New Scientist4h
Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...
Lucy at 50: How the world’s most famous fossil was discovered
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...
Commercial Appeal15h
Kustoff, Cohen secure victory in respective U.S. House of Representatives races
Longtime incumbent Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen has once again secured the seat for Tennessee House District 9. With 60% of votes counted, Cohen had won 70% of the vote, once again handily defeating ...
Rosetta-Philae Probe: How Humans Touched Down on a Comet for the First Time
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
The New York Times13h
Climate and Environment
Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother, and her firstborn. To help their species continue, they’d have to navigate an increasingly dangerous ocean. As Americans ...