To celebrate the Tokyo Paralympics—going on right now!—we’re giving away a prize pack featuring a brand new Owlkids book about para athletes
Author: John Crossingham

These backflipping robots are the best!
Robotics company Boston Dynamics does it again as a pair of their Atlas robots complete an impressive obstacle course

NASA wants you to spend a year on Mars (sort of)
The CHAPEA mission is a year-long simulation of what life would be like for a crew on the Red Planet

Extinct mammal is given cool Hobbit-based name
Beornus honeyi is one of three newly discovered species of cat-sized mammals called condylarths that thrived after the Age of the Dinosaurs