Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, can persist without oxygen for a long time, rarely develop…
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Graphic depiction of the Coilable Stacked Solar Sails for Very High delta-V Missions concept. Artur Davoyan Artur Davoyan University…
The company behind the disk space analyzer TreeSize has irked some users by no longer offering support or updates for perpetual licenses beyond their maintenance period unless customers subscribe. Further…
NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards its intended target, but it didn’t leave the Red Planet empty-handed. While testing its…
It seems as though $5.6 billion wasn’t enough. That was the news from the US Space Force on Friday, when military officials announced they were tripling the maximum value of…
Indian space officials celebrated the debut flight of Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket, India’s first fully commercial satellite launcher, as a “grand success” Saturday after an on-target climb into a 280-mile-high…
Whether you’re marking essays or reviewing job applications or merely browsing the web and scrolling through social media, it’s a sign of our times that you might find yourself wondering—did…
With summer heat comes pool parties, beach days, backyard cookouts, and, of course, swarms of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. But while insect bites have always been a side effect of time spent…
The Air Force One of cartoons is getting a second shot at life after spending nearly 15 years baking in the Florida heat. A multi-year effort to restore the interior…
Last month, we reported on a troubling incident at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans. On June 5, five leading scientists were ousted for…