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Europe's JUICE Jupiter Probe Zooms past the Moon in His...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft took a shortcut to the giant planet by...

New Insights on Dinosaurs, Pain and Carbon Capture

How we’ll learn more about dark matter, quantum gravity and substitutes for lab ...

Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat

Air-conditioning is uncommon for incarcerated people, and the heat index inside ...

John McFall Is Breaking Barriers as the World’s First P...

Paralympian and surgeon John McFall is redefining the astronaut image and provin...

How Does a Bioluminescent Petunia Glow?

A bioluminescent petunia led me to a world of radiant mushrooms, 19th century ex...

Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’

Science in meter and verse

Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals O...

Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could impr...

55 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Astronauts End Quarantine, Fete...

On Aug. 10, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and E...

Danish Instrument Helps NASA’s Juno Spacecraft See Radi...

Using cameras designed for navigation, scientists count ‘fireflies’ to determine...

FAQ: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Return Status

Editor’s note: This article was updated Aug. 20, 2024, to reflect the latest inf...

Tyler Parsotan Takes a Long Look at the Transient Unive...

Through a nonlinear path to success, research astrophysicist Tyler Parsotan disc...

Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computer...

A new biography of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt celebrates meaning making in sci...

Voting Is Just the Beginning

Your vote matters. But so does your involvement in civic actions

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Ye...

Mysterious Mercury; spiders predict the weather

How Did Dinosaurs See, Smell, Hear and Move?

New fossils and analytical tools provide unprecedented insights into dinosaur se...

Many Older People Maintain and Even Gain Cognitive Skills

Contrary to stereotypes of the doddering elderly, research shows that half of pe...

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