Stories by dnetesn

5B light years across–the largest feature in the universe

Our own oasis of life in the cosmos is blue, but will others be?

Astronomers discover a tenth transiting “Tatooine”

Why Your Brain Seems Mostly Dormant: Compromise Between Efficiency and Ability

Ancient mammoth remains found in Switzerland

Graphs That Showed Landmark Discoveries but Were Later Debunked

The Curious Case of Europe's Peat Bog Bodies

Jon Stewart Signs Off from ‘Daily Show’ with Wit and Sincerity

At the Universal Congress of Esperanto

From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language

World's quietest gas lets physicists hear faint quantum effects

The Color White in Western Culture

Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Muscle and a Black Heart

Conjuring a Neutron Star from a Nanowire

Searching Cuba for the world’s smallest bird

Physicists discovered one type of Higgs boson and now they’re looking for more

Scientists curve nanoparticle sheets into complex forms

A Riot of Color Lurking in the Amazon

Microsoft describes hard-to-mimic authentication gesture