There is a stretch of water between two small Dodecanese islands, Karpathos and Kasos, that every ship moving between the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean has had to think about for as long as there have been ships to think with. A joint survey by the Greek...
If you've only read the headlines, you'd think the Arctic is on a one-way slide to zero. Mid-July 2026 sits at roughly 4.28 million km² of sea ice, per NSIDC's Charctic — about 540,000 km² under the 1991–2020 median, and well outside the 1979–2010...
The early universe was not supposed to have this much architecture. JWST has identified a barred spiral galaxy, M1149-BSG-z5, at a photometric redshift of 5.102. That places the light we see from it in a cosmos roughly 1.2 billion years old. The galaxy’s effective...