2025-04-30

DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people

People in Picuris Pueblo wanted to know how they got there, contacted researchers. [...]

2025-04-30

Research roundup: Tattooed tardigrades and splash-free urinals

Also: The first live footage of a colossal baby squid; digitally unfolding an early medieval manuscript. [...]

2025-04-30

Trump’s Policies Are Creating Uncertainty for Fossil Fuel Companies

The Trump administration aims to make fossil fuels cheap—so cheap they wouldn’t be worth extracting. “‘Drill, baby, drill’ is nothing short of a myth,” one oil executive has said. [...]

2025-04-30

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.' [...]

2025-04-30

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

In his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory. [...]

2025-04-29

The Morning After: Google gives Android its own show

Google I/O is usually where the company reveals what’s happening with its smartphone OS for the next 12 months, but this year, Android is getting its own thing. A week ahead of I/O, Google will deep [...]

2025-04-29

As Measles Cases Surge, Mexico Issues a US Travel Alert

The border state of Chihuahua has recorded 713 confirmed cases, with its outbreak linked to the ongoing cluster of cases north of the border in Texas. [...]

2025-04-29

Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen

The rocket's first stage may have exploded moments after it separated from the upper stage. [...]

2025-04-29

Amazon's Kuiper Satellite Service Rocket Successfully Launches

Project Kuiper wants to challenge SpaceX's Starlink, but Elon Musk's company is far ahead for now. [...]