Science has long flirted with the idea of remaking humanity, yet only in the past decade has that notion crossed from speculative fiction into tangible laboratories. The latest breakthrough, reported by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, shows the…
Few experiments in modern physics provoke as much wonder and confusion as the delayed-choice quantum eraser. Conducted in 1999 by Yoon-Ho Kim and colleagues, it seemed to suggest that decisions made in the present could ripple backwards in time, altering…
NASA has recently announced what many are calling a watershed moment: detections of life-signs on Mars. The rhetoric is stirring. Headlines speak of “evidence”, “ancient biology”, “microbial traces”, phrases that evoke everything from science fiction to spiritual awe. For…
Among the countless bodies that populate our Solar System, there is one that continues to puzzle astronomers and quietly defy expectations: Phobos, the larger and innermost moon of Mars. At first glance, it looks unremarkable, a small, irregular lump…