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Artemis II Countdown: How and When to Watch the Launch

After multiple delays, rocket repairs, and a restructuring of the program to return to the moon, the...

Pronatalists want more babies. Their solutions aren’t rooted in science

Vice President J.D. Vance has spent years urging people in the United States to have more babies....

The US Military’s GPS Software Is an $8 Billion Mess

Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of...

A comet may have flipped its spin and entered into a death spiral

For the first time, a comet may have been caught flipping its spin. Sometime between April and...

Secrets of the Bees zooms in on life in a hive

At the edge of a wildflower meadow sits an unassuming tan box with a pitched roof. But...

Heavy soil tilling for agriculture can do more harm than good

For thousands of years, humans have prepared to plant by tilling, overturning the soil to manage moisture,...

Quantum physics can confirm where someone is located

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

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant

Galen Buckwalter didn’t hesitate to get a craniotomy in 2024 as part of a brain implant study...

How snakes defy gravity to stand tall

As a long and wiry scrub python slithers its way from branch to branch on a tree,...

Welcome to the weird world of AI agent teams

OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude regularly answer our questions. And souped-up versions of these chatbots, called AI...

A rare star in a tiny galaxy preserves a record of the early universe

In an ancient dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered one of...

One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes From Solar Power

There’s a whole menu of different energy sources to choose from in generating electric power—coal, gas, wind,...
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