ScienceSpace Still Have Your Eclipse Glasses? Use Them to Look at This Massive Sunspot This historically large sunspot, now 15 times wider than Earth, rivals the one linked to the colossal solar storm of 1859. By Passant Rabie Updated May 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Experimental Weight Loss Procedure ‘Burns’ Stomach Lining to Curb Food Cravings In a new small trial of an experimental procedure, patients lost about 8% of their baseline weight and experienced a significant drop in their hunger. By Ed Cara Updated May 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Undiagnosed Nerve Disorders May Be Widespread Among Americans, Doctors Warn Researchers have found evidence that a substantial majority of older adults in Flint, Michigan are living with painful nerve damage along their legs. By Ed Cara Published May 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months The space agency is investing in the development of a propulsion system that uses nuclear power to create plasma bursts. By Passant Rabie Published May 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace A Planet Just 41 Light-Years From Earth Has an Atmosphere and Is Covered in a Magma Ocean The Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a nearby rocky planet with a volatile atmosphere. By Isaac Schultz Published May 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Psychedelic Toad Venom Shows Promise for New Depression Treatment Scientists have mapped the structure of a psychedelic drug derived from the Colorado River toad, which seems to have antidepressant effects. By Ed Cara Published May 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight How Did Water Escape From Venus? A New Study May Have Solved the Mystery Venus likely started off with the same amount of water as Earth, but today the hellish world has 100,000 times less water than its sister planet. By Passant Rabie Published May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Starliner Joins the Ranks: The Elite Spacecraft That Have Carried NASA Astronauts to Space Boeing's Starliner is the latest addition to the surprisingly short list of passenger spacecraft in NASA's history. By Passant Rabie Updated May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth You’re Practically Guaranteed to Get Alzheimer’s If You Have This Genetic Variant Recent research indicates that people with two copies of the APOE4 gene are almost certain to exhibit signs of the neurological disease by their mid-60s. By Ed Cara Published May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnimals Sperm Whale Communication Is Remarkably Similar to Human Language, Research Suggests The latest study is a big step forward in decoding whale linguistics—and machine learning is making it possible. By Isaac Schultz Published May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Trippy NASA Visualization Takes You Inside a Black Hole The animation, which simulates the view of someone falling into a black hole, demonstrates how the bizarre objects warp light and space as you approach them. By Isaac Schultz Published May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Director Is Glad Elon Musk Isn’t Running SpaceX SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell calls the shots, and does it well enough for NASA's approval Logan Carter, Jalopnik Published May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Boeing’s First Crewed Starliner Launch Delayed Over Valve Issue This is the latest in a series of delays that have marred the maiden test flight of a crewed Starliner spacecraft. By Passant Rabie Updated May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics The Titanic Tourist Sub Was Always Going to Kill Its Passengers As it turns out, if you ignore physics, your submersible won't be very good. Collin Woodard, Jalopnik Published May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Restrictive Abortion Laws Boost Murder Rates Among Girls and Women, Research Reveals Researchers found that so-called TRAP laws were associated with an increased rate of murders among young girls and women committed by their intimate partners. By Ed Cara Published May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Do Women Really Feel Colder Than Men? A research team has tackled an old stereotype that claims women are more sensitive to cold than men. By Ed Cara Published May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX Unveils New Spacesuits for Historic Private Astronaut Spacewalk The new suits will be worn during the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, in which the Crew Dragon spacecraft will orbit Earth for five days. By Passant Rabie Updated May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics New Fusion Record Achieved in Tungsten-Encased Reactor A fusion device ensconced in highly durable tungsten sustained a more energetic, denser plasma than previously recorded. By Isaac Schultz Published May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
Science Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: I Bet You Can’t Tell Time on This Warped Clock Think you’re adept at telling time? Prove it by solving this week’s puzzle about a distorted analog clock. By Jack Murtagh Published May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Watch Live: Boeing’s Nail-Biting First Crewed Launch Attempt to the ISS Starliner's first crewed test flight is set for launch on Monday following years of delays and glitches. Given it's Boeing, we're nervous as hell. By Passant Rabie Updated May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
