Research, Space & Discovery
As we age, the body appears to sacrifice walking efficiency in exchange for stability. Older adults stiffen the ankle more with each step, which may help prevent falls but also forces the muscles to w...
Stomp Rockets can open up the world of model rocketry to your kids.
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Targeting SET may make glioblastoma more responsive to radiation and chemotherapy. Glioblastoma can survive attacks that destroy many other cancer cells, helping make it one of the deadliest cancers a...
Tiny viruses that infect bacteria could one day help us tackle infections that antibiotics can no longer treat. But first, scientists need to understand how these viruses work, and artificial intellig...
Limb Regeneration: Prospects for Humans
As Blue Origin continues restoring its primary launch pad at LC-36A, the company has released…The postBlue Origin overviews plan for dual pad ops at Cape Canaveralappeared first onNASASpaceFlight.com.
Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits. Named Spea labreae, the Ice Age spadefoot toad is an exceptionally rare fi...
SpaceX launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart on Saturday evening (Aug. 15), setting a new spaceflight record.
A simple blood test that detects chemical changes in DNA identified more than 90% of stage 2-4 lung cancers in an early study, without relying on costly DNA sequencing. Researchers at Tel Aviv Univers...
When a dairy cow miscarries, a farmer loses far more than an unborn calf. Feed has been grown, land and water have been used, and greenhouse gases have been released during the cow's pregnancy, but mi...
Penn State’s Printable Hydrogel Can Read the Body Through Hair and Sweat—but Clinical Claims Remain Ahead of the Evidence
Astronomers have witnessed a black hole violently shredding a massive star, creating one of the most energetic stellar explosions ever observed. The event, nicknamed “the Whippet,” briefly released ab...
A targeted light-activated therapy may treat periodontitis without disrupting the beneficial bacteria that help maintain oral health. Treating periodontitis presents a difficult balance: harmful bacte...
Many fascinating phases in quantum materials emerge when electrons, atoms and other microscopic components begin to act collectively. But these phases do not necessarily appear out of nowhere when a m...
COVID Mammography Disruptions May Drive More Late-Stage Breast Cancers and Deaths for Years
COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses hiding in the body, including Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus, and several herpes viruses. One poorly understood viral family was strongly associated with long CO...
CT scans and DNA revealed that Australia’s rare sea muppets only look like seahorses and actually belong to a separate evolutionary lineage. A tiny fish from southern Australia could easily be mistake...
A parasitic plant on a Japanese island has found an unlikely way to send its offspring into the world. It appears to enlist wandering hermit crabs. Hidden on the floor of coastal forests near Okinawa,...
An international research team examined a unique fossil from China that, for the first time, preserves the digestive system of a marine reptile with a long neck that lived in the oceans 245 million ye...