Sign up for Slatest to receive the most in-depth analysis, reviews, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Do you have any questions about Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, I am a public official who works with local schools. A … Read more
A $4.3 billion space telescope that Donald Trump tried to destroy will lift off from Florida early Sunday, as NASA embarks on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survived two rounds of proposed budget cuts by the White House and will embark … Read more
Share this article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. New research suggests that every time we access information, the way we remember it can influence how the brain represents it the next time. We tend to think of memory as something stored in the brain, ready to be … Read more
An incomplete fossilized skull that has remained in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since the 19th century has turned out to represent a previously unrecognized species of glyptodont (genus Glyptotherium) that once roamed South America. Paleoindians hunting a glyptodont, a relative of the armadillo that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. By … Read more
A massive SpaceX rocket is just days away from launching NASA’s next big observatory into space: the Roman Space Telescope. But if you’re hoping to watch it live online, you’ll have to get up pretty early on Sunday (August 30) or you’ll miss it. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope, named after the late NASA astronomer Nancy … Read more
2026-08-28T23:33:38.793Z Roman is ready for release! The three first-stage boosters of the Falcon Heavy rocket that will launch NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on August 30, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX) NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is officially “ready” for launch! NASA made the announcement this afternoon (August 28), after concluding the mission’s Launch … Read more
Is there life on Mars? That’s the wrong question. Every time scientists from NASA, the European Space Agency or any other terrestrial organization bring news from Mars about new discoveries in the search for evidence of life on the fourth planet, I feel a little annoyed that the attention of the general population is focused … Read more
On April 5, 2024, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Tewksbury, New Jersey. The tremor caught about 42 million people from Virginia to Maine by surprise; The east coast is certainly not known for its seismic activity. Now, researchers have finally discovered where this strange earthquake came from and its origin was not what they expected. … Read more
See photos from last night’s stunning partial lunar eclipse The Washington PostPHOTOS: Moon appears orange due to partial lunar eclipse WLWTFOX 11 viewers weigh in with photos and video of ‘blood moon’ eclipse WLUKA’s near-total lunar eclipse will turn the moon red over Colorado. Here’s how to watch the show. The Colorado SunPerfect conditions Thursday … Read more
The pioneering computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra, winner of the 1972 A.M. Turing Award and inventor of one of the most iconic algorithms in all of computing, was nothing if not opinionated. Certain programming languages drew his ire, for example: He once dubbed Fortran “the infantile disorder” and stated that “the use of COBOL cripples the … Read more