Quanta Magazine

Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors

Rubin Observatory in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile. Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the Dark Matter ...

Port Wentworth residents near paper mill report concerning white dust

While longtime residents said they’ve seen the white powder on and off over the decades, they say it has been worse than ever ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Does the Experience of Beauty Show Up in the Brain? With Electrodes and a Museum Collection of Artifacts, These Neuroscientists Aim to Find Out

Researchers are tracing the brain and body’s response to aesthetic expression in search of a scientific value to art ...

A new book captures the history of dance in New York

Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City covers everything from the Lindy hop and West Side Story to breakdancing and ...