The 28 Most Populous Cities in the U.S. Are All Sinking
Cities across the U.S., including inland ones such as Denver and Dallas, are settling into the earth, posing increased flooding risks and potentially damaging urban infrastructure
The Only Particle Collider in the U.S. Will Be Replaced with an Upgrade
What Is a Galaxy?
Science Jigsaw: Sunday, May 11, 2025
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Convergent ‘Cuteness’ Is Making Dogs and Cats Look Alike
Knitting’s Complex Shapes Explained in New Physics Model
Sinking Cities, Waving Cuttlefish and Falling Spacecraft
Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.
Inside the AI Competition That Decoded an Ancient Herculaneum Scroll
Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works
God Chatbots Offer Spiritual Insights on Demand. What Could Go Wrong?
Will Machines Ever Become Conscious?
Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Only Particle Collider in the U.S. Will Be Replaced with an Upgrade
Fitness Doesn’t Have to Be about Denial and Shame
Jupiter’s Cyclones, Amazon’s Satellites and T. rex Collagen
These Fungi Are Facing Extinction—Here’s Why That Matters
Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’
Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values
NASA Spent Billions to Bring Rocks Back from Mars. Trump Wants to Leave Them There
After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious
India and Pakistan Remind Us We Need to Stop the Risk of Nuclear War
The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world by taking our nuclear missiles off hair-trigger alert and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal
This Soviet Spacecraft Will Soon Crash-Land on Earth
Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains unknown
What Is a Galaxy?
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, and trying to define them is difficult
Zero Is Foundational to Modern Mathematics. But It Was Rejected for Centuries
Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today all mathematics is based on it
