NASA to attempt uncrewed and crewed missions with Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft
Starliner hasn’t flown since its failed 2024 mission left two astronauts onboard the International Space Station for…
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TikTok influencers are promoting a home remedy to boost the immune system that could cause botulism
No, fermenting garlic in honey is not a replacement for antibiotic or antiviral meds
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Trump announces relaxed fuel economy standards
Environmental advocates have decried the move
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Surprising result seen in primordial matter inside atom smasher
Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island have seen hints of a phase transition from the early…
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SpaceX’s Starship lifts off in make-or-break orbital test flight
The world’s largest rocket successfully entered orbit for the first time—a milestone for SpaceX and a relief for future…
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Growing AI energy demands, the search for subatomic particles and the hottest amoeba
From the smallest building blocks of life to prehistoric vomit and a newly discovered amoeba that can really take the…
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Donor hearts may take on the age of their new bodies
After transplant, young hearts in both mice and humans showed signs of accelerated aging in older bodies, while older…
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The secret Cold War history of Tetris
The beloved game arose out of the opposing forces of the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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How a horse flu crisis fueled animals rights advocacy in the U.S.
In 1872, New York’s devastating epizootic gave the ASPCA’s young founder a powerful moral argument for animal protection
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How the body’s own immune system can attack the brain
Antibodies made by the immune system can sometimes target human brain cells, producing psychiatric symptoms.…
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Scientists just found a bizarre cosmic object ‘hiding in plain sight’
Meet the Milky Way’s first microblazar
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2026 could be the turning point on climate action, Al Gore says
The former vice president thinks this year is when we’ll get serious about climate change
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Why Hawaii is facing an unprecedented hurricane season
Hawaii has never had three hurricanes come within 50 miles in the same year
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Jupiter-bound spacecraft Juice to fly by Earth Monday
To get to the outer solar system, the Juice spacecraft needs an assist from Earth’s gravity—and it’s going to be taking…
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What’s the point of the interstellar Fermi Explorer mission?
Fermi Explorer, a proposed low-cost private mission to Alpha Centauri, seeks to address a question that’s already been…
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Vox’s Unexplainable and Scientific American explore the mystery of dark matter and the limits of science
What if the universe’s biggest mystery has no answer?
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Trump’s FDA nominee Heidi Overton affirms MMR vaccine and mifepristone are safe at crucial Senate hearing
Heidi Overton also said at the hearing on Thursday that Tylenol does not cause autism
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OpenAI’s agent hacking Australia is a warning for governments everywhere
In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government health care records during an…
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Diesel fuel prices are rising—chemistry can help explain why
Diesel prices have almost doubled over the past year, spelling trouble for farmers, truckers and the entire U.S. economy
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AI solves 79-year-old math mystery of six-dimensional spheres
Can a six-dimensional sphere be described using imaginary numbers? For decades, experts puzzled over this question. Now…
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China’s open AI models are testing America’s approach to AI safety
With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models…
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Blood test for multiple cancers clears crucial hurdle on track to FDA approval
If approved, the test could help catch cancers early—but more research is still needed, experts say
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See the Taurids light up the fall sky with brilliant shooting stars
Lasting from mid-September until mid-November, the Taurid meteor showers are among the longest of the year
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Watch a robot dog run a marathon faster than the average human
The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery…
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When it comes to ‘poop maxxing,’ are you optimizing or obsessing?
Is it possible to optimize our poop?
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Is football too dangerous for kids’ brains? These scientists are racing to find out
A new study found that one in four professional football players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE—a degenerative…
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Scientists discover largest new impact crater in the solar system ever—on our moon
The crater, named after geologist and lunar surface expert Tom McGetchin, spans more than two football fields wide
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Why mathematicians are hiding research results in zero-knowledge proofs
Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them…
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Trump rejects AI regulation, citing parallels with climate change, in U.N. address
The president also said artificial intelligence should be rebranded as “super intelligence”
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RFK, Jr., is focusing attention on electromagnetic fields. Here’s what the science says about exposure
The research into how electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation influence health has been plagued by…
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This year’s El Niño just broke another sobering record
“This is probably going to be the superlative El Niño event of our lives so far,” a climate scientist says
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Mathematicians use AI to find mysterious symmetries, solving decades-old problem
In parallel, a race by amateurs and mathematicians has found all 25,000 cases of one “inverse Galois problem”
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NASA Goddard’s shrinking workforce could stifle future space missions, experts say
2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the home base for…
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Mathematician reveals the truth behind the Parthenon’s optical illusion
The Parthenon sits atop a platform that is curved into a subtle hill shape that some say makes the structure appear…
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What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science
Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science
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Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole
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