The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around bright lanterns in backyards and at campsites. The insects, with their veil-like wings, are easily distracted from their natural preoccupation with sipping on flower nectar, avoiding predatory bats, and reproducing. Small clutches of the eggs they lay […]
Read MoreIn June a four-person crew will enter a hangar at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and spend one year inside a 3D printed building. Made of a slurry that—before it dried—looked like neatly laid lines of soft-serve ice cream, Mars Dune Alpha has crew quarters, shared living space, and dedicated areas for administering […]
Read MoreThis story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In one corner, there is the agile climber with steak-knife-like horns. In the other is America’s largest wild sheep. They are locked in one-sided combat in the mountains of the US West, scientists have found, in a battle over resources […]
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