From ski jumps and sliding bobsleds to engineering snow, here are 5 essential reads on the science of the Winter Olympics

Thousands of the world’s best athletes will flock to Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy in February 2026 for the 25th ...
SpaceNews

NASA selects two Earth science missions for development

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.
Live Science

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one — and we finally know why

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn’s second stage reignites

The debate goes back at least 15 years, to the early discussions around the design of the heavy lift rocket. The first stage, of course, would be fully reusable. But what about the upper stage of New ...
Quanta Magazine

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...