Science Stories for 2024

Radio Signal From Space Repeats Every Hour, Defying Explanation 66
Boeing Starliner Docks With ISS 28
SpaceX Soars Through New Milestones in Test Flight of the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built 124
Boeing Spacecraft Carrying Two Astronauts Lifts Off On Historic Maiden Voyage 66
Aging Hubble Telescope Moves To 'One-Gyro' Operations 75
More Than Half of US Adults Will Have Cardiovascular Disease By 2050, Research Finds 169
Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed 40
Male Birth Control Gel Continues to Show Promise 152
Ozempic-Like Drugs Could Lower Sales of Junk Food 118
Are We Closer to a Cure for Diabetes? 75
China Successfully Lands Probe on the Moon's Far Side, Starts Collecting Samples 51
Boeing Starliner Launched Scrubbed Until at Least Wednesday After Redundant Computer Issue 41
World's First Bioprocessor Uses 16 Human Brain Organoids, Consumes Less Power 48
'Planetary Parade' Will See Six Planets Line Up In the Morning Sky 39
Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant 37
Biomedical Paper Retractions Have Quadrupled in 20 Years 27
Japan's Push To Make All Research Open Access is Taking Shape 8
Alzheimer's Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds 49
You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill 138
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy 42
AST SpaceMobile Stock Surges 69% After Verizon Satellite Internet Deal 2
Earthcare Cloud Mission Launches To Resolve Climate Unknowns 25
Rivers of Lava on Venus Reveal a More Volcanically Active Planet 24
Ditch Brightly Colored Plastic, Anti-Waste Researchers Tell Firms 82
North Korea Says Its Attempt To Put Another Spy Satellite Into Orbit Has Failed 20
Food Industry Launches 'Ferocious' Campaign Against Regulations on Ultraprocessed Foods 208
1 in 9 American Kids Were Diagnosed With ADHD, New Study Finds 175
Britain Covered Up Tainted Blood Scandal That Killed Thousands, Report Finds 78
New Warp Drive Concept Does Twist Space, Doesn't Move Us Very Fast 69
Countries Fail To Agree on Treaty To Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic 112
Crows Can 'Count' Out Loud, Study Shows 39
Euclid Telescope Spies Rogue Planets Floating Free In Milky Way 53
Ascension Cyberattack Continues To Disrupt Care At Hospitals 43
The First Crew Launch of Boeing's Starliner Capsule Is On Hold Indefinitely 32
Russia Likely Launched Counter Space Weapon Into Low Earth Orbit Last Week, Pentagon Says 70
'Pay Researchers To Spot Errors in Published Papers' 24
Neuralink To Test Brain Implant On Second Patient 47
Scientists Develop New Technique To Thaw Frozen Brain Tissue Without Harm 56
Another Online Pharmacy Bypasses the FDA To Offer Cut-Rate Weight Loss Drugs 124
Microplastics Found in Every Human Testicle in Study 170
Blue Origin Successfully Launches Six Passengers to the Edge of Space 34
US Defense Department 'Concerned' About ULA's Slow Progress on Satellite Launches 33
Study Confirms Einstein Prediction: Black Holes Have a 'Plunging Region' 61
Is America's Defense Department 'Rushing to Expand' Its Space War Capabilities? 46
Proteins In Blood Could Provide Early Cancer Warning 'By More Than Seven Years' 33
Hopes For Sustainable Jet Fuel Not Realistic, Report Finds 176
Bay Area City Orders Scientists To Stop Controversial Cloud Brightening Experiment 93
Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures 93
Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome 80
First Person To Receive a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Transplant Dies 25
Webb Telescope Finds a (Hot) Earth-Sized Planet With an Atmosphere 28
Is Dark Matter's Main Rival Theory Dead? 87
Could Stem Cells One Day Cure Diabetes? 42
NASA's Plan To Build a Levitating Robot Train on the Moon 28
'Tungsten Wall' Leads To Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough 45
UK Toddler Has Hearing Restored In World First Gene Therapy Trial 40
Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying To Figure Out Why. 73
The Most Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Human Brain Tissue 25
NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months 176
Chemicals In Car Interiors May Cause Cancer, and They're Required By US Law 60
Neuralink's First Implant Partly Detached From Patient's Brain 107
Record-Breaking Increase in CO2 Levels in World's Atmosphere 89
Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' In Whale Songs 50
Environmental Changes Are Fueling Human, Animal and Plant Diseases, Study Finds 32
AstraZeneca To Withdraw COVID Vaccine Globally as Demand Dips 83
Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer's 12
Theranos Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes Has Prison Sentence Reduced Again 72
Boeing Starliner's First Crewed Mission Scrubbed 45
Scientists Find a 'Missing Link' Between Poor Diet and Higher Cancer Risk 57
Plato's Final Hours Recounted In Scroll Found In Vesuvius Ash 153
Breakthrough Achieved In Nanometer-Resolution Imaging of 3D Chemistry 4
U.S. Seeks to Build World Pressure on Russia Over Space Nuclear Weapon 109
NASA's Moon Capsule Suffered Extensive Damage During 2022's Test Flight 31
The Highest Observatory On Earth Is Now Open 14
China Launches Moon Probe 29
Hubble Network Makes Bluetooth Connection With a Satellite For the First Time 83
FDA Qualifies Apple Watch's AFib History For Use In Clinical Studies 16
Pet Parrots Prefer Live Video-Calls Over Watching Pre-Recorded Videos 73
Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless 106
PFAS Increase Likelihood of Death By Cardiovascular Disease, Study Shows 34
Star Scientist's Claim of 'Reverse Aging' Draws Hail of Criticism 88
Even Walmart Thinks American Healthcare Is Too Expensive 237
NASA's Psyche Hits 25 Mbps From 140 Miles Away 62
Tether Buys $200 Million Majority Stake In Brain-Computer Interface Company 14
The Naked-Eye Sky Will (Briefly) Host a New Star 41
How Einstein Lost the Battle To Explain Quantum Reality 55
How Space Telescopes Spotted an Exoplanet With a Possible Hydrogen-Rich Atmosphere 9
Japan's Moon Lander Made It Through Another Lunar Night 10
Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution On Nuclear Weapons In Space 162
Two Lifeforms Merge Into One Organism For First Time In a Billion Years 75
China Reveals Most Detailed Geological Map of the Moon Ever Created 61
Judge Dismisses Superconductivity Physicist's Lawsuit Against University 21
Noise From Traffic Stunts Growth of Baby Birds, Study Finds 24
Vast DNA Tree of Life For Plants Revealed By Global Science Team 11
Generative AI Arrives In the Gene Editing World of CRISPR 22
Try Something New To Stop the Days Whizzing Past, Researchers Suggest 38
NASA Officially Greenlights $3.35 Billion Mission To Saturn's Moon Titan 70
Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates To Earth 54
Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading 72
Marketing Cancer Drugs To Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality 33
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Just Sent Its Last Message Home 27
Some Astronomers Will Re-Examine a 102-Year-Old Theory About the Universe's Expansion 77
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 16
NASA Veteran Behind Propellantless Propulsion Drive Announces Major Discovery 259
A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World 28
Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years 23
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration 14
Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says 123
NASA Confirms That Debris From ISS Crashed Into Florida Home 57
NASA Says New Plan Needed To Return Rocks From Mars; Current Mission Design Can't Deliver Before 2040 65
CNN Reporter 'Still Haunted' By Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster 94
AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes 315
Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Cheaper Stellerator Using Creative Magnet Workaround 41
73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles 47
Japanese Astronauts To Land On Moon As Part of New NASA Partnership 17
ESA Prepares To Create Solar Eclipses To Study the Sun 19
Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle 25
China Moving At 'Breathtaking Speed' In Final Frontier, Space Force Says 196
Computer Scientist Wins Turing Award for Seminal Work on Randomness 31
Sierra Space, Valued At $5.3 Billion, Eyes IPO To 'Accelerate the New Space Economy' 26
Synchron Readies Large-Scale Brain Implant Trial 22
ULA Launches Final Delta Rocket After 64 Years 22
Peter Higgs, Physicist Who Discovered Higgs Boson, Dies Aged 94 28
VCs Invest $90M in Varda Space Industries' Microgravity Drug Manufacturing 20
CNN Investigates 'Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight' 59
Have Scientists Finally Made Sense of Stephen Hawking's Famous Black Hole Formula? 26
How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day 41
NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months 58
Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace 222
Mars May Not Have Had Liquid Water Long Enough For Life To Form 53
New 3D Cosmic Map Raises Questions Over Future of Universe, Scientists Say 63
Are Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Fake? 90
NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon 23
Groundbreaking Trial To Grow 'Mini Liver' From Patient's Own Lymph Node 20
Scientists Complete Construction of the Biggest Digital Camera Ever 29
NASA To Create Time Standard For the Moon 75
'Russia Might Have Caused Havana Syndrome' 188
TikTok Is Bringing Its Dedicated STEM Feed To Europe 13
Trash From the ISS May Have Hit a House In Florida 135
Scientist Who Gene-edited Babies Back in Lab and 'Proud' of Past Work Despite Jailing 33
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet 118
America's FDA Forced to Settle 'Groundless' Lawsuit Over Its Ivermectin Warnings 350
Researchers Develop New Material That Converts CO2 into Methanol Using Sunlight 56
Henrietta Leavitt, Cosmology Pioneer, Receives Belated Obituary 14
Memories Are Made By Breaking DNA - and Fixing It 23
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds 73
Two Nights of Broken Sleep Can Make People Feel Years Older, Finds Study 43
Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at the Moon's Far Side, But Resistance May Be Futile 18
Pregnancy May Increase Biological Age 2 Years - But Some End Up 'Younger' 29
AI Surpasses Doctors In Spotting Early Breast Cancer Signs In NHS Trial 57
More Than Half of Chickenpox Diagnoses Are Wrong, Study Finds 52
Geologists Reject Declaration of Anthropocene Epoch 41
First Human Transplant of a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Performed 46
Superconductor Scientist Engaged in Research Misconduct, Probe Finds 22
Neuralink Shows First Brain-Chip Patient Playing Online Chess Using His Mind 52
Physicist Claims Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is Twice As Old As We Thought 243
Europe Turns To the Falcon 9 To Launch Its Navigation Satellites 93
Intermittent Fasting Linked To Higher Risk of Cardiovascular Death, Research Suggests 107
Astronaut Thomas Stafford, Commander of Apollo 10, Dies At 93 29
EPA Bans Chrysotile Asbestos 98
5-Year Study Finds No Brain Abnormalities In 'Havana Syndrome' Patients 38
AI-Generated Science 32
What's Next for SpaceX's Starship? 104
Tiny Sea Creatures Could Help Unravel Flight MH370's Mysterious Disappearance. 28
Pi Calculated to 105 Trillion Digits. (Stored on 1 Petabyte of SSDs) 95
Pet DNA Testing Company Mistakenly Identifies a Human as a Dog 74
Aging Voyager 1 Sends Back Response After 'Poke' Signal From Earth 30
Can Interlune Mine Helium-3 on the Moon? 67
Scientists Reveal Never-Before-Seen Map of the Milky Way's Central Engine 11
Giant Volcano Discovered On Mars 23
Southern Oregon Now Boasts World's Largest Dark Sky Sanctuary 20
SpaceX Celebrates Third Launch of Starship Rocket Despite Loss of Contact 70
Paul Alexander, 'The Man In the Iron Lung', Has Died 76
FAA Grants License For SpaceX's Third Starship Launch 62
Why Are So Many Young People Getting Cancer? What the Data Say 207
'Larger Than Everest' Comet Could Become Visible To Naked Eye This Month 54
Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim To Ban Lab-Grown Meat 428
Conflicting Values For Hubble Constant Not Due To Measurement Error, Study Finds 64
3D Images of Over 13,000 Museum Specimens Now Free To Everyone 7
Surgeons Perform UK's First Operation Using Apple's Vision Pro Headset 47
US Intelligence Officer Explains Roswell, UFO Sightings 43
Are We in the 'Anthropocene,' the Human Age? Scientists Say: Nope 63
'Monumental' Experiment Suggests How Life on Earth May Have Started 127
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says 39
Was Avi Loeb Led to His 'Alien Debris' Meteor by the Sound of a Truck? 53
Study Finds That We Could Lose Science If Publishers Go Bankrupt 66
Astronomers Detect 'Waterworld With a Boiling Ocean' in Deep Space 25
Mexico Argues Glyphosate In GM Corn Is Unsafe For Human Consumption 106
Microscopic Plastics Could Raise Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack, Study Says 57
Company That Plans To Bring Back the Mammoth Takes a Key Step 29
Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Space, May Have Gone Dark 80
Millions of Research Papers at Risk of Disappearing From the Internet 26
New 'Water Batteries' Are Cheaper, Recyclable, And Won't Explode 73
China To Debut Large Reusable Rockets In 2025 and 2026 43
Blue Origin Targets 2025 For Cargo Lander's Inaugural Moon Trip, With Humans To Follow 19
Setback For Hopes of Life As NASA Says Less Oxygen On Jupiter Moon Than Thought 25
Ask Slashdot: Can You Picture Things in Your Mind? 243
Decades-Old Missing Person Mystery Solved After Relative Uploads DNA To GEDMatch 30
NASA Shutters $2B Satellite Refueling Project, Blames Contractor For Delays. 30
Japan's Moon Lander Survived a 354-Hour Lunar Night. Now It Faces a Second One 11
Can NASA Return Mars Samples to Earth? New Audit Raises Doubts 71
New Study Shows Like-Charged Particles Attract or Repel in Solution 18
Ransomware Attack Hampers Prescription Drug Sales at 90% of US Pharmacies 81
The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science 51
Nikon and NASA Are Putting a Mirrorless Camera on the Moon 21
Ultraprocessed Foods Linked To Heart Disease, Diabetes, Mental Disorders and Early Death, Study Finds 221
'Mathematically Perfect' Star System Being Investigated For Potential Alien Tech 71
The Strange and Turbulent Global World of Ant Geopolitics 10
Microplastics Found In Every Human Placenta Tested In Study 105
NASA's Crash Into an Asteroid May Have Altered Its Shape 34
Moon Landing's Payloads Include Archive of Human Knowledge, Lunar Data Center Test, NFTs 75
Scientists Pursue Cancer Vaccines Tailored to the Genetic Makeup of an Individual's Tumor 49
Covid Death Toll in US Likely 16% Higher Than Official Tally, Study Says 311
5,000-Pound Satellite Successfully 'Deorbited' Wednesday 20
Odysseus Moon Lander 'Tipped Over On Touchdown' 87
Air Pollution Could Be Significant Cause of Dementia 64
The Sun Just Launched Three Huge Solar Flares in 24 Hours. 50
US Lands Unmanned 'Odysseus' Spacecraft On Moon 29
Varda Space, Rocket Lab Nail First-of-Its-Kind Spacecraft Landing in Utah 24
FDA Warns Against Using Smartwatches and Smart Rings To Measure Blood Sugar 50
Engineers Use AI To Wrangle Fusion Power For the Grid 69
University of Alabama Pauses IVF Services After Court Embryo Ruling 309
Making Alarms More Musical Can Save Lives 47
Neuralink's First Human Patient Able To Control Mouse Through Thinking, Musk Says 73
Astronomers Discover Universe's Brightest Object 43
Thanks to Machine Learning, Scientist Finally Recover Text From The Charred Scrolls of Vesuvius 45
What Happens After Throughput to DNA Storage Drives Surpasses 2 Gbps? 35
To Combat Space Pollution, Japan Plans Launch of World's First Wooden Satellite 59
Martians Wanted: NASA Opens Call for Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission 55
Scientists Discover Water On Surface of an Asteroid 24
Scientists Propose AI Apocalypse Kill Switches 104
Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall 97
Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat With Gigantic Penis 72
OSIRIS-REx's Final Haul: 121.6 Grams From Asteroid Bennu 17
Moon Company Intuitive Machines Begins First Mission After SpaceX Launch 7
Scientists Resort To Once-Unthinkable Solutions To Cool the Planet 205
California Banned Single-Use Plastic Bags. Now It's Tossing More Plastic. 192
Early Blood Test To Predict Dementia Is Step Closer As Biological Markets Identified 39
Chernobyl's Mutant Wolves Appear To Have Developed Resistance To Cancer 76
Wearable AI-Powered Neurotech Startup Promises 'Electric Medicine' and Wellness Benefits 30
Fusion Research Facility's Final Tritium Experiments Yield New Energy Record 61
India To Launch Android Into Space To Test Crewed Launch Capability 20
AI Cannot Be Used To Deny Health Care Coverage, Feds Clarify To Insurers 81
SpaceX Launches NASA's PACE Satellite To Study Earth's Oceans, Air and Climate 7
Jury Awards Climate Scientist $1 Million In Defamation Lawsuit 153
EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade 59
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory To Lay Off 8% of Workforce 43
Struggling 23andMe Is Exploring Splitting the DNA Company In Two 35
A Chatbot Helped More People Access Mental-Health Services 25
NASA Spots Signs of Twin Volcanic Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Io 12

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