A tribute to the star-charting mission you've never heard of
Gaia mapped billions of celestial objects over its lifetime, forming the most detailed star map scientists have to date.
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A tribute to the star-charting mission you've never heard of
Gaia mapped billions of celestial objects over its lifetime, forming the most detailed star map scientists have to date.
When the Central Dogma bends, will it break?
The discovery of a protein that seemingly contradicts a fundamental law of biology raises a question: how important are those laws anyway?
Why is a government agency selling small vials of human poop?
At-home gut microbiome tests are not as reliable as many would like them to be. A new standard from the US government’s National Institute of Standards and Technologies could finally change that.
Pluto isn’t a planet for the same reason whales aren’t fish
History plays a role in demarcating natural categories, from biological species to mineral kinds to planetary classification.
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