Kiruna’s church went for a walk in August 2025, at half a kilometre an hour, on 224 wheels. The trip took two days and included a daily stop for fika, the Swedish afternoon coffee break, because some ...
A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the telescope work. It is now the thing that ...
Opportunity self-portraits from January 2014, left, and March 2014 show how wind removed much of the dust from the rover’s solar panels. These images postdate the first dust-devil photograph and do ...
Placing concrete in a block at the mid-section of the dam, an eight-cubic-yard bucket handled by an overhead cableway. Bureau of Reclamation photograph via the US National Archives (NARA 293921), ...
A possum in Key Largo is walking around wearing a tracking collar that costs about as much as a decent pair of boots, and everyone involved has a fair idea how her story ends. She was lured into a ...
An ice cave on Earth, used here as a representative image of a water reservoir hidden beneath thick ice. It does not show Ganymede, its surface or its subsurface ocean. Photo by Han-Chieh Lee on ...
The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
A U.S. Air Force C-119J Flying Boxcar recovers a CORONA capsule in mid-air. Discoverer 13 was not caught this way; its capsule came down in the sea. U.S. Air Force photo 040314-O-9999R-001, public ...
The experiment at Oregon State University’s research farm in Corvallis was set up like a fair fight. Two groups of weaned Polypay lambs, matched and weighed. Two pastures side by side: one open to the ...
Push pieces of a living red encrusting sponge through a fine mesh and the animal disappears into a cloudy suspension of cells. Thousands of tiny bodies settle across the bottom of the dish, separated ...
Ask most people what Earth is made of and, somewhere in the back of the mind, the answer is water. We picture the blue planet, the oceans wrapping most of the globe, and we quietly file water under ...
In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...
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