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Aylin Woodward

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ARTICLES BY AYLIN WOODWARD

Quantum data was sent over an ordinary telecom network with fiber-optic cables. (Image: Pixabay)

Scientists sent quantum messages a record distance over a traditional network

4 min read . 23 Apr 2025

A Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter taken in 2019. (NASA/ESA/A. Simon–Goddard Space Flight Center, and M.H. Wong–University of California, Berkeley)

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot isn’t as permanent as we thought

2 min read . 31 Dec 2024

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. (AP)

Historic NASA mission to Jupiter moon blasts off

2 min read . 15 Oct 2024

To safeguard future missions, the White House has called upon NASA to establish a unified time standard on the moon. (Pexels )

A new space mission: How to tell time on the moon

5 min read . 08 Aug 2024

A pyramid at Chichén Itzá, an ancient Mayan city in Mexico, where the DNA of children found in a cistern revealed that the culture once sacrificed boys in pairs.

How science is helping us understand human sacrifice

5 min read . 03 Jul 2024

Many archaeologists and anthropologists argue the shows promote theories that don’t represent a scientific consensus and shouldn’t be labeled as documentaries.

These Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them.

8 min read . 21 Jan 2024

Our circadian rhythms—the biological clocks inside our cells that time when we sleep and wake—are linked to countless genes.

Are You a Morning Person? You Might Want to Thank Your Neanderthal Genes.

4 min read . 14 Dec 2023

NASA Capsule Set to Deliver Rare Sample From Asteroid Bennu

NASA Capsule Set to Deliver Rare Sample From Asteroid Bennu

4 min read . 24 Sep 2023

Professor Jeremy DeSilva with a model of his brain at Dartmouth College in Hanover, (N.H. SIMON SIMARD FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)

Our big brains have shrunk. Scientists might know why.

5 min read . 09 Sep 2023

An illustration showing the frigid distant world Quaoar, orbiting in our solar system beyond Pluto, surrounded by its newly discovered ring, along with its moon Weywot. ESA (Photo: Reuters)

New ring discovered around small, icy world in our solar system

5 min read . 09 Feb 2023

Part of the ancient Maya city El Mirador in northern Guatemala that was detailed using light-detection and ranging equipment. (Photo: Reuters)

Vast Maya kingdom is revealed in Guatemalan jungle

3 min read . 31 Jan 2023

Lightning strikes are pictured during a thunderstorm (Photo: Reuters)

Lasers can guide dangerous lightning strikes to a safer path, study shows

4 min read . 18 Jan 2023

A technician adjusting an optic inside the preamplifier support structure. (Photo: AP)

Nuclear-fusion breakthrough accelerates quest to unlock limitless energy source

6 min read . 14 Dec 2022

The conflict in Ukraine is also hamstringing space agencies and satellite operators that had planned to launch satellites and telescopes aboard Soyuz rockets (Photo: Reuters)

War in Ukraine disrupts Russian-European Mars mission and other space ventures

4 min read . 21 Mar 2022

A file photo of flooded homes in Tuckerton, New Jersey, on 30 Oct after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the southern New Jersey coastline on 29 Oct 2012 (Photo: AFP)

Hurricanes may become more common in northeastern US, major cities face new risk

3 min read . 09 Jan 2022

A file photo of James Webb Space Telescope Mirror (Photo: Reuters)

Webb Space Telescope wraps up risky deployment but faces more hurdles

3 min read . 09 Jan 2022

A handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on December 28, 2021, shows a 3D reconstruction of the head of Amenhotep I, created using computed tomography (CT) scans (Photo: AFP)

Egyptian Pharoah’s mummy ‘digitally unwrapped’ after 3,500 years

3 min read . 28 Dec 2021

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched successfully early Saturday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket that lifted off at 7:20 am Eastern Standard Time from a pad in Kourou, French Guiana

James Webb Space Telescope launches successfully after years of delay

4 min read . 26 Dec 2021