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There was a time when things ended. When the stories on our screens had a beginning, middle, and end. A time when a trilogy was the longest series...
There was a time when things ended. When the stories on our screens had a beginning, middle, and end. A time when a trilogy was the longest series...
NASA will roll the largest section of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, which will launch the second crewed Artemis mission, out of the...
NASA’s 32nd annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, one of the agency’s longest-standing student challenges, culminated April 10-11 with its final...
A 63-year-old man known as the Oslo patient is "likely cured" of HIV after a stem-cell transplant remodeled his entire immune system.Prior to this...
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NASA has selected Development Seed of Washington to provide research and development services to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI)...
This Nearly 300-Million-Year-Old Mummified Reptile Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of How We Breathe Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided...
Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, April 3, 2026 I was the...
Our gut microbiome has a significant impact on our hormonesnopparit/Getty Images Discarded sex hormones can be returned to the bloodstream by...
A common antiseptic used to clean hospital patients' skin can linger on surfaces for hours, creating breeding grounds for bacteria to become...
A new White House fiscal year 2027 budget proposal for NASA is drawing sharp criticism from space advocates, who warn it could dramatically reshape...
Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Strategic Planner and Planetary Geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday,...
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Two U.S. states and more than a dozen cities and counties have moved in the past year to stop adding fluoride to community drinking water, citing...
Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed 10 "extremely rare" prehistoric stone hand axes that were crafted to deliberately include geological...
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Fresh off their return to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASA’s Johnson Space...
A Dizzying Spiral Staircase With a Single Guardrail Once Led to the Top of the Eiffel Tower. Now, You Can Buy 14 of the Original Steps The 1,062...
An artist’s impression of comet 41P as it approached the sun and shot material off into spaceNASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) A small comet...
For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the way atoms physically move — bringing a phenomenon once described by Albert...
The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have made their first public comments following their record-breaking test mission to the far side of the moon...
Artemis II Astronauts Aboard USS John P. MurthaNASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; left, Christina Koch, mission specialist; CSA (Canadian...
The S.S. Steven R. Nagel has arrived at the International Space Station.The second of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to deliver...
The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II...
Rolled Up in a Cellar for Decades, This Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Is Now Up for Auction. Why Is Mary Magdalene’s Face Missing From the...
Reid Wiseman had one last decision to make before leaving his spacecraft post-splashdown: leave something behind in accordance with NASA's...
Songkran Is Thailand’s Splashing New Year’s Festival, When Everyone Gets Out a Super Soaker and Prepares to Get Drenched The memorable tradition has...
In the animated movie Up, a boisterous dog wears an electronic collar that translates his doggy thoughts into English words. “My master made me this...
NASA Artemis 2 astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch celebrate after splashing down back on Earth. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)The...
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New research has delivered a stark warning about a major change in Africa's forests. Once a crucial part of the fight against climate change, these...
New nighttime maps based on NASA satellite imagery are upending assumptions, revealing a world where artificial brightening and dimming have...
A new study suggests that human sperm quality follows a seasonal pattern, peaking in the summer and dipping in the winter. The research, published...
Periodontitis is a common condition that can affect much more than just oral health. Scientists at Fraunhofer have discovered a compound that...
The seas around Antarctica might begin releasing CO2Nigel Killeen/Getty Images Global warming caused by humanity’s carbon emissions has been slowing...
Anatoly Doroshenko is tasked with entering Chernobyl’s reactor 4 to take vital radioactivity readingsMykhaylo Palinchak The shattered remains of...
Lyudmila Dyblenko stayed at Chernobyl during the Russian occupation in 2022Mykhaylo Palinchak As Russian troops rolled across the Belarusian border...
The bleak landscape of the Chernobyl exclusion zoneMykhaylo Palinchak It was 1.23am when disaster struck. A routine safety test led to a...
In a First, This Personalized Cell Therapy Treated Three Life-Threatening Autoimmune Diseases in One Patient The patient was bedridden and needed...
NASA's historic Artemis 2 mission around the far side of the moon officially ended on April 10, as astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina...
New findings presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Istanbul, Turkey (May 12-15) highlight clear differences in how obesity...
Gray whales are known for their long migration between food-rich Arctic waters and the warm lagoons of Baja Mexico. But as climate change alters...
Light plays a major role in how plants grow, but scientists are still uncovering exactly how it works. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University...
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have introduced a new theoretical design for quantum systems based on what they call...
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble...
A rare naked-eye asteroid will light up the night sky on April 13, 2029, when the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis makes an extraordinarily close...
In 1776, the Declaration of Independence Was Breaking News. Here’s How the Founding Document Reached the American Public A new book by historian...
Where Does This Anti-War Masterpiece Belong? In Spain, a Request to Borrow Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Sparks a Bitter Debate The artwork depicts the...
Imagine a single vaccine that protects against the flu, COVID-19, lung-invading bacteria and seasonal allergens all at once.Scientists recently...
Enslaved and Free Workers Built Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Brick by Brick. Archaeologists Just Discovered One of the Kilns They Used Researchers...
For many of us, checking the weather is part of daily life. But, in an increasingly technology-dependent world, there is another kind of forecast we...
The Idol of Pomos has become a symbol of Cyprus. (Image credit: The Print Collector/Alamy)QUICK FACTSName: Idol of PomosWhat it is: A carved...
What influences how long we live, and how much of that is written in our genes? For many years, scientists believed genetics played only a modest...
Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a "reborn" black hole in action, revealing a dramatic outburst that has been compared to...
A new clinical trial led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London suggests that a single injection given every six months may significantly...
News Animals For gray whales, San Francisco Bay is becoming a deadly pit stop Nearly 1 in 5 whales that enter the bay don’t make it out A gray whale...
Scientists at Stanford Medicine have identified a naturally occurring molecule that appears to mimic some of the weight loss effects of semaglutide,...
Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon)...
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old sandstone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh.The small rectangular monument,...
Where will you be for the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026?If you're within the roughly 190-mile (305 kilometers) wide path of totality through...
More than one in four people with Type 2 diabetes use GLP-1 receptor agonists, a class of widely prescribed medications. However, new research from...
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A new study of Neanderthal remains from a cave in Belgium is shedding light on a disturbing aspect of prehistoric life. Researchers analyzing human...
The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave is changing how scientists understand the relationship between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens....
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, about 2.3 million women were...
Viruses are highly effective at entering human cells, largely because of specialized proteins that cover their outer surfaces. These proteins are...
Quick factsWhat it is: "Earthset" as seen by the crew of NASA's Artemis II missionWhere it is: 4,070 miles (6,550 kilometers) above the lunar...
HOUSTON — The crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission around the moon is back on Earth — and now back home, here in Houston.NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman,...
Whether you're watching a spectacular lunar eclipse or studying lunar features through a telescope, there are plenty of reasons to gaze at the...
Mars is a harsh and unforgiving world. Any life that may have existed there in the past, or could exist today or in the future, would need to...
An international team of astronomers has delivered one of the clearest measurements yet of how quickly the nearby Universe is expanding. Instead of...
Los primeros astronautas en viajar a la Luna en más de medio siglo han regresado a la Tierra tras una misión que ha establecido nuevos récords a...
Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who...
When people gain weight during life can play a major role in their health decades later. A large study of more than 600,000 individuals from Lund...
NASA is sending more science, technology demonstrations, and crew supplies to the International Space Station following the successful launch of the...
Maintaining a healthy weight may depend not only on food choices but also on meal timing. A study published in the International Journal of...
All About Artemis - The Brilliance of Artemis 2 - YouTube Watch On On Episode 205 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the flight...
Scientific fieldwork does not always go as planned. Researchers often set out with a clear goal, but sometimes the data leads them somewhere...
Chemists have achieved what many once considered impossible by stabilizing an extremely reactive molecule in water, confirming a 67-year-old theory...
A declining sense of smell may be one of the earliest warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, appearing even before noticeable memory problems. New...
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems' sycophantic responses could be messing with the way people handle social dilemmas and interpersonal conflicts,...
NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 Launch - YouTube Watch On SpaceX will launch a big cargo ship to orbit on this morning...
Artemis II RecoveryNASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina...
This image from April 10, 2026, captures NASA’s Orion spacecraft, with its parachutes deployed, seconds before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The...
This week's science news was moonstruck by updates from the Artemis II mission, which saw four astronauts swing around the moon's far side before...
Since its historic April 1 launch from Kennedy Space Center, NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon has delivered a stream of extraordinary...
Artemis 2 has come home, but NASA still has its nose to the lunar grindstone.The four astronauts of Artemis 2, the first crewed mission to the moon...
Scientists have identified more than 3,000 species of bacteria living in the human gut. We know they play a role in digestion and immune function....
The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II...
Researchers led by Flinders University, working with international collaborators, have uncovered how a rare blood clotting condition can develop...
The Artemis II mission ended in a dramatic fashion on April 10, 2026, when NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, just off the...
The astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made it home. Their journey, which began in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 1 April, took them around the...
Artemis 2 has come home.The four Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down off the coast of San Diego this evening (April 10), wrapping up an epic mission...
Artemis 2 Astronauts Successfully Return to Earth After Completing a Historic Mission Around the Moon The crewmembers splashed down Friday after...
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