Articles by

Jay Bennett

A foot fossil suggests a second early human relative lived alongside Lucy

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in...

Moss spores survived in space for 9 months

In an extraordinary display of biological resilience, moss spores survived for nine months outside the International Space...

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

About an hour after sunrise over the Mojave Desert of Southern California, NASA’s newest experimental supersonic jet...

The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the...

Uncovering Magnetism’s Mysterious Role in the Galaxy

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense...