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The International Space Station (ISS), in Earth orbit at hundreds of kilometers altitude, is not perfectly airtight. Every day, the cabin loses a minute how much air, carefully controlled so that a viable atmospheric pressure can be maintained, and to identify leaks. Now the last one just happened, just two …

While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they are actually so much more than that. They help us deepen things, feed trees nitrogen, play an enormous role in cycling the earth’s nutrients, and survive extreme extremes. Recently, we discovered some of these incredibly tough and thin packages of life …

There’s a lot going on in the center of our galaxy. The core of the Milky Way is home to a supermassive black hole as massive as 4 million Suns named Sagittarius A *, and the surrounding environment is intense. Blowing from this region is a nuclear galactic wind. It …

Honey seems to be a preference for cough or cold symptoms instead of antibiotics and over-the-counter medications, according to a new systematic review that looked at the results of 14 previous studies – but the conclusions may not be as clear-cut. when they first appear. “Honey is a commonly used …

A giant float of floating rocks, ejected from an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean, drifted thousands of miles across the waves. Eventually it made it all the way to Australia, and then embarked on a new project: revitalizing the world’s largest (and highly endangered) coral reef system. This unlikely …