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SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect Test Flight

SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test...

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn’t made by a rat

Chicago’s viral ‘Rat Hole’ is less rat splat, more squirrel squish. Researchers determined it was probably a...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

After the latest round of mass firings at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Cosmic Fire Hydrant

Comet 3I/Atlas continues to be full of surprises. As well as being only the third interstellar object...

How a Yurok family played a key role in the world’s largest dam removal project 

The Water RemembersAmy Bowers CordalisLittle Brown & Co., $30In September 2002, an estimated 34,000 to 78,000...

New wetsuit designs offer a layer of protection against shark bites

Carly Kay is the Fall 2025 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in...

How to Make STEM Funny—and Go Viral Doing It

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An aspiring chemist goes to college, realizes she’s not...

More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life

A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never...

Coral collapse signals Earth’s first climate tipping point

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping...

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.If you want to solve a tricky problem,...

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

This story originally appeared on Canary Media and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Australia has put...

Astronomers saw a rogue planet going through a rapid growth spurt

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