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As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It

The European Commission has launched a new initiative to attract researchers and scientists to the European Union—especially...

This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane.Twice in the past five months, the...

Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own

Neandertals may have been forging projectile weapons out of animal bones 50,000 years earlier than previously thought....

Before altering the air, microbes oxygenated large swaths of the sea

Ancient oxygen-making microbes may have oxygenated large swaths of Earth’s seafloor hundreds of millions of years before...

British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze Age civilizations

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into...

Lining medical stents with hairlike fuzz could fend off infections

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

Physicists explain how cheese rosettes form

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

The Future of Manufacturing Might Be in Space

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that...

FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making significant changes to how it will respond to disasters on...

A Soviet spacecraft will crash to Earth this month

A Soviet space probe stuck in orbit since a failed 1972 launch is expected to crash to...

Ancient poems document the decline of the Yangtze finless porpoise

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

Frog ribbits erupt via an extravagant variety of vocal sacs

Here’s a great case of real life turning out to be stranger than fiction. From baby’s first...
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