2025-07-18

Two Meteor Showers Are Peaking on the Same Night in July. How to Catch a Glimpse

The Alpha Capricornids and Southern delta Aquariids meteor showers are peaking on the same day in July. [...]

2025-07-17

Trump's defunding of NASA would be catastrophic

"This is probably the most uncertain future NASA has faced, maybe since the end of Apollo," Casey Dreier tells me over the phone. Dreier is the chief of space policy at The Planetary Society [...]

2025-07-17

Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory

Fanfic community craves familiarity much more than novelty—but reports greater enjoyment from novelty. [...]

2025-07-17

Someone paid $5.3 million for a piece of Mars

Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby's auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteori [...]

2025-07-17

How Android phones became an earthquake warning system

The system uses phones' accelerometers to trigger warnings ahead of the shaking. [...]

2025-07-17

Where Are All the AI Drugs?

In an industry where 90 percent of drug candidates fail before reaching the market, a handful of startups are betting everything on AI to beat the odds. [...]

2025-07-16

2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA feels like a real car, not a science experiment

Mercedes' new 800 V electric powertrain is ready for the public, and we've driven it. [...]

2025-07-16

Rough road to “energy dominance” after GOP kneecaps wind and solar

Experts argue that Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will increase costs for consumers. [...]

2025-07-16

Look Up at Night and You May See 2 Meteor Showers at Once

Peaking on the same day in July are the Alpha Capricornids and Southern delta Aquariids meteor showers. [...]