When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it represented humanity’s first significant foray into the cosmos. Our imagination was…
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Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine,…
The human face is special. It is simultaneously public and personal. Our faces reveal sensitive information about us: who we…
In 2020, China’s Chang’e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of Moon rock and soil and brought it back…
Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot.…
Volcanic eruptions cannot be predicted with 100 per cent certainty. However, details about an upcoming eruption can be estimated using…
In March 2022, the author of node-ipc, a software library with over a million weekly downloads, deliberately broke their code. If the code…
Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments around the world,…
At first glance, it’s hard to see what gold, iron, lead, arsenic, silver, platinum and tin have in common. A…
In September, the Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram is faltering in its bid to keep up with TikTok, the wildly popular Chinese-owned…