Who Invented the Transistor?
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Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of astronomical wonders...
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All the NASA engineers and scientists need is a star on top of the telescope in the cleanroom....
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Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mello...
"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this."...
There are billions of dollars in it for companies able to kickstart mining operations, even if such returns are still years away....
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Nature, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03756-4 The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months....
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispers—and this year, it heard the most energeti...
Elon Musk's Neuralink startup develops brain-chip implants. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is planning to ramp up production of his Neuralink brain chips in 2026. Neuralink develops...
From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike anything I'd seen before....
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New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown....
2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months....
The shape of the universe is not something we often think about....
Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos....