Driving in Abu Dhabi these days feels like you’re being watched, but not in the oppressive way you might anticipate. If you’re driving down Sheikh Zayed Road on a Tuesday afternoon, there aren’t any ...

Superconductors have been kept in a sort of scientific cold storage for over a century. The first one, a wire made of solid mercury, was found in 1911 in a quiet Dutch laboratory where Heike ...

I first became aware of it when I was in line at a pharmacy in late winter and the woman in front of me asked, almost in a whisper, if her injection had arrived yet. The chemist gave a headshake. She ...

Beyond Neptune, a tiny, frozen body is floating in the darkness and has, in defiance of all logic, developed an atmosphere. In January 2024, Japanese astronomers nearly unintentionally caught it by ...

The numbers, rather than a press release, were the first indication that something was off. Earlier this year, cybersecurity analysts monitoring traffic into Saudi Arabia’s networks began to notice ...

When I first learned about self-healing concrete, I thought it was marketing. There’s a certain ring to the phrase that appears in glossy depictions of future cities. However, it is more difficult to ...

For the majority of human history, the typical response to the question “can we predict earthquakes” has been a quiet, somewhat ashamed “no.” Folklore about restless dogs and headaches prior to ...

For the majority of us, Saturn’s rings have always seemed to be a part of the solar system’s permanent furniture, existing unaltered since the beginning. They appear antiquated. They appear content.

If the researchers are correct, a tiny bright patch close to a lunar crater’s edge has been sitting quietly in plain sight for sixty years. A smudge in a high-resolution image captured by NASA’s ...

The fact that scientists can extract a hitherto unidentified animal from one of the least visited locations on Earth—six and a half kilometers below the Pacific surface—and discover a piece of soda ...