Science

An illustration of how a metal breaks light. Credit: Giuseppe Strangi and Federico Capasso For more than 500 years, humans have mastered the art of refracting light by forming glass into lenses, then bending or combining those lenses to enhance images and make them clearer as close-up as far-off. But …

Before August 20, Game Science’s Black Myth: Wukong was a virtually unknown project. 24 hours later, it was IGN’s biggest news story of the day, had been viewed more than 10 million times on the Chinese video site BiliBili, and received praise from entire internet. Game Science founder Feng Ji …

Air leak on the ISS forces oncoming astronauts to spend the weekend in the station’s Russian segment, while NASA fucks the source NASA astronauts identify a slight change in the air pressure of the space station cabin Because of space eruptions and operations, it took months to identify this as …

A small, soft space rock crashed on April 23, 2019 in Costa Rica. And it may have carried building blocks for life. The washing machine-sized clay fireball broke on before landing. Local people found sharks scattered between two villages, La Palmera and Aguas Zarcas. And while meteorites are rising everywhere …

Credit: Scripps Research Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered a molecule that can activate a natural immune-boosting protein called STING. The findings mark a significant advance in the field of oncology, as the STING protein is known for its strong antitumor properties. STING (short for Stimulator of INterferon Genes) marches …