The Daybreak desk
Science & Health Discoveries that change how the world is understood.
A newly featured astronaut photograph shows an aurora from above. The colors reveal a physical process, while leaving much of the storm unseen.
File photograph · NASA / Johnson Space Center, Expedition 75 crew / NASA editorial-use permission · CroppedA strip of foil on the Moon began a story that continues in carefully sealed containers on Earth. The hardest part of collecting the solar wind may be keeping it useful.
File photograph · Neil Armstrong / NASA / JSC / NASA editorial-use permission · CroppedPrecision timekeeping has moved beyond navigation. It offers a way to measure the shape of the world—and to test the physics beneath it.
File photograph · Burrus/NIST / Public domain (U.S. government work) · Cropped
