Daily Archives: Mar 20, 2026

James Thompson

9 Surprising Frontiers of the ‘Third State’ Between Life and Death

"Death is not the end; sometimes, it's a pivot." That unsettling thought now has experimental underpinning: biologists have been detecting a liminal 'third state' in which cells from dead organisms reorganize, adapt and do entirely new things. This nascent field is rewriting the boundaries between life and death, pushing...
James Thompson

What Ukraine’s Strike on a Buyan-M Corvette Reveals

It is not usually that a small inland lake is the battleground for a wham of note in contemporary naval combat. But on the pre-dawn of October 4, Ukrainian commandos made Russia's Lake Onega in the republic of Karelia just that a battleground for one of Moscow's most advanced...
James Thompson

NASA Confirms 3I/ATLAS as the Largest Interstellar Comet

Astronomers have confirmed the arrival of a rare and gigantic visitor from outside the Solar System. Officially named 3I/ATLAS, it is the third interstellar object ever noted following 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. It was first discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded Chilean-based Asteroid Terrestrial-impact...