Jacqueline Ortoleva is a Leverhulme early career research fellow at the University of Oxford, in England ...

Pascal Vrticka is an associate professor at the University of Essex in the U.K.

Maurizio Forte is professor of classical studies art at Duke University.

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It’s been a blistering year for the U.S. The first eight months of 2026 were the hottest such period ever recorded in the contiguous U.S. since at least 1895. That puts 2026 on track to being among ...

An unexplained high-energy neutrino detected three years ago could be linked to a primordial black hole, perhaps one more even unusual than previously thought ...

The nonprofit start-up Pioneer Labs claims to have made the first-ever “microbe for Mars.” Other experts aren’t so sure ...

But, with careful planning, some telltale indicators of rainbows and other optical phenomena can be seen. To be clear, none ...

Mathematicians love to collect elegant, profound questions that defy proof: the longer the holdout, the better. And one day ...

Brian Gallagher is a writer and editor. Are We Ready for Mars?, his first book, co-authored with Mark Shelhamer, comes out in October from Johns Hopkins University Press. You can follow him on X @bsga ...