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The Arabian Peninsula and the sky have always had an unusual relationship. People here looked up because they had to,…
Uranus seemed to be the planet that astronomers courteously overlooked for the majority of my life. After Voyager 2 passed…
When I first learned about self-healing concrete, I thought it was marketing. There’s a certain ring to the phrase that…
Beyond Neptune, a tiny, frozen body is floating in the darkness and has, in defiance of all logic, developed an…
Superconductors have been kept in a sort of scientific cold storage for over a century. The first one, a wire…
For the majority of us, Saturn’s rings have always seemed to be a part of the solar system’s permanent furniture,…
The sheer improbability of what the UAE has accomplished begins to feel almost surreal at a certain point, somewhere between…
In the same way that meteorologists monitor hurricane swells, a cabinet of forecasters in Boulder, Colorado, keeps an eye on…
It is difficult to ignore how frequently the climate debate returns to the same unsolvable question: what will happen if…
On January 30, just before dawn, water started flowing through pipes the size of tiny subway tunnels in the pine…