Tom Hawking

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Tom Hawking is a writer based in New York City. He writes about culture, politics, science and everything in between. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. You can subscribe to his Substack here.

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In the foreground to the left is a sphere half illuminated on the right side, almost filling the image vertically. The surface consists of several parallel, pale-coloured bands aligned horizontally. To the top right is a much smaller orange, circular light source, illuminating the large sphere in the foreground. The background is black with numerous tiny white dots.
Deep Space

JWST detects a new exoplanet six times larger than Jupiter

By Tom Hawking

NASA VIPER Rover
Moons

NASA’s VIPER rover won’t be going to the moon after all

By Tom Hawking

A team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists have discovered a planet that has the most oblong orbit ever found among transiting planets. The exoplanet’s extreme circuit — which looks closer to a cucumber than a circle — follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. The planet, , named TIC 241249530, is also orbiting its star backwards, lending insight into the mystery of how close-in massive gas planets, known as hot Jupiters, form, stabilize and evolve over time.
Deep Space

Newly discovered exoplanet’s orbit is like a ‘cucumber’

By Tom Hawking

harvester ants
Animals

How ants acts for the common good of the colony

By Tom Hawking

The rim and floor of Gale Crater as seen from NASA’s Curiosity Rover.
Mars

Mars was icy and wet billions of years ago, new study suggests

By Tom Hawking

floppy disks
Technology

Japan’s government is (finally) done with floppy disks

By Tom Hawking

visual rabbit illusion
Science

How does the visual rabbit illusion fool us so reliably?

By Tom Hawking

titan
Science

Wave erosion may have shaped Titan’s coastlines

By Tom Hawking

Haliskia peterseni
Dinosaurs

New species of flying dinosaur found in Australia

By Tom Hawking

arctic
Science

The good news about ‘giant viruses’ found in the Arctic Circle

By Tom Hawking

Drinking alcohol on airplanes is bad for your body
Health

Drinking alcohol on airplanes is bad for your body

By Tom Hawking

JWST discovers earliest galaxy ever observed
Deep Space

JWST discovers earliest galaxy ever observed

By Tom Hawking

Chandler on 'Friends' is known for his sarcasm.
Technology

Neural network trained on ‘Friends’ can recognize sarcasm

By Tom Hawking

Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes
Animals

Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes

By Tom Hawking

Opal Sandy
Health

Gene therapy breakthrough allows toddler born deaf to hear

By Tom Hawking

Belugas may be jiggling their melons to communicate
Animals

Belugas may be jiggling their melons to communicate

By Tom Hawking

Cheyenne is located at the NCAR's Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Technology

For sale: government supercomputer, heavily used

By Tom Hawking

The mystery of cats and their love of imaginary boxes
Animals

The mystery of cats and their love of imaginary boxes

By Tom Hawking

When time slows down while you're looking at a clock
Health

Why do clock hands seem to slow down?

By Tom Hawking

colorful facial profiles of people saying BA BA BA and GA GA GA; illustration
Health

Why what we see influences what we hear

By Tom Hawking