Rubric 01
Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
61Science
When the Hunters Lived Inside Their Own Art
The Côa valley in Portugal is a dry, schist walled corridor that runs some 17 kilometres along a river, and it holds the largest open air collection of Palaeolithic rock art in the world. The engravings were first found...
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62Science
Virgin Galactic's 2027 Suborbital Flight Will Carry the First Dedicated Menstrual Fluid Study
Manju Bangalore was four years old when a visit to the Air and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, first opened the door to space. What she found there was not a rocket diagram but a person: Kalpana Chawla, the first...
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63Science
When a $94 Million Moon Mapper Spins Into the Dark
Every night the Moon reflects sunlight back at Earth, and hidden in that reflected light is a question nobody has fully answered: how much water sits on the lunar surface, and where. A small satellite built to answer it...
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64Science
Amelia Earhart's Plane May Be Closer to Discovery After 89 Years
For nearly nine decades, the fate of Amelia Earhart has lived in the space between a documented fact and an open question. She vanished in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world. 1] Her aircraft, a Lockheed...
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65Science
A Star's Chemical Fingerprint Finally Checks Out in a Planet's Air
The instrument that made this measurement possible was not built to hunt planets. The Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph, or IGRINS, splits infrared light into its component wavelengths at very high resolution the...
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66Science
When a Machine Learned to Look Both Ways
Bahdanau remembered doing translation exercises when he was learning English in school: to write each next word, he had to glance all around the source text to figure out what should come next. Source sentence on the...
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67Science
Chandra X-ray Census and Sonification of the Eagle Nebula
Census of a Familiar Portrait Before 2001, the Eagle Nebula was a picture. Its dark towers of cold gas and dust, roughly 6,500 light years away toward the constellation Serpens, had become one of the most recognizable...
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68Science
Dark Matter's Next Question: Particle, Wave, or Both
The phrase "discover dark matter" has quietly become obsolete among the people who study it. That is the uncomfortable conclusion a working cosmologist reaches after years of drafting language for US policymakers. The...
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69Science
Three Ghost Galaxies and the Case for Invisible Matter
The discovery of three galaxies nearly devoid of dark matter forces a choice: abandon the standard model of cosmology or accept that dark matter is a physical substance that can be separated from ordinary matter. The...
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70Science
The One Dial That Decides Whether a Meeting Works
Organizational psychologists have quietly turned the workplace meeting into a laboratory, and what they keep finding is almost embarrassing in its simplicity. One variable how much the person in charge talks swings the...
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71Science
The Brain Comes in Two Boxes
The standard account of brain development has been tidy to the point of suspicion. One early population of progenitor cells cells that have not yet chosen what to become divides, migrates, and lays down the forebrain,...
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72Science
A Voice Rebuilt From Thought Alone
A machine has read words directly out of a human brain and handed them back as speech not by tracking a twitching finger or a roving eye, but by listening to the electrical intent to speak itself. Casey Harrell has ALS,...
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