ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX Launch Targets Safe Reentry of Starship Megarocket—If It Doesn’t Explode First For the upcoming fourth mission, SpaceX aims to demonstrate key capabilities of the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, including successful reentry. By George Dvorsky Published May 31, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Venus’ Only Active Probe Mysteriously Falls Silent The Japanese mission has been orbiting the planet for nearly a decade to study its weather patterns. By Passant Rabie Published May 31, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Myth That Casual Fentanyl Contact Is Deadly Refuses to Die Despite years of some law enforcement agencies saying so, there is no strong evidence that simply touching or being near fentanyl can be deadly. By Ed Cara Published May 31, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth How to Look Up the Money Your Doctor Is Getting From Big Pharma A new study found 93% of doctors who endorsed medical products on X were getting paid. By Matt Novak Published May 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Webb Spots Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen—and It’s Weirdly Bright The freshly spotted galaxy offers a rare glimpse of our universe when it was young, less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. By Passant Rabie Published May 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth The Medieval Disease That Killed Thousands of People and Then Vanished From History Known for killing people within a day of symptoms starting, the true origins of the "sweats" that plagued the 1500s remain unknown to this day. By Ed Cara Published May 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight What to Know About World’s First Wooden Satellite, Set to Launch This Year Japan's wooden satellite could solve the space trash problem by burning up completely on re-entry, leaving no debris and reducing environmental impacts. By Passant Rabie Published May 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Supplies of Wegovy and Other Weight Loss Drugs Can Now Be Tracked by Patients Healthcare company Ro just launched a GLP-1 supply tracker. Eli Lilly is working on one, too Bruce Gil, Quartz Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Spock’s Home Planet Never Really Existed An alien world orbiting a star made famous by Star Trek was nothing but a celestial illusion. By Passant Rabie Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Really Are Alone in the Galaxy An adjustment to the famous Drake Equation could radically refine estimates of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. By George Dvorsky Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology Overlooked Hieroglyphics Lead to Thrilling Pharaoh Sarcophagus Discovery The famous pharaoh Ramesses II was once entombed in the sarcophagus, which has now been identified by its hieroglyphics. By Isaac Schultz Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Boeing’s Starliner Is Leaking Gas but Will Still Launch With NASA Astronauts The company has chosen not to repair a small helium leak in the spacecraft's service module ahead of the scheduled launch of its first crew to orbit. By Passant Rabie Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnimals Canada’s Wild ‘Super Pigs’ Are About to Invade America New research finds that Canada's heftier and cold-resistant wild pigs have a "high potential" to move into the northern prairies of Canada and the U.S. By Ed Cara Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology Ancient Egyptians Tried to Surgically Treat Cancer, Study Finds Evidence from a 4,000-year-old skull suggests ancient Egyptian doctors were handy enough to try surgically removing tumors from their patients. By Ed Cara Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Chinese Spaceplane Releases Mysterious Object in Orbit Months After Launch There's been very little information shared about the orbital vehicle, which launched in December 2023 for its third secretive mission. By Passant Rabie Published May 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology Ancient Gladiator Sketches Likely Drawn by a Child Discovered in Pompeii Beautiful frescoes, rudimentary doodles, and a pair of skeletons are the latest discoveries out of Pompeii's ongoing excavations. By Isaac Schultz Published May 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Family Eats Bear, Ends Up With Parasitic Worms In a report this month, CDC scientists detail how the family caught a rare outbreak of bear-related trichinellosis that sent several to the hospital. By Ed Cara Published May 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth An Experimental mRNA Vaccine Targets H5N1 Bird Flu The news comes as US officials are considering requiring vaccines for farm workers vulnerable to infection Bruce Gil, Quartz Published May 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Solar Storm Threat Is Back as Giant Sunspot Cluster Reappears Earth may experience another solar storm—and more auroras—in early June as the hyperactive sunspot cluster rotates back into view. By Passant Rabie Updated May 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System From centaurs to icy moons, our host star is orbited by an array of objects with bizarre features. By Passant Rabie Published May 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
