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Metal pollution from a rocket reentry detected for the first time

For the first time, scientists have directly observed metal pollutants leaching from a piece of orbital junk:...

Here’s why sneakers squeak on the basketball court

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station

For instance, and this would be very, very bad: a puncture wound.In the vacuum of space, the...

Keeping a beat wins caterpillars friends in low places

Some caterpillars speak ant by rocking to a beat. By jiggling like a cellphone receiving a call while...

An African monkey ate a rope squirrel and came down with mpox

A monkey making a meal of a squirrel may have sparked an outbreak.  In early 2023, mpox...

The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved

There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It's...

Intricate silk helps net-casting spiders ensnare prey in webs

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

A lab on wheels is tracking HIV spread in war-torn Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine has stymied healthcare services, allowing diseases such as HIV to spread unchecked. The...

Venus has a massive lava tube

Shrouded from astronomers’ view by dense clouds, Earth’s “sister planet” Venus is slowly giving up some of...

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

The US added a record-breaking amount of energy storage in 2025, according to a new solar industry...

Iron Age mass grave may hold unusual victims: mostly women and children

A mass grave from roughly 3,000 years ago in what is now Serbia is filled with the...

Wanderlust may be written in our DNA

From ancient nomads to modern job-hoppers, the urge to move may be written partly into our DNA....
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