Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind these everyday miracles lies an unseen, sprawling web
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In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people[1] buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available[2], people started comparing their own DNA with that of the 14th-century German Jews, finding many
Volt Typhoon[1] is a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. The United States government and its primary global intelligence partners, known as the Five Eyes[2], issued a warning[3] on March 19, 2024, about the group’s activity targeting critical
Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant[1]. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will keep the Sun shining steadily for about 5 billion more years[2],
NASA’s Europa Clipper[1] spacecraft, headed to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon[2] Europa in October 2024, will carry a laser-etched message[3] that celebrates humanity’s connection to water. The message pays homage to past NASA missions that carried similar
The MV Dali, a 984-foot, 100,000-ton cargo ship, rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge[1] when leaving Baltimore harbor on March 26, 2024, causing a portion of the bridge to collapse.
In an interview, University of Michigan civil engineer Sherif El-Tawil
Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin[1] for horses associated with humans in the American Southwest and Great Plains.