Four astronauts splash down on Earth after eight months in space

SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of Los Angeles on ...

Leap seconds help keep clocks synchronized, but their time may be over

If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even ...

Cozy Earth review: we tested the buzzy sleep brand. Here are its best – and worst – pieces

From bamboo sleep masks and sheet sets to waffle bath towels, these are some of the brand’s best products – and a few we really dislike ...

Is it possible to beam solar power from space to Earth? Virginia startup Overview Energy gets Pentagon funding for its 2028 targeting test

Collecting solar energy in space was never the biggest problem. Getting that power to the right place on Earth was. On ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Google Wants to Send Data Centers to Space—and Just Launched an Experimental Satellite to Test Whether Its Ambitious Plan Will Work

The tech giant aims to use the near-constant sunlight available in low-Earth orbit to power data centers. The experimental ...

North Korea Set Off a Nuke Under a Mountain. The Earth Hasn’t Stopped Shaking Since.

In the Hamgyong Mountains, located in northeastern North Korea, lies the relatively nondescript Mt. Mantap. At 7,234 feet ...
Earth.com

Simple blue light could make raw chicken safer, even from drug-resistant bacteria

A low-power violet-blue LED cut 64 strains of Campylobacter, a common food poisoning germ on raw chicken, by at least 99% in lab tests.
Earth.com

Drug testing could rely less on animals with a new lab device

A silicone chip grows human cell clumps under flowing fluid, then splits open to release them intact, an animal testing ...

Earth’s first animals may be 200 million years older than their fossils suggest

Animals seem to appear in the fossil record fairly suddenly, a little over half a billion years ago. Yet rocks can preserve ...

After 20,000 miles and a year of testing, these are the 8 trail running shoes that we keep recommending

8 Best trail running shoes—comfortable, versatile, grippy, and speedy—tested over thousands of rugged miles by our expert ...

Scotch Whisky Heads To Space As Scientists Test Ageing In Zero Gravity

The plan for the experiment, nicknamed "Space Puffin", is to launch the CubeSat in 2028 on a SpaceX supply mission to the ISS ...

Don't just end with 'It's true because it's written in the text.' I created regular test questions A and B for 'The Moai Speak'

I have created two types of regular test questions, A and B, for the 2nd-year junior high school Japanese textbook 'The Moai ...