Imagine being able to erase genetic diseases with a single edit. Or giving a child the genetic traits you’ve always dreamed of—higher intelligence, stronger immunity, even different eye color. It...
For decades, textbooks taught us a neat answer: the Milky Way spans about 100,000 light-years across. Case closed, right? Not so fast. What if that number you’ve heard your whole...
We’ve all seen the movie scenes—massive explosions rattle entire mountain ranges, shockwaves ripple through the earth, and somewhere, seismic alarms start blaring. Dramatic? Absolutely. Scientifically accurate? Not even close. But...
You’ve probably heard it somewhere: “The solstice is the longest (or shortest) day of the year.” But have you ever wondered—what about the days right before and after? Are they...
One spring morning, I stood in my backyard staring at the bare twine I had hung for my hops. Nothing was climbing it. The young shoots just spiraled aimlessly at...
It sounds like something straight out of science fiction: seeing an individual atom. A single building block of matter, so small that millions would fit across the width of a...
When you hear “black hole,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably a strange, mysterious void… maybe even the idea of things being swallowed forever into an inescapable...