Brendan rides a horse through a sunlit forest as Prue stands beside her bicycle in Wildwood.

Wildwood’s Puppets Have Tiny Mechanical Bodies and a Hospital

A puppet hospital, spring-steel hands and animatable muscles: a look at the miniature engineering behind LAIKA’s Wildwood.

Four NASA leaders seated at the Artemis Acceleration briefing with a Moon graphic behind them

NASA’s 2028 Moon Landing Now Has Two Very Different Paths

NASA is keeping SpaceX and Blue Origin in contention for its first Artemis Moon landing. Their two flight plans could not be more different.

Catherine Breed wearing a wetsuit, swim cap and goggles aboard her support boat, with the ocean behind her.

She Swam Nearly 900 Miles. Sewage Kept Her Finish Offshore

Catherine Breed completed a nearly 900-mile staged swim down California on October 19. Sewage pollution near the border shaped her offshore finish.

Louis Daguerre’s view of Boulevard du Temple, with a standing customer and a smaller shoeshiner figure near the lower-left street corner.

Finding Where Two Strangers Stood in This 1838 Photo Took Two Years

Two tiny figures in Louis Daguerre’s famous 1838 photograph sent filmmakers on a two-year hunt through old maps and modern 3D scans. Paris now marks their spot.

Composite promo image of Bryce Harper in a Phillies uniform beside the masked Doctor Doom.

Doomsday’s Baseball Promo Had Viewers Asking What Was Actually in the Movie

Reed Richards takes the mound in Marvel’s World Series crossover, while real MLB stars leave some viewers wondering which bits belong in Doomsday.

A grizzly bear at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center walks past a fallen log, rocks and yellow flowers.

A Trash Can Was Designed to Keep Bears Out. Kobuk Figured Out the Latch.

A guarded lever was meant to keep bear paws out. Kobuk used his claws and a twist of his body to open it, revealing the ingenuity behind bear-resistant gear tests.

Northwestern University positron-trap apparatus recessed into a laboratory floor, surrounded by metal tubing, cables and support frames.

A Single Antimatter Particle Has Spent Months in a Trap It Never Touches

A single positron has survived months in a lab without touching its surroundings. Now physicists can control its quantum jumps.

James Webb infrared panorama of N159 showing blue ionized bubbles, orange clouds, dark molecular filaments and thousands of stars

Webb’s New N159 Panorama Catches a Stellar Nursery at Every Stage of Birth

Webb’s new N159 panorama reveals ionized bubbles, cold molecular filaments and generations of young stars forming across one neighboring-galaxy nursery.

Sea lions swim among schooling fish above a humpback whale’s back in an underwater camera view.

A Whale-Mounted Camera Caught Sea Lions Chasing Fish Across Its Back

Whale-mounted cameras reveal sea lions pursuing escaped anchovies across a humpback’s back, and new research suggests the crowded hunt may help whales feed faster.

A mustached man in a dark jacket looks to his left outdoors in daylight in A24’s Slayground teaser.

A24’s Slayground Turns a Haunted-House Employee Into a Murder Suspect

Jeremy Saulnier’s new A24 thriller follows a scare actor who wakes beside his dead coworkers, cannot remember the night and faces a statewide manhunt.

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