Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out
The exodus has set off alarms among staff at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “My main concern […]
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SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight
After being postponed twice—and after multiple failed attempts—Starship’s tenth test flight was a success.
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NASA’s Largest Satellite Antenna Ever Has Just Unfurled in Space
NISAR, a giant orbiting antenna 39 feet in diameter, will monitor changes to glaciers, forests, and the Earth’s crust, providing
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What It’s Like to Work at a Body Farm
The scavengers are tricky, the smells are gross, and your colleagues are corpses. But some people—mostly women!—love this job.
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IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms
The tool models the sun using AI, and its developers say it can anticipate solar flares 16 percent more accurately
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Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave
In March 2025 the Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun, but lasting only
Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
This deadly bacteria, which hits low-income people the hardest, was once an “only in New York” problem. Extreme heat is
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Scientists Find a New Moon Orbiting Uranus
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40
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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station
China has rolled out a chatbot on its Tiangong space station. Its mission: to improve safety, navigation, and coordination in
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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine
Visitors have unearthed over 35,000 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park since 1972.
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