
Can Trump’s NASA Afford to Send Humans to Mars?
The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say
Can Trump’s NASA Afford to Send Humans to Mars?
The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say
Tree Planting Efforts Could Actually Worsen Climate Change
This Is Why the Sun Makes a Figure Eight in the Sky
Human Intelligence Created the Climate Crisis—But It’s Also the Solution
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This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism
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A Japanese Spacecraft Has Crash-Landed on the Moon—Again
At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AI
The Quantum Bubble That Could Destroy the Universe
DNA Studies Uncover Unexpected Evolutionary Changes in Modern Humans
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Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.
The Secret to the Strongest Force in the Universe
Why Aren’t We Made of Antimatter?
Megalodon Diets, Teeth Sensitivity and a Bunch of Vaccine News
This Male Fertility Test Makes Assessing Sperm Health a More Accurate At-Home Affair
Building an LLM for Dolphin Chatter
AI Found a ‘Magic Potion’ That Can Bring Dead Batteries Back to Life
Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life
Our World Is Getting More Complicated. Here’s the 19th-Century Math That Proves It
Nothing in the cosmos is in equilibrium, which means entropy is on the rise
Are We Ready for Death in Space?
NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet
Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
The latest version of Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, is promoting fringe climate viewpoints in a way it hasn’t done before, observers say
Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond
Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could affect local weather and make sunrises and sunsets particularly vivid
Can Sunlight Cure Disease?
Sunshine may hold healing rays for a variety of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Scientists are turning this surprising discovery into treatments