Scientists May Have Just Outwitted COVID’s Endless Mutations
The virus that upended the world in 2020 is still playing its favorite game: mutation roulette. Every time scientists craft a treatment, SARS-CoV-2 mutates just enough to escape. Most pandemic-era antibody therapies are now about as useful as a floppy disk in the age...
Venus May Be a Death Trap, but Scientists Are Sending a Probe Anyway
Venus is the planetary equivalent of a locked biohazard lab, with sulfuric acid clouds thick enough to melt optimism. Any sane organism would avoid it. Instead, scientists are planning to send a probe straight into the inferno—because why not? Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, a...
Hubble Spots a Cosmic Menage à Trois in the Kuiper Belt—And It Changes Everything
The three-body problem has haunted mathematicians for centuries. Predicting how three gravitationally entangled objects move is a nightmare of chaotic physics, famously explored in the novel-turned-Netflix-show *The Three-Body Problem.* But out in the icy void of the...
