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This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into Space

Satellites go through a lot. As they hurtle around our planet at up to 17,000 miles an...

Supplements Companies Are Cashing In on the Ozempic Wave

The supplement industry has a long, tangled history with the world of weight-loss products. Prior to the...

Lawsuit Attacks Florida’s Lab-Grown Meat Ban as Unconstitutional

Florida’s ban on cultivated meat is being challenged in federal court in a lawsuit that was filed...

Extreme Weather Poses a Challenge for Heat Pumps

Andreas Bangheri knows how to read the wind. He’s been hang gliding and piloting small aircraft around...

The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Once upon a time, long ago, the world...

How Do You Get Drugs to the Brain? Maybe Try a Parasite

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Parasites take an enormous toll on...

The FDA Just Rejected a Bid for MDMA’s Approval to Treat PTSD

The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a first-of-its-kind proposal to use the psychedelic drug MDMA,...

Noah Lyles’ Olympic Run Is the New Normal for Living With Covid

Covid cases have spiked every summer since 2020, and this season is no exception. A Covid wave...

Does Jewelry and Big Hair Slow Down Olympic Runners?

To be an Olympic champion, athletes spend years perfecting every aspect of their performance. That same attention...

Judging Breakdancing at the Olympics Is an Art, Not a Science

Back in 2017, when I was watching the breaking battles at the Silverback Open in the suburbs...

NASA Still Hasn’t Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home

During a news conference on Wednesday, NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the...

Beyond Meat Is Stalling in the US. Europe Could Be Another Story

The plant-based meat industry is in a bad place. Sales in the US fell last year as...
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