General A Lake Beneath a Continent of Ice A Lake Beneath a Continent of Ice Antarctica hides landscapes. Mountains rise beneath ice sheets, valleys cut through bedrock, and…
General The Dinosaur That Looked Like a Weapon The Dinosaur That Looked Like a Weapon Some dinosaurs are easy to understand at first glance. Tyrannosaurus rex had a…
General Geometry in the Darkness: The Seafloor Mystery of Paleodictyon Geometry in the Darkness: The Seafloor Mystery of Paleodictyon The deep ocean is filled with shapes created by life. Worms…
General The signal hidden inside a printout The signal hidden inside a printout On August 15, 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio detected something unusual. The telescope…
General A Predator That Looked Like It Was Built From Metal A Predator That Looked Like It Was Built From Metal Long before sharks became icons of ocean fear, another predator…
General A Predator That Refuses To Be Simple A Predator That Refuses To Be Simple Spinosaurus is one of the strangest famous dinosaurs ever discovered. It was huge….
General A Frozen Moon With a Hidden Ocean A Frozen Moon With a Hidden Ocean At first glance, Europa looks dead. A frozen moon orbiting Jupiter: But beneath…
General A visitor from outside the solar system A visitor from outside the solar system Most comets belong to our solar system. They orbit the Sun, return over…
General A skull that almost never survives A skull that almost never survives Stegosaurs are famous because of their plates. But their skulls? That is where the…
General A familiar shape in an alien place A familiar shape in an alien place NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured an image on Mars that looks weirdly familiar….