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NASA's Bet on SpaceX’s Starship May Give Moon Race to China
Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat Ch…
Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat Ch…
Forget fake profile pics on dating apps—AI is now doing the talking, and we can’t tell the diff…
Uncovering the CIA’s Kryptos puzzle took three parts math and one part sleuthing from CurioSci…
A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunt…
At an effective temperature of 13 million kelvins, the jiggling glass sphere could help scienti…
Comparing animals’ susceptibility to optical illusions can show how perception evolved. from …
Voracious supermassive black holes light up the cores of “active” galaxies across the universe.…
As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Look to ancien…
After decades of speculation, two writers uncovered the answer to the Kryptos code’s final ciph…
In certain circumstances, losses create a sure path to victory, an idea with implications for b…
Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 bi…
New video apps like Sora could turn faces into moneymaking assets and hint at a future where ev…
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share the Nobel economics prize for work that unde…
What happens when your body suddenly stops making the one hormone that keeps your blood sugar i…
Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune…
A decades-old technique from network science saw something in the papal conclave that AI missed…
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated o…
Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tum…
Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but…
The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study …
Some researchers think artificial intelligence could produce Nobel-worthy research, but others …
Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘supe…
A personal reflection recalls Jane Goodall’s quiet pragmatism, her deep bond with Gombe’s chimp…
President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass federal lay-offs as the U.S. gover…
The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on…
After years of heartbreak, researchers have found an experimental treatment that can slow the p…
Grape plant bacteria might help mitigate smoke taint in wine by breaking down chemicals that ev…