Clara Moskowitz
Scientific American
New York, NY, United States
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Milky Way Census Shows Stars Take Varied Paths
The Gaia satellite is making the most detailed and complete map of the stars in our galaxy → Read More
Are the James Webb Space Telescope’s Pictures ‘Real’?
As light travels through space, it gets stretched by the expansion of the universe. This is why many of the most distant objects shine in infrared light, which is longer in wavelength than visible light. We can't see this ancient light with our eyes, but the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to capture it, revealing some of the first galaxies ever to form. Credit: Jen Christiansen… → Read More
The Best of JWST’s Cosmic Portraits
These new views of familiar space sights reveal details never before seen → Read More
How JWST Is Changing Our View of the Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has sparked a new era in astronomy → Read More
See How Scientists Put Together the Complete Human Genome
For the first time, researchers have sequenced all 3,117,275,501 bases of our genetic code → Read More
Wildfires Followed by Severe Rain Will Become More Common
Graphics show how the two weather extremes will more often pair up → Read More
How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life
A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight → Read More
How Skin Cancer Rates Vary across the Globe
This leading cancer affects some populations and regions much more than others → Read More
Colonialism Casts a Shadow on Fossil Science
Paleontologists from a small number of countries control much of the world’s fossil data → Read More
How Measuring Time Shaped History
From Neolithic constructions to atomic clocks, how humans measure time reveals what we value most → Read More
What makes Earth unique?
Several factors make Earth unique given what scientists know about the thousands of planets discovered to date. → Read More
Climate Change Drives Escalating Drought
The past two decades have seen some of the most extreme dry periods in U.S. history → Read More
The Art of Mathematics in Chalk
A photography project reveals the allure of equations in mathematicians’ blackboard work → Read More
Martian Satellite Photos Show Dynamic Planet
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter celebrated its 15th year circling Mars → Read More
Unprecedented 3-D view inside Animal Mummies
X-ray scans of ancient Egyptian cat, bird and snake mummies show details never seen before → Read More
Melting Candy Gives Mathematicians Insight into How Some Landscapes Form
Researchers dissolved a sugary treat underwater to understand the origin of spiky rock forests → Read More
Antimatter Discovery Reveals Clues about the Universe’s Beginning
New evidence from neutrinos points to one of several theories about why the cosmos is made of matter and not antimatter → Read More
Milky Way Dark Matter Signals in Doubt after Controversial New Papers
New analyses question whether mysterious gamma-ray and x-ray light in the galaxy actually stems from an invisible mass → Read More
New Measurement Aims to Solve Neutrino Mystery
A new finding limits how much the bizarre particle can weigh, shedding light on a physics quandary → Read More
Come One, Come All: Building a Moon Village
Humanity first went to the moon to make a point. Now it’s time to overcome rivalries and pitch in together → Read More