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The museum, which started in New York and hasn’t had a permanent exhibition space in several years, depicts the history and influence of U.S. financial institutions Ryley Graham | Correspondent July 2, 2026 5:28 p.m. The “Alexander Hamilton Experience” features an A.I.-generated Hamilton and artifacts from the founding of the U.S. financial system. Museum of…
English How does Europe study the Sun? Discover the missions revealing the secrets of our closest star, from SOHO and Solar Orbiter to Proba-3, which is creating artificial solar eclipses in space to unlock new insights into the Sun’s mysterious corona. Featuring ESA Reserve Astronaut Sara García Alonso. ESA is getting ready for three European…
This 1.7-gigapixel image of a field of stars in the constellation Lupus showcases the Rubin Observatory’s unprecedented view of the universe. The faint, glowing clouds spread across this image are galactic cirrus: clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen in the foreground of the Milky Way. NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory /…
The Planetary Society’s Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) Grants provide funding to innovation projects that advance space science and exploration. The 2023 round of STEP Grants awarded $50,000 USD to a team led by Dr. Andrew Palmer of the Florida Institute of Technology to study deep-space agriculture to address the challenge of…
Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars. These are not regular stars busy smashing atoms in their cores, but the ultra-dense remains of Sun-like stars that have undergone their death sequences – puffing up into enormous red giants before shedding…
The ability to focus is not unique to humans or even to primates. Birds, reptiles, and even fish can direct their attention at a narrow target, filtering out peripheral distractions. This ability has existed for at least hundreds of millions of years, and yet it’s unclear exactly which parts of the brain make it happen….