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NASA scraps its 2027 moon landing, adds two missions in 2028

NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will...

Take it from the Olympics, slushy winter sports may be the new normal

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan, Italy, was a slushy affair. And the Paralympics, which start...

Why is math harder for some kids? Brain scans offer clues

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain...

On moonshots and Minneapolis

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been gearing up to cover the launch of NASA’s Artemis...

Here’s how honeyeaters and other birds thrive on sugary diets

To eat a sugar-filled diet, birds had to evolve some sweet genetic tricks. Birds that feed on...

Mosquitoes began biting humans more than a million years ago

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis...

Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not

Finding out what gut microbes a person carries may not be as easy as many companies...

Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration

Climate change may threaten North America’s iconic mass monarch butterfly migration.  Every fall, millions of monarchs (Danaus...

Metal pollution from a rocket reentry detected for the first time

For the first time, scientists have directly observed metal pollutants leaching from a piece of orbital junk:...

Here’s why sneakers squeak on the basketball court

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

This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station

For instance, and this would be very, very bad: a puncture wound.In the vacuum of space, the...

Keeping a beat wins caterpillars friends in low places

Some caterpillars speak ant by rocking to a beat. By jiggling like a cellphone receiving a call while...
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