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The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit

It looks like some kind of seed pod or pine cone caught mid-explosion. At the center, there’s...

Starship’s Latest Test Reveals New Problems for SpaceX to Solve

SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally overcoming...

Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans

Some species of hummingbird are adapting to urban life by undergoing evolutionary changes in their anatomy, influenced...

A passing star could fling Earth out of orbit

Bad news, earthlings. Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all:...

Personalized gene editing saved a baby, but the tech’s future is uncertain

When a baby born in Philadelphia was announced as the first person to get a gene therapy...

‘Silent’ cells play a surprising role in how brains work

Brain cells named for stars are finally getting their time to shine. Three distinct studies, published May...

Mushroom Supplements Are the Biohackers’ Latest Fix (2025)

From ancient remedies to your Amazon cart, mushroom supplements have traveled a circuitous road. They nourish the...

Bedbugs may have been one of the first urban pests

The earliest cities may have had plenty of parasitic, six-legged tenants.  Common bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) experienced a...

Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago

Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000...

The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the...

A New Study Reveals the Makeup of Uranus’ Atmosphere

Uranus, the seventh planet in the solar system, located between Saturn and Neptune, has long been a...

Why Women With Type 2 Diabetes Are Diagnosed Later Than Men

Statistically, men are more likely than women to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with about 18...
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