
New York Times - 18 hours 23 min ago
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft could make another trip to the International Space Station as soon as December, but this time carrying only cargo.

Nature - 18 hours 39 min ago
Researchers in the field are right to focus on biosafety, ethics and the involvement of patient groups and the public.

Nature - 18 hours 39 min ago
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Nature - 18 hours 39 min ago
Tools that inform clinical decision-making require rigorous assessments equivalent to processes used to approve drugs and self-driving cars.

Australian Geographic - 18 hours 43 min ago
Meet the team championing the peatlands of Southwest Australia. The post For peat’s sake appeared first on Australian Geographic .

PBS Newshour - 19 hours 43 min ago
The Trump administration is rolling back federal fuel economy standards for new vehicles. The move reverses policies meant to increase fuel efficiency to encourage greater use of electric vehicles. The boost for gasoline-powered vehicles comes as the war in Iran continues to drive up oil prices. Amna Nawaz discussed the changes with David Shepardson of Reuters. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

PBS Newshour - 19 hours 45 min ago
Cleanup efforts are underway after a powerful nor'easter battered parts of the East Coast, bringing dangerous waves, flooding and damaging winds from New England to New Jersey. The storm also knocked out power for many. Jeffrey Brown reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

PBS Newshour - 19 hours 54 min ago
In our news wrap Monday, UK police are investigating five British nationals in connection with a possible plot at an American airbase, prosecutors in New York say they are reopening a criminal investigation into an alleged sexual assault at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 and officials in Ukraine say at least seven people were killed and more than 80 were wounded in Russian strikes. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Popular Mechanics - 22 hours 3 min ago
The most devastating weapons conceived by humanity cause cellular damage as a side effect. What would happen if the genetic mutation itself were the nefarious goal?...

Ars Technica - 22 hours 8 min ago
The design requires less energy to capture CO 2 than current systems.

Ars Technica - 1 day 42 min ago
19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong due to a typo.

New York Times - 1 day 46 min ago
Flooding in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., on Saturday.

Science Alert - 1 day 3 hours ago
The golden interior of a dilution refrigerator used to keep IBM's superconducting quantum processors at extremely low temperatures. (Graham Carlow for IBM/Flickr, CC BY ND-2.0) A new milestone. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 5 hours ago
It's 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It's still dark outside, and I'm in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week, the power goes out. No lights, no mixer to finish my daughter's puttu her favorite rice dish no kettle, no toaster. The bathroom is dark, and the kids are upset. It will probably be hours before the power comes back on, so I grab a flashlight and...

Newser - 1 day 6 hours ago
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas. The company had...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 7 hours ago
Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It's shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too. Last December, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic's Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rover , with human planners checking and adjusting the route before upload. In May, NASA and IBM put a compressed AI model on the International Space Station and a satellite to identify things like floods and clouds...

The Atlantic - 1 day 7 hours ago
Storms driven by El Ni o are pulling chunks of coast away.

Wired - 1 day 7 hours ago
Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between two separate spacecraft.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 9 hours ago
Your average frog loves a good meaty fly. But to this amphibian predator, a stationary fly might not register as something worth nabbing, if it is seen at all. "[A frog] will starve to death surrounded by food if it is not moving," wrote the authors of a 1959 paper in Proceedings of the IRE […] The post The Frog and the Fly appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Science Daily - 1 day 11 hours ago
A compound the body can make after eating pomegranates, walnuts, and some berries improved measures of heart function by up to 80% in animal models of a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure. Urolithin A helped stiff heart tissue relax and reduced scarring and abnormal enlargement. It also improved relaxation in engineered human heart tissue.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 16 hours ago
A dolphin on the Great Barrier Reef has been observed chasing fish until they regurgitate their meals, then swooping in and eating what's left. The post Caught on camera: Dolphin chases fish until they give up' food appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 8 hours ago
Landmark legislation requiring large employers to cover infertility treatments went into effect at the beginning of the year. It's changed lives and boosted clinic caseloads and left the uninsured scrambling to afford care.