Research, Space & Discovery
Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit early Monday morning (Aug. 31), and you can watch the action live.
Humans have been observing the sky for thousands of years. Our ancestors were undoubtedly fascinated by it, but observing the heavens also had practical uses: It helped people measure time, both over ...
Jennifer L. Wolff, Health AffairsThe United States has experienced unprecedented, sustained population aging in the last century and a quarter. In 1900, average life expectancy at birth was...
Texas A&M UniversityThe same biological signals that help predict lifespan in humans also appear in dogs, according to new research from theDog Aging...
Kyle Umipig, Longevity.TechnologyHEALTH's new Longevity Insights Report, based on responses from 1,000 Americans, raises...
Paula Span, KFF Health NewsOn an August morning two years ago, Meredith Melville was crossing Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, to meet a friend at a cafe. While in the crosswalk, she...
Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest BrokerThe many videos I've seen from the Nepal glacier/rock flood are horrific and tragic. They remind me of those of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. The death...
Meda Parameswara Reddy, Ph.D., RealClearScienceHere is a fact that should not be controversial: human beings are born, with rare exceptions, into...
Angela Duckworth, New York TimesI was once stranded with my 86-year-old mother in the Atlantic Ocean. We were on a snorkeling excursion off the coast of Miami, and the two of us were...
Eric Berger, Ars TechnicaAs is standard procedure for major NASA missions, the US space agency held apost-launch news conference...
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScienceAt your earliest embryonic moments of life, you had the superpower of X-Men's Wolverine. You could regenerate."Embryos exhibit a unique capacity for...
Matthew Williams, Universe TodayWelcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel, where we look at the many proposals made for sending missions to the stars since the dawn of the Space...
David Nield, Science AlertAs scientists look for ways to tackle the global obesity crisis, researchhas establishedthat once the...
Micah Hanks, TBThe remains of a "lost" English village, hidden beneath the waters of an English reservoir for more than half a century, recently reappeared amid falling water levels this...
Adam Popescu, New York TimesMount Everest, which straddles the border between Nepal and China, is in transition.
Paul Offit, Beyond NoiseOn August 25, 2026, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH)
Katsumori Matsuoka, C & E NewsA graduate student atHokkaido Universityhas died after severe exposure to hydrofluoric acid (HF) during an...
Ethan Siegel, Big ThinkIn our Universe, in all directions and in all locations, there's simply more "stuff" that space is full of everywhere we look. On the largest scales of...
U of MichiganOlder adults who experienced food insecurity in both midlife and later life had nearly four times the risk of probable dementia as those who remained food secure, according to...
University East AngliaTens of thousands of new mums across Britain may be suffering undiagnosed PTSD following childbirth, according to a University of East Anglia