To handle an exponential growth in data, the metric system is getting its first update in three decades Based on the measuring system's new prefixes, Earth’s mass is about six ronnagrams. That’s a six followed by 27 zeroes. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images By...

After heating a gallium-zinc alloy to 350° C and letting it cool for 10 days, a variety of zinc snowflake shapes crystallized in the liquid gallium. S.A. Idrus-Saidi et al/Science 2022 By Nikk Ogasa December 8, 2022 at 2:00 pm Look closely at a snowflake, and you’ll...

Taking the stairs is one way to boost the intensity of day-to-day activities like errands. For people who don’t exercise, such brief vigorous actions were linked to a lower risk of death compared with those whose days didn’t include these activity bursts. Kentaroo...

In the 1970s, scientists measured the speed of light: 299,792,456 meters per second. Fifty years later, they continue putting light through its paces. Eduard Muzhevskyi/Science Photo Library/Getty By Nikk Ogasa December 9, 2022 at 7:00 am A New Figure for the Cosmic...