Over two days in June, Emily Aguilar-Pine drove 2,500 kilometres from Bozeman, Montana, to Austin, Texas, with one of microbiology’s most coveted organisms in the back of her mother’s SUV. Inside some protective packaging, labelled ‘hopes and dreams’, was a small bottle containing about 30 millilitres of what looked like clear liquid, but that in
In the very first moments of the universe, matter didn’t exist as we know today. A millionth of a second or so after the big bang, the universe was a dense, hot soup scientists call quark-gluon plasma (QGP). For several years, particle colliders—which smash molecules together at nearly the speed of light—have been able to
The first time I saw it, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Shanghai Zoo was holding and caressing a mouse that had wandered into its enclosure. It wasn’t trying to eat it or chase it away. Instead, the gibbon treated the tiny rodent with remarkable gentleness. I
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from the series finale of “Raising Kanan” now streaming on Starz. The final curtain has closed on the hit 1990s-set crime series “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.” The show has been the origin story of Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis), who, by embracing the very business his drug-queenpin
Members of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team leave the closed Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan city, Hubei province, Jan. 11, 2020. Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 have focused on animals sold at the market. Noel Celis/AFP/via Getty Images hide title toggle title Noel Celis/AFP/via Getty Images Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., clashed with
NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday that they recently agreed to conduct second-stage hot-fire tests for the company’s New Glenn rocket at the B-2 test bed at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The addendum to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed earlier this month highlights NASA’s commitment to working together
