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China Caught a Falling Rocket in a Net at Sea — and the Space Race Just Got a Lot More Interesting
On the morning of July 10, 2026, over the South China Sea, the first stage of a Long March 10B rocket fell back through the sky.
Scientists Made Time Run Backward in a Quantum System
Los Alamos National Laboratory has built a set of quantum tools that can make a physical system behave as though time is running in reverse.
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.
In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler captured the relationship between matter and space-time in two concise statements: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move.
A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it
Before the end of the month, a robotic spacecraft will launch on an unprecedented rescue mission. Its target is NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a
The Last Astronomers. Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field
One afternoon in April, Cecilia Garraffo sat at the head of a conference room table in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and looked out at what might be
El Niño Has Begun. It May Become the Strongest This Century
After clearing a spring forecasting hurdle, scientists see growing odds of a powerful climate event that could disrupt weather worldwide In March, Nat Johnson, a
New NIH Security Rules for Genomic Data Sets Are Slowing Research, Prompting Workarounds
Data security experts say increased oversight is needed, but researchers are struggling to comply In the spring of 2025, Andrew Lynn, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist
Reading the Moon Like a Book — For the First Time
It might seem remarkable that a question as basic as "what is the Moon made of, and where?" remains unanswered.
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Every time this question comes up in particle physics, it quickly becomes less straightforward than it first appears. At first glance, the Standard Model seems
Do animals perceive time differently from humans?
Science spoke with Ishan Singhal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, whose team is developing a new framework—called “timescapes”—to understand how nonhuman animals