Smithsonian Magazine: Twice a day, seven days a week, from February to November for the past four years, two researchers have stepped outside a research station at the South Pole and walked nearly a mile in darkness to the South Pole Telescope. Their goal, trying to solve possibly the greatest riddle in the universe: what is most of it made of?
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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