Explanation: What color is the Moon? It depends on the night — and the time. Outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon on Earth, documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years
Credit: Pawel Kacperek/Getty One of the world’s top professional societies for scientists and engineers has retracted 1,417 conference papers in one go. The move was announced in a 28 October statement by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in New York City. It is the largest single bulk retraction issued by any scholarly
Under the harsh glare of overhead lights at a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, Lazarus II lay motionless. Dr. Robert E. Cornish, who’d asphyxiated the rangy white fox terrier with ether and nitrogen, watched the clock. Six minutes after the final heartbeat, the scientist gathered up the dog and strapped him to
Adapted from Spiced: Recipes Celebrating Spices from Around the World by Priya Mani. (Phaidon, US $54.95, 2026) Kimchi transforms in flavor and texture as it ferments. Image: Priya Mani. Kimchi / Baechu kimchi Makes: about 2 1/4 lb / 1 kg kimchi Preparation time: 30 minutes, plus 2 hours standing and 8–16 days fermenting Cooking
A family near Kalamazoo, Michagan was in for a surprise while cleaning out their grandfather’s basement. Amid the dusty storeroom clutter, the Paw Paw Township residents discovered a vintage, possibly live grenade from World War II apparently forgotten after decades in storage. Unsure what to do with their newfound, potentially deadly device, family members quickly
Nearly 237 million years ago, a spiky and toothy bottom dweller skulked the Late Triassic oceans that once covered present-day China. What sets this newly discovered giant salamander-sized prehistoric amphibian apart is not its impressive body–it’s that it lived in the ocean. The newly described Gerrothorax maritimus is the first example of a fully marine