Science Stories

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
Top Scientists on the One Mystery on Earth They'd Like To Solve 64
The Negative Ramifications From Invitation Declines Are Less Severe Than We Think 37
30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's 29
Why the Dinosaurs Died 52
Livestock Surprise Scientists with Their Complex, Emotional Minds 73
World Modelling and 'The Personal, Political Art of Board-Game Design' 10
Vibrating Pill May Give Dieters a Feeling of Fullness, Study Suggests 56
Psychologists Pinpoint Average Age Children Become Santa Sceptics 242
Risk of Penile Fractures Rises at Christmas, Doctors Find 70
How Two Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don't Work 143
US Commits To Landing an International Astronaut On the Moon 49
California Workers Say Herbicide Is Giving Them Parkinson's 43
Blue Origin's Suborbital Rocket Flies For First Time In 15 Months 31
NASA's Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space Via Laser 24
SETI Scientists Report Discovery of More Fast Radio Bursts 19
Secret Lagoon Found Resembling Earth 3.5 BIllion Years Ago and What Life on Mars Would Look Like 33
Orbit Fab Wants to Create 'Gas Stations' in Space for Satellites 53
US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds 23
'Life May Have Everything It Needs to Exist on Saturn's Moon Enceladus' 27
Seeking 'Superbug' Antibiotics, Scientists Use AI to Synthesize Molecules from Neanderthals 12
Asteroid Pieces Brought to Earth May Offer a Clue to Life's Origin 26
The Biggest Problem With Lab-Grown Chicken Is Growing the Chicken 74
Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees 155
Jeff Bezos Says Blue Origin Needs To Be 'Much Faster' 127
Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Morning Sickness To Hormone Made By Fetus 145
NASA's Voyager 1 Probe In Interstellar Space Can't Phone Home 34
Google DeepMind Uses LLM To Solve Unsolvable Math Problem 48
The Excitement of 70,000 Swifties Can Shake the Earth 46
Are Tiny Black Holes Hiding Within Giant Stars? 43
Human Brain Cells Hooked Up To a Chip Can Do Speech Recognition 56
Every Homeopathic Eye Drop Should Be Pulled Off the Market, FDA Says 177
Scientists Discover Nuclear Fission Amongst the Stars 31
AI As Good As Doctors At Checking X-Rays 83
Transparent Wood Could Soon Find Uses In Smartphone Screens, Insulated Windows 33
Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear In Once-in-a-Lifetime Coincidence 33
Hidden Impacts of Ferocious Volcanic Eruption Finally Revealed 20
SpaceX Will Help US Space Force Launch Its Secretive X-37B Space Plane 36
US Diet Committee Debates Whether Potatoes are Vegetables or 'Starchy Grain' 129
FDA Approves CRISPR-Based Medicine For Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease 43
White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs 151
Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 48
'Unprecedented Mass Coral Bleaching' Expected in 2024, Says Expert 50
Particle Physicists Offer a Road Map for the Next Decade 43
Nikon Makes Special Firmware For NASA To Block Galactic Cosmic Rays In Photos 31
Light Can Be Reflected Not Only In Space But Also In Time 51
The Extremely Large Telescope Will Transform Astronomy 35
Wasabi Linked To 'Substantial' Boost In Memory, Japanese Study Finds 78
Remote Collaboration Fuses Fewer Breakthrough Ideas 42
Earth on Verge of Five Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Warn 234
SpaceX Plans Key NASA Demonstration For Next Starship Launch 15
'Wobbly Spacetime' May Help Resolve Contradictory Physics Theories 90
US Students' Math Scores Plunge In Global Education Assessment 131
India Reveals That It Has Returned Lunar Spacecraft To Earth Orbit 18
Research Finds That Renting Ages You Faster Than Smoking, Obesity 267
Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can 'Hear' Them 22
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers 71
Plants May Be Absorbing 20% More CO2 Than We Thought, New Models Find 81
Tiny Living Robots Made From Human Cells Surprise Scientists 14
Why Mexico Wants You to Virtually Adopt an Axolotl Salamander 25
Amazon Taps SpaceX For Kuiper Launch 12
Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' 98
A Strong Solar Storm Is Inbound With a Full Halo CME 46
Brain Study Suggests Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience 10
A Star With Six Planets That Orbit Perfectly in Sync 30
Genetic Data On 500,000 Volunteers In UK To Be Released For Scientific Study 18
Nikola Tesla's Historic Wardenclyffe Lab Site At Risk After Devastating Fire 22
'Global Science is Splintering Into Two - And This is Becoming a Problem' 168
Internet Use Does Not Appear To Harm Mental Health, Oxford Study Finds 80
Cheaper Microscope Could Bring Protein Mapping Technique To the Masses 10
'There is a Scientific Fraud Epidemic' 148
Science Is Littered With 'Zombie Studies' - Retracted Research Still Referenced By Others 71
A NASA Spacecraft Could Carry Your Name to Jupiter in 2024 51
World's Biggest Iceberg on the Move After 30 Years 35
Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, But Emissions May be Twice as Deadly 83
The Most Powerful Cosmic Ray Since the Oh-My-God Particle Puzzles Scientists 63
NASA Chooses Blue Origin's Rocket To Launch Smallsat Mission To Mars 71
Aftershocks Can Occur Centuries After Original Earthquake, Says Study 37
Deep Space Astronauts May Be Prone To Erectile Dysfunction, Study Finds 85
Earth Receives Laser-Beamed Message From 10 Million Miles Away 31
FDA Considers First CRISPR Gene Editing Treatment That May Cure Sickle Cell 39
'Electrocaloric' Heat Pump Could Transform Air Conditioning 160
A Viral Post on Social Media Will Clear the Medical Debt of Strangers 221
Archaeologists Unearth a Secret Lost Language From 3,000 Years Ago 123
Could AI and Tech Advancements Bring a New Era of Evolution? 117
SpaceX's Starship Reaches Outer Space Before Intentional Detonation 125
Race Cannot Be Used To Predict Heart Disease, Scientists Say 97
Why Superconductor Research is in a 'Golden Age' - Despite Controversy 5
Scientists Use Raspberry Pi Tech To Protect NASA Telescope Data 38
UK Approves World's First CRISPR-Based Medicine 21
FAA Clears SpaceX To Launch Second Starship Flight 19
Global Decline In Male Fertility Linked To Common Pesticides 144
Planet Where It Rains Sand Revealed By Nasa Telescope 22
Amazon To Stop Selling Seven Eyedrops After FDA Warning 22
Airbus Introduces 'Detumbler' Device To Address Satellite Tumbling In Low Earth Orbit 23
Lost NASA Tool Bag Can Be Seen With Binoculars 74
A Supernova 'Destroyed' Some of Earth's Ozone For a Few Minutes In 2022 53
AI Could Predict Heart Attack Risk Up To 10 Years in the Future, Finds Oxford Study 21
Japan To Create $6.6 Billion Fund To Develop Outer Space Industry 22
NASA's Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low 13
Cancer Researchers Show CRISPR-Edited CAR T Cells Could Improve Immunotherapy 11
Researchers Identify a 'Switch' That Might Someday Kill Tumor Cells 29
Covid Lockdowns 'Were Worth It', Argues Infectious Disease Expert on CNN 274
Oldest, Massive Black Hole Discovered With JWST Data. Confirms 'Collapsed Gas Cloud' Theory 18
Scientists Build Yeast With Artificial DNA 29
Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8, Dies At 95 21
Doctors Complete First Successful Face and Whole-Eye Transplant 27
The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn To Horror Movies and Haunted Houses 25
SpaceX Will Launch the Space Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane On Falcon Heavy 31
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Hospitalized In Mexico City 84
Number of Species at Risk of Extinction Doubles To 2 Million, Says Study 21
Amazon Expands Healthcare Push With One Medical Benefits For Prime Members 55
How Big is Science's Fake-Paper Problem? 127
Euclid Telescope: First Images Revealed From 'Dark Universe' Mission 10
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams On Demand 98
Nature Retracts Controversial Superconductivity Paper By Embattled Physicist 36
Is It Time To Rethink Naming of Species? 239
Parkinson's Patient Able To Walk Again Without Problems After Spinal Implant 14
'ChatGPT Detector' Catches AI-Generated Papers With Unprecedented Accuracy 38
Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow 155
Scientists Think They've Found 'Blobs' From Planet that Collided with Earth to Form the Moon 25
Spacecraft Metals Left In the Wake of Humanity's Path To the Stars 20
A SpaceX 'Falcon 9' Booster Rocket Has Launched 18 Times Successfully, a New Record 86
FSF Warns About the Perils of Medical Devices with Un-Free Software 58
NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid 18
NASA Open To Extending ISS Beyond 2030 21
Leap Seconds Could Become Leap Minutes 103
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed From Apollo 13, Is Dead At 87 28
A Giant Leap for the Leap Second 53
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Bets AI Will Shake Up Scientific Research 30
In a Surprising Finding, Light Can Make Water Evaporate Without Heat 85
Rats Have an Imagination, New Research Finds 45
Researchers Revolt Against Weekend Conferences 214
Air Pollution Raises Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Says Landmark Indian Study 38
A World Record In Race Walking Is Erased After the Course Was Measured Wrong 59
Anger Can Lead To Better Results When Tackling Tricky Tasks, Study Finds 90
Open-Access Reformers Launch Next Bold Publishing Plan 10
Asteroid Dust Caused 15-Year Winter That Killed Dinosaurs, Scientists Say 135
Drugmakers Are Set To Pay 23andMe Millions To Access Consumer DNA 106
FDA Warns of Infection Risk From 26 Big-Brand Eye Drops 37
The Race To Destroy PFAS, the Forever Chemicals 36
LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit 22
Are Face Masks Effective? CBS News Explains What We Know 391
For the First Time, Scientists Have Fired Up the World's Smallest Particle Accelerators 26
Adult ADHD May Be Associated With an Increased Risk of Dementia, Study Finds 25
Google Can Turn ANC Earbuds Into a Heart Rate Monitor With No Extra Hardware 20
New Agreement Enables US Launches From Australian Spaceports 24
Breakthrough Kidney Stone Procedure Makes It Possible For Astronauts To Travel To Mars 70
Scientists Call Out Rogue Emissions From China at Global Ozone Summit 60
Gene-Editing Trial on Three Individuals for HIV Cure Yields Uncertain Result 16
Around 20 Minutes of Exercise a Day May Balance Out the Harms of Sitting, Study Finds 79
Pigeons Problem-Solve Similarly To Artificial Intelligence, Research Shows 54
Mars Has a Surprise Layer of Molten Rock Inside 35
Can Humans Have Babies In Space? SpaceBorn United Wants To Find Out 105
NASA's First Two-Way End-to-End Laser Communications System 14
Scientist, After Decades of Study, Concludes: We Don't Have Free Will 347
Scientists Create World's Most Water-Resistant Surface 46
One Month After Experimental Pig Heart Transplant, Doctors Say They See No Signs of Rejection or Infection 37
Masks Work. So What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis? 501
NASA Transmits Patches to the Two Voyager Probes Launched in 1977 74
Could a Mud Lake on Mars Be Hiding Signs of Ancient Life? 19
California Supervolcano: Caltech's 'Chilling' Discovery In Long Valley Caldera 26
JWST's Disconnect With Cosmology Models Linked to 'Bursty Star Formations' 18
Next Year, SpaceX Aims To Average One Launch Every 2.5 Days 27
Frying Pan Company Sued for Claiming Temperatures That Rival the Sun 124
Pfizer Hikes Price of COVID Antiviral Paxlovid From $530 To Nearly $1,400 169
A Simple Streetlight Hack Could Protect Astronomy From Urban Light Pollution 160
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted To Drugs 265
India Plans To Land Astronauts On the Moon In 2040 86
Scientists Call on Ministers To Cut Limits For 'Forever Chemicals' in UK Tap Water 16
Amazon Starts Delivering Medications by Drone in Texas City 29
Scientists Surprised By Source of Largest Quake Detected on Mars 17
Scientists Propose Sweeping New Law of Nature, Expanding On Evolution 112
Blue Origin's New Spacecraft Can Build Projects In Space 38
World Rugby To Introduce Smart Mouthguards To Detect Player Concussions 35
Roundup Herbicide Ingredient Connected To Epidemic Levels of Chronic Kidney Disease 106
Argentina's Presidential Front Runner Vows To Slash Science Funding 151
Long-Dormant Viruses Are Now Waking Up After 50,000 Years as Planet Warms 171
Could The Next Big Solar Storm Fry the Grid? 44
Audit Calls NASA's Goal To Reduce Artemis Rocket Costs 'Highly Unrealistic,' Threat To Deep Space Exploration 50
Mathematician Warns US Spies May Be Weakening Next-Gen Encryption 78
NASA Launches Psyche, a Mission To Explore a Metal Asteroid 24
Woman's Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test 33
World-First Trial of Gene Therapy To Cure Form of Deafness Begins 14
Scientists Use CRISPR To Make Chickens More Resistant To Bird Flu 35
NASA Unveils First Glimpse of Space Rock Collected From Asteroid 17
US Space Force Pauses Generative AI Use Based on Security Concerns 20
A New Law of Physics Could Support the Idea We're Living In a Simulation 170
Postdoc Career Optimism On the Rise 33
Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components 17
Can These Fungus-Studying Scientists Make the Planet More Resilient to Climate Change? 49
How Edwin Hubble Expanded the Universe 100 Years Ago 26
Australian Scientists Use 'Age of Empires' To Simulate Ant Warfare 11
MIT Creates an Implantable Device That Produces Insulin 18
Scientists Discover the Highest Energy Gamma-Rays Ever From a Pulsar 12
Fluorescent Mammals Are Much More Common Than You'd Think 30
US Nutrition Panel's Ties To Top Food Giants Revealed In New Report 41
US Science Agencies on Track To Hit 25-Year Funding Low 108
Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System 38
Prada To Design NASA's New Moon Suit 84
September Broke the Global Heat Record by a 'Gobsmackingly Bananas' Margin 142
A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky 41
USFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity To Help Endangered Species 12
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded To 3 Scientists for Exploring the Nanoworld 10
NASA Plans To Build Houses On the Moon By 2040 100
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded To 3 Scientists for Illuminating How Electrons Move 30
James Webb Space Telescope's First Spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 Planet 28
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
ESA Delays Vega C Return To Flight To Late 2024 1
The Orion Nebula Is Full of Impossible Enigmas That Come in Pairs 25
Nobel Prize Awarded To Covid Vaccine Pioneers 184
'Cancer Moonshot' Projects Funded Include Implant to Sense and Treat Cancer, Tumor-Targetting Bacteria 42
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress 89
People Experience 'New Dimensions of Reality' When Dying, Groundbreaking Study Reports 110
NASA Opens OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid-Sample Canister 21
How a Thinktank Got the Cost of Net Zero for the UK Wildly Wrong 124
Top Chinese Scientist Questions India's Claim To Reaching Moon's South Pole 91
First Evidence of Spinning Black Hole Detected by Scientists 20
Bids For ISS Demolition Rights Are Now Open, NASA Declares 102
Nothing's the Matter With Antimatter, New Experiment Confirms 109
The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists 122
Chinese Astronauts May Build a Base Inside a Lunar Lava Tube 75
World's First Drug To Regrow Teeth Enters Clinical Trials 61
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin To Replace CEO Bob Smith With Amazon Exec Dave Limp 27
After Seven Years, Sample Collected From Asteroid Finally Returns to Earth 34
'Laugh then Think': Strange Research Honored at 33rd Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony 15
India's Moon Lander Has Not Replied to Its First Wake-Up Call 34
China's Quest for Human Genetic Data Spurs Fears of a DNA Arms Race 32
Advances in Eye Scans and Protein Structure Win 2023 Lasker Awards 5
NASA's Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa 26
SpaceX Rocket Launches Starlink Satellites On Record-Breaking 17th Flight 46
Neuralink Is Recruiting Subjects For the First Human Trial of Its Brain-Computer Interface 85
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry To Earth 66
RNA Has Been Recovered From an Extinct Species For the First Time 38
The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term For It: 'Noctalgia' 122
Avi Loeb Says Meteor Analysis Shows It Originated Outside Our Solar System 86
New 'Inverse Vaccine' Shows Potential to Treat MS and Other Autoimmune Diseases 73
Firefly Aerospace Sets Launch Speed Record For US Space Force 28

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