Article URL: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649813 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Friday, Jan. 16, 2026: See our latest news and updates on NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket rollout to the launch pad....
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/maggots-incredibly-efficient-source-protein-may-make-them-next-superfood-humans-180987847/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
Decades of human activity have left “irreversible damage” to the planet’s water supply, a new report warns....
Is ageing a natural stage of life to be honoured or a biological flaw that humanity should overcome?...
Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-far-side-had-it-all-wrong-cows-really-can-use-sophisticated-tools-1262026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681153 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-alcatraz-21302218.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674433 Points: 20 # Comments: 1...
The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate...
Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live....
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-can-now-describe-a-universe-that-has-dark-energy-20260114/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690295 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
https://www.tiktok.com/@recursecenter/video/7597943894319369... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712547 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/01/15/an-unfolding-scientific-revolution-in-cosmology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641007 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace....
This past week in San Francisco, thousands gathered outside of an aquarium to celebrate one of its residents, an alligator named Claude who died in December....
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659550 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Folding_NASA_Experience_into_an_Origamist%E2%80%99s_Toolkit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658003 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation....
Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors....
i've been working with healthcare/biobank data and keep thinking about what "data moats" mean now that llms can ingest anything. some a16z piece from 2019 said moats were eroding — now the question se...