NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, bu [...]

White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act

"We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well." [...]

RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals "corrupt." [...]

Lionel Messi’s Final World Cup—and the Death of Early Retirement

Argentina’s Lionel Messi was supposed to be done years ago. Now, sports science is helping soccer’s biggest stars rewrite the rules of aging. [...]

Open source, open science, and cryptography

Looking at the open-source approach, discussing pros & cons and initiatives in the space. [...]

A rare bird appeared in Brazil. AI had put it there.

A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Br [...]

The Morning After: NASA’s Artemis II is on a voyage around the Moon

NASA’s Artemis II successfully launched on April 1, with its crew on a 10-day mission to circle the Moon. It’s the first crewed Artemis flight and a major step toward humanity returning to our lit [...]

2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA feels like a real car, not a science experiment

Mercedes' new 800 V electric powertrain is ready for the public, and we've driven it. [...]

Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model

In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week [...]