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Starship’s Successful Test Moves SpaceX One Step Closer to Mars

SpaceX has completed a mostly successful fourth test of its revolutionary new Starship rocket, a key step...

Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt stuck

Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago. Horses were domesticated at least twice, researchers...

How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?

Climate change. It's bad, and it's getting worse. The main cause is burning fossil fuels, which spews...

Scientists are fixing flawed forensics that can lead to wrongful convictions

Citations National Research Council. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward. The National Academies...

China’s Chang’e-6 snagged the first samples from the farside of the moon

China has become the first country to collect samples from the farside of the moon, hopefully providing...

In 2018, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted like a stomp rocket

A series of explosions from the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea in 2018 may have been triggered by a...

The sun is entering solar maximum. Expect auroras, and more

Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during...

Thomas Cech’s ‘The Catalyst’ spotlights RNA and its superpowers

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

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed

Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it into...

Freshwater first appeared on Earth 4 billion years ago, ancient crystals hint

Earth may have had fresh, not just salty, water as soon as 600 million years after the...

The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The end is brutal for electrons hurtling at...

Science and the challenges of evidence-based forensics

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...
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