The Global Burden of Type 1 Diabetes Is Not Shared Equally People with this autoimmune disease face much shorter life expectancies in lower-income nations. By Carin Leong edited by Kelso Harper This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Carin…
Rollin’ Justin can avoid obstacles and serve drinks, among other tasks Henrik Spohler/laif/CameraPress We have long been fascinated with our own image. In the 1920s play Rossum’s Universal Robots, Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the term robot to describe human-looking creatures forced to work in factories. Since then, we have built many humanoid robots that…
November 15, 2025 2 min read Scientists Measure the Temperature of the Universe Just after the Big Bang Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth By Clara Moskowitz edited by Lee Billings Image of two gold beams colliding at near the speed…
Carol (Rhea Seehorn, left) struggles to grasp the outbreak of happiness Anna Kooris Copyright: Apple TV+ PluribusVince Gilligan, Apple TV If I asked you to name the best episode of a TV show (as I often ask my patient friends), you could do worse than pick “Ozymandias”. One of the final episodes of Breaking Bad,…
November 14, 2025 1 min read Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful Solar Flare The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral display just erupted in another powerful solar flare early on Friday morning By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center The same active…
Quentin, in a shot taken by his brother Owen Owen Reiser Timothy RevellExecutive editor, London “This here would be my older brother Quentin. And last year, he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of early-onset birdwatcher.” This is Owen, talking in Listers: A glimpse into extreme birdwatching –and it may just be my…
November 13, 2025 4 min read This Mars-Bound Spacecraft Will Test Jared Isaacman’s Vision for NASA NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans By Morgan McFall-Johnsen edited by Lee Billings NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and…
Looking for the perfect gift? The Celestron Origin Mark II Intelligent Home Observatory Gregory R.R. Crosby / Celestron When it comes to Christmas presents, there are some people for whom it just feels impossible to buy (I’m looking at my father, for whom I’ve been stumped gift-wise ever since he went off Dick Francis novels)….
November 14, 2025 2 min read Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide By Andrea Tamayo edited by Claire Cameron Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some…
The skin and muscle of Yuka’s front left leg are exceptionally well preserved Love Dalen A woolly mammoth that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years has yielded the world’s oldest RNA. The specimen, found in 2010 and nicknamed Yuka, is regarded as the best-preserved woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) ever found. Yuka…
