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Station Nation: Meet Alyssa Yockey, Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Flight Lead

Station Nation: Meet Alyssa Yockey, Neutral Buoyancy La...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 43

Alyssa Yockey supports the International Space Station from NASA’s Johnson Space...

Light can influence the magnetic properties of some materials

Light can influence the magnetic properties of some mat...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 46

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and el...

Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago

Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million ...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 35

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised...

Five Essential Books on Plastic, Power, and Pollution

Five Essential Books on Plastic, Power, and Pollution

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 39

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are...

December 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

December 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Yea...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 47

Heimlich maneuver; training fleas

Can We Find Cleaner Ways to Extract Rare Earth Elements?

Can We Find Cleaner Ways to Extract Rare Earth Elements?

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 43

These valuable but difficult-to-extract metals are increasingly important to mod...

Experts Explain How Botulism Toxin Can End Up in Baby Formula

Experts Explain How Botulism Toxin Can End Up in Baby F...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 41

In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulis...

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4709-4715: Drilling High and Low in the Boxwork Unit

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4709-4715: Drilling High and Low i...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 44

Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink...

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4716-4722: Drilling Success at Nevado Sajama

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4716-4722: Drilling Success at Nev...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 35

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator at Framework Ea...

Four-fifths of the world's population now live in urban areas

Four-fifths of the world's population now live in urban...

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 47

A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cen...

NASA Telescopes View Spiral Galaxy

NASA Telescopes View Spiral Galaxy

SIN Nov 19, 2025 0 38

NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on J...

Poem: ‘The Covert Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany’

Poem: ‘The Covert Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany’

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 41

Science in meter and verse

Can AI ‘Griefbots’ Help Us Heal?

Can AI ‘Griefbots’ Help Us Heal?

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 49

What can AI “griefbots” do for those in mourning?

Why a Little Heartbeat Irregularity Can Be Good for You

Why a Little Heartbeat Irregularity Can Be Good for You

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 50

Milliseconds of variability, now detected by fitness watches, can improve well-b...

Science Crossword: A Destructive Fix

Science Crossword: A Destructive Fix

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 39

Play this crossword inspired by the December 2025 issue of Scientific American

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. C...

SIN Nov 18, 2025 0 40

NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring hom...

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