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The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too. Flight 13 launched on Friday (July 24), sending the 408-foot-tall (124 meters)…

Every year, millions of dry metric tons of biosolids – the nutrient-rich stuff left over from municipal sewage treatment, aka sludge – are applied to US soils. It’s a marvel…

Popular weight-loss and diabetes medications such as semaglutide and Ozempic belong to a broader group known as GLP-1 drugs. A study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has…

To the casual observer, the look and feel of shipping containers suggests a world of smooth, lossless transportation, almost immaterial in its implementation of a logistical ideal. However, the system…

Engineers at the ITER nuclear fusion facility in southern France have placed the final vacuum vessel sector module into its central assembly space, completing a critical structural stage for the…

We tend to think of melting as a relatively straightforward process – a solid material’s gradual slide towards liquid entropy. There’s at least one material in the Universe that has…

What if you could visit a place that does not exist on any map? A place whispered about online as though it sits just beyond the edges of our known…

Rachel Feltman: Hey listeners, it’s Rachel here. Before we get into today’s episode, I just wanted to acknowledge our unexplained absence from your feed over the last few weeks. To…

Welcome to part three of my trilogy on stars’ birth, life, and death. In last week’s Starwatch column about the life of stars, I told you how stars cook up…

Researchers at Uppsala University have determined that the Sun contains 55 percent more silver than earlier calculations suggested. Their updated estimate comes from a more realistic model of the solar…

In 2022, a batch of chicken and duck embryos that died before hatching arrived at a veterinary lab in China for testing. Buried in their brain tissue, researchers found Acinetobacter…

After decades of arduous preparation, the largest, most ambitious survey of the night sky ever created has at last opened its eye. This sweeping project, which started its observations in…

Researchers from VIB, KU Leuven, the UK-DRI and Muna Therapeutics, with funding that included support from ERC, have identified a major biological shift that may help determine whether Alzheimer’s disease…

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Scientists at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered that surrounding materials can dramatically increase how often nuclear fusion happens at low energies. The study opens up an…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Simonetta Vespucci is probably one of the most painted women of the Italian…

Every second, the brain is flooded with sights, sounds, smells, and signals from inside the body. Yet only a fraction of this information reaches our conscious awareness, thanks to neural…

Venus is one of the most hostile worlds in the solar system. Surface temperatures reach several hundred degrees Celsius, and the planet has no oceans comparable to those on Earth….

The Universe is so unimaginably immense, we’ll never be able to see all of it – yet some of its most intriguingly mysterious objects are located right in our own…

Black Panther has always been a gleaming jewel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. To this day, the first Black Panther movie is the MCU movie to get the most Oscar…

Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here on Earth. But controlling fusion reactions has other benefits. The process also…

Many people expect memory to fade as a normal part of aging. Yet some older adults, called SuperAgers, reach their 80s and 90s with memory abilities that match or even…

In the 1930s Werner Burau, a German mathematician, introduced a twisted geometrical mystery that would stand for nearly a century. Previously, mathematicians had shown that knots could be reformulated into…

WASHINGTON — Key ground stations in Spain operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have avoided serious damage from major wildfires in the country. NASA announced July 24 it…

An expanding universe makes measuring distance more complicated because space does not remain fixed while light travels through it. Galaxies continue to emit light, but that light may spend billions…

After weeks of stirring up gastrointestinal issues across the country, especially in the Midwest, the parasite Cyclospora—which lives on fresh produce and causes explosive diarrhea—is steering grocery runs and restaurant…

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American Fusion has officially cleared a major regulatory hurdle, securing research and development certification from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for all twelve registered models of its…

A UCLA Health study in mice has found that inflammation during pregnancy can produce lasting autism-like changes in offspring. The researchers also discovered that many of the resulting brain and…