Matias A. Loewy, Knowable Magazine In the late 1950s, dentist and U.S. Navy Captain Kirk C. Hoerman, then a young man in his 30s, attempted to answer a bold question:
One of the new benthic landers is lowered into the Gulf of Mexico via a system of winches and safety lines. Once released, the autonomous platform sinks at a carefully calculated
An artist’s rendering of a pantheon of planets similar to Earth NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech Though the James Webb Space Telescope launched only two years ago, NASA already has
Olympic runners compete during the 10,000 meters race in Tokyo. In ancient times, running was likely used to push animals to exhaustion during hunting. Abbie Parr/Getty Images The coming Olympics
This functional connectivity map, a kind of “fingerprint” of the brain, displays how different regions interact with each other in 12-year-olds. The map was constructed from resting-state MRIs, where participants were
While scientists have seen colossal squid before—like this specimen examined by New Zealander researchers in 2014—their interactions have always been with animals that were either pulled from the depths, washed