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Space baby!

My newborn grandson, Vittorio, is a high-tech futuristic child. (Actually, he’s got a little bit of jaundice and is being treated with light therapy, in addition to being a cool baby from the future.)

Pharyngula · EN

Beverly Whipple Has Died. She Introduced the G-Spot to the Mainstream.

Dr. Whipple studied the female erogenous zone and, with collaborators, wrote a best seller about women’s sexuality. She was 85.

NYT Science · EN

Typhoons batter East Asia as El Niño makes Pacific 'burn with fever'

Even for countries where typhoons are a way of life, the last few months have brought unusually wild weather.

BBC Science · EN

Why Do People Burn Effigies of Guy Fawkes on November 5?

Bonfire Night marks a foiled plot from 1605, but for most of its history the figure on top of the fire wasn’t Fawkes.

Mental Floss · EN

The Most Popular Baby Name in Every State in 2026, Mapped

Curious what parents in your state are naming their newborns? Check out BabyCenter’s map of the most popular baby names across America in 2026.

Mental Floss · EN

The Real-Life Gilded Age Party That Changed New York Society Forever

The extravagant ball had a lasting effect. HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ takes inspiration from the real-life event in its season 1 finale.

Mental Floss · EN

The Best College Towns in America, Ranked

Discover the best college towns in America according to WalletHub’s new study. See which cities ranked #1 for student life, affordability, and career success.

Mental Floss · EN

The Living Museum in Queens, New York

Tucked inside a building on the grounds of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, the Living Museum is a collection of artists’ work that feels nothing like a conventional museum. Established in 1983, it is a working creative space where psychiatric patients can create paintings, sculptures, installations, and mixed-media works. Artwork fills walls, rooms, and exhibition spaces, while individual artists can maintain their own studios and develop work alongside one another. There is even a music studio where albums have been recorded and are available for purchase in the museum store, along with pat

Atlas Obscura · EN

Actually, You Can Go Back to Constantinople. A Landmark Exhibition Reconstructs the Imperial City With 1,600 Years of Treasures From Byzantine and Ottoman Times

"Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires" at London's Victoria and Albert Museum tracks the storied city's evolution from a 4th-century capital to a bustling 19th-century metropolis—hippodromes, bathhouses and all

Smithsonian Magazine · EN

It's Not Just You: Some Fast-Flying Birds Also Get Jet Lag

A new study finds that Manx shearwaters fly so fast that their internal clocks get out of sync with local time. These jet lag-like time shifts confuse their sun-based compasses, causing them to become a bit disoriented and fly slightly off course

Smithsonian Magazine · EN

Famed Iron Age king was actually a woman

Meet Verica, ancient Rome's 'barbarian femme fatale.' The post Famed Iron Age king was actually a woman appeared first on Popular Science .

Popular Science · EN

Game Theory Helps SETI Search for Alien Civilizations

SETI can be more effective the more the targets in the search are refined. SETI's newest survey effort uses game theory to inform its search. It's based on the idea that other ETIs would almost certainly use the transit method to detect habitable worlds like Earth.

Universe Today · EN

China Unveils Their Plan for a Crewed Moon Landing

Yesterday, on November 3rd, the deputy chief designer of China's crewed space program and chief designer of the lunar exploration program (Wang Xiang) unveiled an official statement detailing its [plans for a crewed mission to the Moon](https://english.spacechina.com/n17212/c4744561/content.html).

Universe Today · EN

NASA Shares Plans to Accelerate Artemis, Return to Moon

In an update on Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders shared the agency’s path to returning Americans to the lunar surface in 2028. Agency leadership provided updates on the previously announced acceleration plans for the Artemis program, advancing toward the agency’s Artemis III test flight in 2027 and Artemis IV Moon […]

NASA Breaking News · EN

NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research

On Wednesday, NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This high-performance, highly adaptable research platform is designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies. The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore […]

NASA Breaking News · EN

Upcoming Marvel movies and TV shows: Avengers: Doomsday, Secret Wars, X-Men & more

The MCU’s Multiverse Saga is nearly over, but there are plenty more Marvel movies and shows on the horizon.

Space.com · EN

Trump declares 'American space superiority for all eternity' in election night proclamation

President Trump has declared space a frontier for all humanity, asserting America's right to develop and settle the solar system under U.S. law.

Space.com · EN

On this day in space! Nov. 4, 2015: A rail-launched Super Strypi rocket carrying 13 baby satellites failed during its debut launch for the US Air Force

On Nov. 4, 2015, the United States Air Force launched an experimental Super Strypi rail-launched rocket carrying 13 tiny satellites, but it failed just after liftoff from Hawaii.

Space.com · EN

Scientists find the best evidence yet of potentially habitable volcanic vents on Mars

Magma and a possible environment for ancient life might be present on Mars in the region of a large volcano on the Red Planet.

Live Science · EN

Colorful 1,800-year-old belt buckle discovered in a Ukrainian forest may have belonged to a nomadic equestrian warrior

A Roman-era belt buckle discovered in a Ukrainian forest hints at the ancient conflict between the Romans and the Dacians.

Live Science · EN

Swift has fallen: NASA's 22-year-old space telescope burns up over Sumatra

The reentry of NASA's dead Swift space telescope is the end of an era for rapid-response space science.

Live Science · EN

First-of-its-kind planetary wreckage holds clues to our Solar System’s fate

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03537-7 Astronomers spot an unprecedented double disk of debris around a dead star.

Nature News · EN

British Iron Age ‘king’ who prompted Roman invasion was probably a woman

Verica, a British ruler who encouraged the Roman emperor Claudius to launch an invasion, may not have been the man historians thought he was

New Scientist · EN

Stunning collection of prehistoric engravings found in Spanish cave

A close examination of a frequently visited cave wall in Spain has revealed a spectacular assembly of rock art engravings thought to be at least 19,000 years old

New Scientist · EN