Research, Space & Discovery
NASA funded an early-stage concept aiming to show new techniques for mapping minerals on the moon, asteroids or Martian moons.
The European private space launch provider Isar Aerospace, headquartered in Ottobrunn, Germany, is set to…The postIsar Aerospace attempts launch of Spectrum rocket after months of delaysappeared first...
Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has become a routine part of working life, but overreliance on the technology may erode managers' ability to build moral insights, contextual understanding ...
Jonathan Jarry, McGill OSSScience is elastic. Its findings can be stretched to sell useless gadgets and to sow mistrust. Often, this distortion of the truth is done outside of academia by...
Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life on Earth. Detailed imagi...
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Newly identified CHL1 fibroblasts may help lung cancers escape immune attack by recruiting regulatory T cells around tumors. A previously unknown population of fibroblasts appears to help lung tumors ...
Keith Mulvihill, New York TimesLike many men his age, Adam Grosowsky begins his workouts with stretching. What comes next is a bit more unusual: He wrestles himself into a wet suit and...
Scientists have uncovered an unusual form of electron behavior in zirconium pentatelluride, a quantum material that can act as both an insulator and a conductor. Under temperatures near absolute zero ...
Mitali Sen & Rachel J. Bacon, Census BureauThe world is getting older, faster than ever before. So is the United States, whose share of population age 65 and over is projected to jump from...
Chloe Veltman, Stanford Longevity MagazineFor decades, the American approach to the end of life has been framed as a series of legal or financial checklists and advance directives, often...
Esther Landhuis, Stanford Longevity MagazineThe quest to live longer, fuller lives has captivated humanity for millennia. In lab mice, scientists have spent about a century studying the...
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScienceFor roughly three decades, physicians widely recommended a daily low-dose aspirin to older individuals, buoyed by animal and observational studies showing that...
Emma Haccoun Choquette, Office for Science and SocietyHave you ever spent hours at your desk, studying, working, or scrolling on your phone, only to realize you barely moved all day? We...
Esra Öz, Science AlertHe had been athletic and healthy. Then came years of exhaustion, pain, memory problems, and psychiatric symptoms. Eventually, he had to leave college.By the...
Stephen McVeigh, The ConversationWhen Star Trek first appeared on television screens 60 years ago, audiences expected science fiction to offer aliens, monsters and futuristic technology....
Andrew Gregory, GuardianA genetically modified kidney from a pig called Wilma has kept a 66-year-old man with kidney failure alive for a record nine months and successfully acted as a...
Jonathan O'Callaghan, Sci Focus"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." The phrase, often attributed to the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, dates back to...
Eric Berger, ArsThe normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and...
Niko McCarty, Works ProgIn 1983, a biochemical company called AGS filed an application to release genetically modified organisms into the environment. AGS had deleted a single gene from a...