Technology

For centuries, Jupiter was a brilliant but featureless pearl in the telescope eyepiece. Today, thanks to intrepid robotic explorers, we have an album of this gas giant\’s portraits so detailed they reveal its turbulent soul. NASA\’s fleet of spacecraft has captured Jupiter from every vantage point—from heart-stoppingly close flybys to sweeping vistas billions of miles […]

In the heart of Earth’s coldest, driest desert—Antarctica—scientists have uncovered a surprising chronicle of life thriving far away in the world’s forests and savannas. By analyzing ancient air trapped in ice cores, researchers have discovered compelling new evidence that global plant growth has significantly accelerated over the last century, with the rate of increase speeding