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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin moon lander completes a crucial test as race with SpaceX heats up

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin moon lander completes a crucia...

SIN May 6, 2026 0 34

NASA announced that this uncrewed lander, named Endurance, completed vacuum test...

Does a psychedelic trip change your brain? A new study offers a tantalizing clue

Does a psychedelic trip change your brain? A new study ...

SIN May 6, 2026 0 35

Scientists gave people a “heroic” dose of psilocybin and then looked at their br...

Why some mathematicians think we should abandon pi

Why some mathematicians think we should abandon pi

SIN May 6, 2026 0 35

A growing minority believes it’s a mistake to tie so many mathematical formulas ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin moon lander completes a crucial test as race with SpaceX heats up

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin moon lander completes a crucial...

SIN May 5, 2026 0 32

NASA announced that the lander, Endurance, completed vacuum testing on Earth—a k...

A decade of research reveals harms of ‘fitspiration’ content online

A decade of research reveals harms of ‘fitspiration’ co...

SIN May 5, 2026 0 20

The Internet loves fitness-motivation content. Olympian and researcher Valerie G...

How scientists made the discoveries behind a game-changing gene therapy for sickle cell disease and won a $3-million Breakthrough Prize

How scientists made the discoveries behind a game-chang...

SIN May 5, 2026 0 41

Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for...

Humpback whales sometimes hang out with their mouth open, baffling scientists

Humpback whales sometimes hang out with their mouth ope...

SIN May 5, 2026 0 26

Scientists are trying to decode why humpback whales can be observed hanging arou...

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 Artemis II photos—here’s how to see them

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 Artemis II photos—he...

SIN May 5, 2026 0 30

Want to go to the moon? Travel vicariously through the more than 12,000 photos N...

How a Greenland shark’s heart can beat for centuries

How a Greenland shark’s heart can beat for centuries

SIN May 5, 2026 0 35

Greenland sharks have hearts that can function normally for more than a century

Supreme Court reinstates access to abortion drug mifepristone by mail

Supreme Court reinstates access to abortion drug mifepr...

SIN May 5, 2026 0 34

On Monday the Supreme Court paused a ruling by a federal appeals court that prev...

School cell phone bans may boost student well-being—but not test scores, new study suggests

School cell phone bans may boost student well-being—but...

SIN May 4, 2026 0 34

Banning cell phones in schools has been touted as a silver bullet for poor test ...

Airborne microplastics could be making climate change worse

Airborne microplastics could be making climate change w...

SIN May 4, 2026 0 38

Tiny plastic particles drifting in Earth’s atmosphere could have a significant w...

Why NASA’s Artemis moon program could fall victim to SpaceX’s AI ambitions

Why NASA’s Artemis moon program could fall victim to Sp...

SIN May 4, 2026 0 29

Massive investments in AI may bring synergy and revenue to SpaceX, or could crea...

What you need to know about hantavirus, the infection at the center of a deadly cruise ship outbreak

What you need to know about hantavirus, the infection a...

SIN May 4, 2026 0 27

Hantavirus is a rare infectious disease that spreads through contact with rodent...

What we know—and what we don’t—about marijuana’s health effects

What we know—and what we don’t—about marijuana’s health...

SIN May 4, 2026 0 26

Marijuana is far from a “silver bullet” for various illnesses, but it has some p...

How a vision-restoring gene therapy proved that we can treat inherited diseases

How a vision-restoring gene therapy proved that we can ...

SIN May 4, 2026 0 37

Three 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners reflect on developing Luxturna, a gene the...

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