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Why the US Is Racing to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

NASA is fast-tracking a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 under a...

A giant planet may orbit our closest sunlike neighbor

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

This ancient Siberian ice mummy had a talented tattooist

Some tattoos do age well. More than two millennia ago, a woman sat down for a couple...

Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results

An experimental pill made by Eli Lilly led to average weight loss of more than 12 percent...

NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations

About five years from now, a modified Dragon spacecraft will begin to fire its Draco thrusters, pushing...

7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in Indonesia 

Stone tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that ancient human relatives arrived there between...

A newly discovered gene helped this moss defy gravity

Mosses may appear simple, but they’re far from fragile. They thrive in some of the harshest places...

See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August

On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an arc in...

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.“I’m not sure if it was...

The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then...

This snail may hold a secret to human eye regeneration

A snail may hold the key to restoring vision for people with some eye diseases. Golden apple...

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush

The US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation has issued a scathing report on the implosion of...
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