The Dark Side of The Starry Night
Hollywood loves a remake. Reboots are the norm there. Success? Mixed bag. Let’s not talk about Nightmare on Elm Street ever again. Painting? Not...
Skyroot aims to ignite history this Saturday
An Indian private rocket is about to take a real shot at the sky. Early Saturday morning, July 18. You can actually watch it...
Parasites, Taco Bell, and Lettuce From Hell
It’s Cyclospora cayetanensis.
A mouthful of a name for something that wreaks havoc on your gut. Over 1,600 people in five states are now linked...
The heat sticks around
Day fourteen
Two weeks. Fourteen days of sun. No let-up in sight. The UK is still baking, and honestly? We’re just getting used to the...
Moon on the edge
We’re back. The Moon is creeping into view, barely visible but undeniably there. It’s that tricky time between the new dark and the bright...
She Was a Woman. She Worked With Fire.
The Upton Lovell Shamans has a beard. In museum diorums anyway.
It’s the standard picture for a 4,000 year old bronze age metalworker and spiritual...
The sun doesn’t rest anymore
Half of July is gone. The sky is stubborn.
In southern England, we’ve logged nearly double our average sunshine. Southern and south-west pockets have soaked...
DNA wasn’t enough. Protein saved Homo erectus.
The family tree of humanity is a mess.
For decades we were told it was simple. Clean. A single trunk in Africa sprouting branches, one...
The New Tobacco Trap Is Invisible And It’s Working
It is quiet. Too quiet for a health crisis, maybe, but there it is.
Researchers are sounding the alarm on nicotine pouches among US teenagers...
AI Finds the Invisible MS Damage We Missed for Decades
It’s there.
It has always been there.
Standard MRI scans missed it.
Clinicians looked right past it.
For decades, multiple sclerosis research operated with half the picture. White...
Saving Reptiles in the Bog
The adders need a hand.
So do the slow worms.
And the common lizards, too. They aren’t exactly popular guests at garden parties, but they are...
NASA’s Fridge Is Freezing Atoms Into Weird New Shapes
A mini-fridge is floating on the International Space Station. It’s making trouble for reality. Or at least, it’s stretching it thin enough to see...
The Light-Day Paradox: Why Voyager 1’s Greatest Milestone Takes 50 Years
It’s been fifty years. Fifty years of flying.
Voyager 1 is tiny. About the size of a car, maybe. It launched in 1977 with a...
China’s First Rocket Recovery Just Happened. It Was A Net Catch.
China made history this Friday. Not with a speech, not with a flag waving in slow motion, but by catching a falling rocket stage...
Boxed Shapes. Weird Lights. More Files Opened.
The government dropped another batch of documents.
The fourth tranche, this time. They cover Unidentified Anomalous Phenomana—UAPs. Or UFOs, if you prefer the older term.
Defense...





































