Research, Space & Discovery
Paula Span, New York TimesIt had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis, a bone infection, then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility....
Melissa Rudy, Fox NewsAdults who faced persistent financial hardship showed poorer cognitive performance and signs of accelerated
Bipartisan Policy CenterAmerica's older adults are a growing share of the population, but the systems meant to support them haven't kept up. Older adults and their families struggle to...
Zunnash Khan, Live ScienceScientists may have found a way to rejuvenate key cells that help rebuild muscle in the body and thus preserve muscle into old age, they report in a new mouse...
Nadia Drake, Scientific AmericanOn July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to safely touch down on Mars. Shortly after, it beamed back our first
Liz Essley Whyte, Wall Street JournalAt a May lunch at the president's golf course in northern Virginia, President Trump asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., why...
Meilan Solly, SmithsonianThe waters off the coast ofMljet, a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea,...
Benjamin Santer, BotASIn a post on Truth Social earlier this month, Trump claimed that the National Academy of Sciences published "fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on climate...
Tom Wooldridge, PsycheBefore my first consultation with Daniel - a composite of several young men I've worked with - he stands ramrod straight in the waiting room, electric with tension....
Hatty Willmoth, Science FocusLiving longer doesn't necessarily mean living healthier. Despite having the world's highest life expectancy, people in Singapore spend many of their later years...
Abbey Halter, ABC ScienceA prehistoric "crime scene" involving a marine reptile eating one of its flying cousins before being killed by the "T-rex of the ocean" has been uncovered in...
Micah Hanks, DebriefA remarkable collection of
Paul Almond, The Space ReviewSpaceX's Starship-Super Heavy system is usually discussed in terms of its most ambitious promised capabilities: full reusability, rapid turnaround, very large...
Ethan Siegel, Big ThinkIt's hard to fathom just how far we've come in our understanding of the Universe over the past 200 years. Back in the early 1800s, we didn't even know...
Julia Vergin, DWThe first symptoms that Paul Gaylord noticed felt like a common flu. Two days earlier, he had been bitten by his cat, which had appeared ill. At first, he was prescribed...
Matthew Ponsford, NoemaThe microbes have assembled themselves into the rough shape of an open hand, reaching out from fluid at the bottom of the bottle. A dozen such containers sit side by...
University of EdinburghResearchers found that nearly 70 per cent of participants experienced persistent, clinically significant sleep problems, despite having no known history of sleep...
Purdue UniversitySixty-six million years ago, an asteroid about the size of Mount Everest smacked into Earth near where the Yucatan Peninsula is today. That impact created the Chicxulub...
EurekAlert!What makes a diet healthy—or not? According to a new study, nutritional quality matters more than processing level when it comes to long-term health.The study of over...
University of ManchesterWhen metals are exposed to powerful laser pulses, their electrons can heat up almost instantly, reaching extreme temperatures while the atoms themselves remain...