Science Stories

A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World 14
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 111
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 93
AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes 314
Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Cheaper Stellerator Using Creative Magnet Workaround 41
73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles 46
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
Harvard Astronomy Professor Thinks He Has New Evidence of Alien Spacecraft 95
Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time In Space 41
A Famous Climate Scientist Is In Court With Big Stakes For Attacks On Science 272
Space-based Research May Lead To Cancer 'Kill Switch' 22
Cern Aims To Build $21 Billion Collider To Unlock Secrets of Universe 103
Scientists Have 3D Bioprinted Functioning Human Brain Tissue 51
Is the US Space Force Researching Space-Based Solar Power? 38
152 Birds Named After People Will Be Renamed - But How? 258
Japan's Moon Lander Snaps Final Photo, Goes Dormant Before 354-Hour Lunar Night 12
Firms Churning Out Fake Papers Are Now Bribing Journal Editors 32
Could We Fight Global Warming With A Giant Umbrella in Outer Space? 194
Mathematicians Finally Solved Feynman's 'Reverse Sprinkler' Problem 58
EPA Proposes 'Forever Chemicals' Be Considered Hazardous Substances 51
For the First Time NASA Has Asked Industry About Private Missions To Mars 38
Should You Flush With Toilet Lid Up Or Down? Study Says It Doesn't Matter 132
A Shape-Shifting Plastic With a Flexible Future 28
Biogen Dumps Dubious Alzheimer's Drug After Profit-Killing FDA Scandal 29
Add Bacteria To the List of Things That Can Run Doom 41
First Lab-Grown Eel Meat Revealed 110
Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found In the Human Digestive System 47
Neuralink Implants Brain Chip In First Human 107
Amid Recall Crisis, Philips Agrees To Stop Selling Sleep Apnea Machines In the United States 61
UK To Ban Disposable Vapes 131
Scientists Document First-Ever Transmitted Alzheimer's Cases, Tied To No-Longer-Used Medical Procedure 30
Space Shuttle Endeavor's Final 'Flight': Hoisted By Crane Tonight Into Future Site of a Museum 30
Hubble Spots Water Vapor in Small Exoplanet's Atmosphere 28
Japan's Moon Lander Overcomes Power Crisis, Starts Scientific Operations 35
Photo Shows Japan's Moon Lander Arrived Upside-Down 22
Did a Lake on Mars Once Contain Life? 17
Exercising 25 Minutes a Week Increases Brain Volume - and May Slow Memory Decline 62
Astronomers Discover Giant Ancient Stars in Milky Way 25
NASA's Ingenuity Mission Is Over 73
The Cancer That Doctors Don't Want to Call Cancer 163
Top Harvard Cancer Researchers Accused of Scientific Fraud; 37 Studies Affected 172
New Blood Test That Screens For Alzheimer's May Be a Step Closer To Reality, Study Suggests 75
Gummy Vitamins Are Just Candy 143
NASA Finally Unlocks Canister of Dust From 4.6 Billion-Year-Old Asteroid 47
CDC Now Encouraging Doctors To Consider More Blood Testing For 'Forever Chemicals' 65
Japan's Successful Moon Landing Was the Most Precise Ever 32
Cameroon Starts World-First Malaria Mass Vaccine Rollout 54
Potential Cancer Vaccine Entering Stage 3 Trials 71
NASA Regains Contact With Its 'Ingenuity' Mars Helicopter 12
How Scientists are Fighting Drug-Resistant Superbugs with Phages 39
Nearby Galaxy's Giant Black Hole Is Real, 'Shadow' Image Confirms 30
Ultra-Large Structure Discovered In Distant Space Challenges Cosmological Principle 60
James Webb Telescope Detects Earliest Known Black Hole 7
Water Ice Buried At Mars' Equator Is Over 2 Miles Thick 55
Japan's SLIM Probe Lands On Moon, But Suffers Power Problem 17
Why Every Coffee Shop Looks the Same 67
How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model? 45
Physicists Design a Way to Detect Quantum Behavior in Large Objects, Like Us 20
Hospitals Owned By Private Equity Are Harming Patients, Reports Find 199
US Must Beat China Back To the Moon, Congress Tells NASA 114
Google DeepMind's New AI System Can Solve Complex Geometry Problems 10
Cancer Deaths Are Falling, but There May Be an Asterisk 29
Human 'Behavioral Crisis' At Root of Climate Breakdown, Say Scientists 300
Japan Startup Eyes Fusion Laser To Shoot Down Space Junk From Ground 48
Urban Youth Most Isolated in Largest Cities 101
Scientists Film Genetically-Altered Plants 'Talking' to Neighboring Plants With Biochemicals 33
Seeing Blue At Night May Not Be What's Keeping You Up After All 52
Private US Moon Lander Now Headed For Earth, Might Burn Up In Atmosphere 41
New Paper on 'MOND' Argues That Gravity Changes At Very Low Accelerations 81
NASA Finally Unlocks Stuck Fasteners on Asteroid Sample Capsule 37
NASA Unveils Revolutionary X-59 'Quiet' Supersonic Aircraft 90
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune To Lure Scientists Away From Universities 77
Are Fingerprints Unique? Not Really, AI-Based Study Finds 60
Scientists Scramble To Keep Dog Aging Project Alive 42
Beaver Ponds May Exacerbate Warming In Arctic, Scientists Say 95
NASA Selects Bold Proposal To 'Swarm' Proxima Centauri With Tiny Probes 113
Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst 27
NASA Postpones Plans To Send Humans To Moon 71
New 'MindEar' App Can Reduce Debilitating Impact of Tinnitus, Say Researchers 50
Moon Lander Problem Threatens Mission After Vulcan Rocket Makes Successful Debut 51
Scientists Discover 100 To 1000 Times More Plastics In Bottled Water 204
Have Scientific Breakthroughs Declined? 114
Whatever Happened to the Surviving Apollo Astronauts? 48
Neptune Is Much Less Blue Than Depictions 38
SpaceX Has Launched Starlink's First Direct-to-Smartphone Satellites 13
Navajo Nation Objects To Landing Human Remains On Moon, Prompting Last-Minute White House Meeting 193
Consumer Reports Finds 'Widespread' Presence of Plastics In Food 37
Drones Are the New Drug Mules 34
Flowers Are Evolving To Have Less Sex 37
New Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape 16
World's First Partial Heart Transplant Grows Valves and Arteries 17
ChatGPT Bombs Test On Diagnosing Kids' Medical Cases With 83% Error Rate 70
UCLA Will Transform Dead Westside Mall Into Major Science Innovation Center 23
All Science Journals Will Now Do an AI-Powered Check for Image Fraud 16
New Antibiotic Can Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria 63
Scientists Solve the Mystery of How Jellyfish Can Regenerate a Tentacle In Days 17
There's a Big Difference In How Your Brain Processes the Numbers 4 and 5 81
India To Study Black Holes With First Satellite Launch After US 27
Will 2024 Bring a 'Major Turning Point' in US Health Care? 154
Navajo Nation President Asks NASA to Delay Moon Launch Over Possible Human Remains 203
Could We Build a Concert Venue in Space? 75
'Behold - the Best Space Images of 2023' 5
Is It Possible to Beam Solar Power From Outer Space? 130
Novel Helmet Liner 30 Times Better At Stopping Concussions 50
SpaceX Wows With a Double Header of Final 2023 Rocket Launches 43
Chemicals of 'Concern' Found In Philips Breathing Machines 43
Scientists Still Shoot For the Moon With Patent-Free Covid Drug 11
Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA's Artemis Towards Black Hole 83
New US Immigration Rules Spur More Visa Approvals For STEM Workers 102
Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells In the Lab Using Vibrating Molecules 37
The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won't Be the Last 60

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