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'We're not a competitor to fusion. We are fusion': Inside the race to harness unlimited solar power in spaceFeature Space-based solar power has the potential to meet Earth's energy needs many times over. Will it see the light of day?
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'They cannot compete with the prices that fish factories will pay': How demand for fish meal takes priority over feeding peopleBook excerpt In this excerpt from "Every Last Fish," author Rose George examines the deep-rooted problems of the regulations surrounding fish meal.
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Teenager's rare autoimmune disorder caused her to hallucinate a flying green dinosaurDiagnostic Dilemma Doctors ran many tests to uncover the cause of a teen girl's auditory and visual hallucinations.
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Multicolored 'mosaic' of mini farms surrounds Taiwan's largest river — Earth from spaceEarth from space A recent satellite photo shows a patchwork of tens of thousands of size-restricted farms tightly crammed into Taiwan's Yunlin County, which grows a majority of the island's food.
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'The back of her head had been removed by a single blow from a sharp blade': Archaeological clues are revealing the horrific lives and deaths of the people enslaved by VikingsBook excerpt In this excerpt from "The Sea-King and the Sorceress," author Neil Price looks at the lesser known lives of the people enslaved by Vikings: the thralls.
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Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before ColumbusAstonishing Artifacts This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.
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'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrivedArchaeologists and geographers have been trying to estimate the pre-1492 population of the Americas for decades. But it's difficult.
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'News reports tweaked the science to speak to contemporary anxieties': How Neanderthal extinction is a projection of our own, modern fearsBook excerpt In this excerpt from "Neanderthals Among Us," author Peter Sahlins looks at the way Neanderthal extinction theories are often engrained with our own societal fears.
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'Swamp-like colors' on the moon: NASA report reveals strange sights from Artemis II missionSpace Photo of the Week Astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission saw surprising "jaundiced yellow" and "swampy green" colors on the moon during their close lunar flyby, a new report reveals.
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