien Water
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries water 40 times heavier than Earth’s oceans. Three visitors from other stars suggest our solar system may be the outlier.
The Files Are Open
The Pentagon released 161 classified UAP files on 8 May 2026. They show craft doing things that shouldn’t be possible. They do not confirm extraterrestrial origin. Both things are true.
The Metal World
On 15 May 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft skims Mars at 12,333 mph to steal its gravity. Destination: an iron asteroid that may be a dead planet’s exposed core.
Life in the Ice
Sealed beneath a kilometre of Antarctic ice, lakes hold living organisms isolated for millions of years. What they tell us about life on Europa.
The Sun In A Bottle
On December 5, 2022, a US laser facility achieved fusion ignition—more energy out than in. The science of NIF’s breakthrough and the race to commercial fusion.
Migdal Effect Dark Matter
In 1939, physicist Arkady Migdal predicted that a recoiling nucleus would eject an electron. 87 years later, it’s confirmed – and it opens a new path to detecting dark matter.
Lyman Alpha Hydrogen Halos
HETDEX found 33,000 giant hydrogen halos from 10 billion years ago — the gas reservoirs that fed Cosmic Noon, when the universe made most of its stars. Here is the science.
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