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Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA

For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site...

Trump orders sow chaos in global public health 

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A sudden...

Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming....

Life’s ingredients have been found in samples from asteroid Bennu

Underground pools of liquid brine probably formed 4.6 billion years ago on the parent body of...

Can you actually die of a broken heart?

Passing quietly away from sheer heartbreak is a trope that pops up in myth and fantasy. In...

This Blood Vessel Was Grown in a Lab With Real Human Cells

Each year, about 185,000 people in the United States undergo amputation. Nearly half of those are due...

Chatty bats are more likely to take risks

All bats are vocal, but some are more vocal than others. This chattiness reveals their individuality,...

Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires

A wicked convergence of blustery wind and prolonged drought has prompted devastation in Southern California,...

Like flyways for birds, we need to map swimways for fish

For almost a century, migratory flyways have been a cornerstone of bird conservation. Knowing where these aerial...

Cricket frogs belly flop their way across water

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

Ghostly white northern lights present new auroral mystery

Mysterious ribbons of grayish white have been spotted woven through the northern lights. New images reveal that...
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