In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world.
NASA’s Europa Clipper[1] began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship[2] achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space missions. China made headlines with the Chang’e 6 mission[3], which successfully returned samples from the far side...
Southern right whales[1] have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances[2]. Some of these whales may live to 150. This lifespan is almost double the 70-80 years they are conventionally believed to live.
Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun[1]. Several high-profile crimes[2] in recent years have involved this kind of homemade, or partially homemade, weapon.
Often called “ghost guns[3]” because they can be hard to trace,...
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the history of the Moon.
The three of us were all interested in the Moon, but from different perspectives: As a geophysicist[1], I thought about...