Perched in a tower atop a hill, Matthew Douglas climbs a staircase and emerges from a hatch on the roof, where a heavy glass ...

Blue Hill Observatory, the oldest continuously operating weather observatory in the U.S., records climate data using ...

The Acorn TV May 2026 slate includes the second annual Murder Mystery May, kicking off on Friday, May 1, with new series and ...

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For millennia, the concept of an omniscient God — a deity who knows every sparrow that falls, every thought that forms, and every star that burns across the vast expanse of the cosmos — has boggled ...

Jay Melosh informed me when I arrived at Purdue in 2018 that we had our own nearby impact structure, and shortly thereafter the Department went there on a field trip! This excited me greatly as I had ...

A team of physicists led by Professor Dong Eon Kim from POSTECH, working with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has made a breakthrough in understanding one of quantum mechanics’ most ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer reveals the expansion and shock patterns within RCW 86, a supernova observed by early astronomers in A.D. 185. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Fusion scientists have solved a long-standing mystery inside tokamaks, the donut-shaped machines designed to harness fusion energy. For years, experiments showed that escaping plasma particles hit one ...

Doug Irwin, the guitar constructor responsible for one of late rocker Jerry Garcia's most famed six-strings, has died. He was 76. His death was announced with a post to the Irwin Guitars page on ...

How the Great Pyramid was built has long been the subject of debate, with one theory positing that ramps were employed to construct it, though no physical evidence of them remains. One scientist ...

On the horizon for this year are Ann Leckie's latest, Neil Jordan's debut and more from Adrian Tchaikovsky. Exciting times, says our sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson Claire and her beacon-repair crew ...