2025-08-28

Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

The species's boundaries in North America seem to have been fairly fluid. [...]

2025-08-27

SpaceX's Starship deploys its payload for the first time

SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its [...]

2025-08-27

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 data to help improve infrastructure and disaster responses. [...]

2025-08-27

Lawmaker: Trump’s Golden Dome will end the madness, and that’s not a good thing

"I don't want to gamble on which major city or two we lose in a scenario like that." [...]

2025-08-27

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. [...]

2025-08-27

The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as we thought

Collapsing gas clouds in the early universe may have formed lower-mass stars as well. [...]

2025-08-27

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. [...]

2025-08-27

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky" [...]

2025-08-26

US‘s spike in electricity use is slowing down a bit

Half of a year of data shows that the solar boom is not slowing down. [...]