November 13, 2025 2 min read Blue Origin’s NASA Launch to Mars Is a Shot across the Bow for SpaceX After delays, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company successfully launched a NASA mission to study Mars on Thursday. By Claire Cameron edited by Lee Billings CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Blue Origin successfully launched — and partially…
There are many factors behind the decline in sexual activity among young people Frazao Studio Latino/Getty Images The comedy film No Sex Please – We’re British was released in 1973 with a largely youthful cast and one too many double entendres. Half a century later, that title seems more apt than ever, at least among…
Wishing for an extra hour in the day is a common refrain throughout the industrialized world. And every fall, in places where the clocks fall back an hour, that wish reaches fruition. Yet many people still wind up feeling time-crunched. What gives? People often view time and time poverty — the feeling of having too…
November 13, 2025 2 min read ‘Godfather of AI’ Breaks Major Science Research Record The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the…
Adolf Hitler’s genome has been sequenced for a TV documentary Roger Viollet via Getty Images If you resort to mentioning Adolf Hitler, some say, you have lost the argument. If you resort to sequencing Hitler’s DNA to try to get more eyeballs for your TV channel, I would say you have just plain lost it….
Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs. Tiny floating plankton, the base of the food web, can accidentally ingest particles of sediment kicked up by deep-sea mining operations — forgoing more nutritious food of similar size, researchers report November 6 in Nature Communications. That could trigger a bottom-up…
The ˁAin Samiya silver goblet The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/Ardon Bar Hama The artwork on a 4300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the Palestinian West Bank appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos – making it the oldest known visual representation of a creation myth. “I think it’s an ingenious design,” says Eberhard Zangger…
Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a computer or even a digital calculator? In the 1800s French mathematician Édouard Lucas spent years proving that this 39-digit number was indeed prime. How did he do it? Lucas, who incidentally also designed…
Adolf Hitler’s genome has been sequenced for a TV documentary Smith Archive/Alamy If you resort to mentioning Adolf Hitler, some say, you have lost the argument. If you resort to sequencing Hitler’s DNA to try to get more eyeballs for your TV channel, I would say you have just plain lost it. And yet the…
November 12, 2025 2 min read See Photos of the Northern Lights That Dazzled the U.S. A severe geomagnetic storm brought spectacular auroras to much of the U.S. on Tuesday night By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson The aurora borealis glows above rural Monroe County near Bloomington, Ind., on November 12, 2025. Jeremy Hogan/Getty…
