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You didn’t need a telescope to appreciate the cosmos in 2024. With stunning global auroras, prolific meteor showers and a total solar eclipse witnessed by tens of millions of people, space came to Earth in style this year. But while […]

From these upper hip bones, researchers extracted an ancient genome of the bacteria that causes syphilis. Darío Ramirez The first historical account of syphilis dates to spring 1495, when a seemingly mysterious disease ravaged the soldiers in King Charles VIII

I could have been a tech entrepreneur, but my parents let me go to sleepovers. I could have been a billionaire, but I used to watch Saturday-morning cartoons. I could have been Vivek Ramaswamy, if not for the ways I’ve

Camille Claudel’s famous bronze sculpture The Age of Maturity depicts a young women being left behind by her lover, who walks ahead with an older woman. Lou Benoist / AFP via Getty Images A rare bronze sculpture by the French artist Camille

December 30, 2024 Congratulations to the individuals, projects, and publications that received AIA Awards. They will be formally recognized at the 2025 AIA Awards Ceremony, which will take place during the 126th Annual Meeting. We have contacted this year’s winners

Of all the planets in our solar system, Saturn is by far the mooniest. And that’s saying a lot. Sure, we’re here in our corner with our single friend, The Moon™, but Neptune wanders the universe with 16 known companions,

Elon Musk spent Christmas Day online, in the thick of a particularly venomous culture war, one that would lead him to later make the un-Christmas-like demand of his critics to “take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the

The bald eagle is finally being recognized as America’s national bird. John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe via Getty Images The bald eagle is featured on American military insignia, currency, stamps and even the helmets of an NFL team. However, the

Sunspots, which are temporarily darkened areas on the surface of the sun, are the result of intense magnetic fields generated through the movement of materials within the sun. In other words, they can tell us indirectly about what’s happening within

Martin Van Buren in 1860.  Library of Congress When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a party” for himself. It was an