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The Trump-Musk Fight Could Have Huge Consequences for U...

A vitriolic war of words between President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk...

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggle...

The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intellig...

Resilience, a Private Japanese Spacecraft, Crash-Landed...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and a...

Forest Preservation, Tree Planting Could Actually Worse...

With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in...

Trump’s Cuts Threaten NASA Plans for Astronauts on Mars

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achievin...

What Is the Analemma?

A curious celestial phenomenon known as the analemma is a reflection of Earth’s ...

The National Weather Service Is Understaffed and Underf...

What happens when the U.S.’s most trusted source of extreme weather alerts can’t...

New NWS Hires Won’t Make Up for Trump Cuts, Meteorologi...

Nearly 600 employees left the National Weather Service or were fired in recent m...

This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wri...

How We Solve the Climate Crisis

Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence go...

Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Shape-Slicing Dil...

A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven

What Will Happen to Opioid and Drug Overdose Deaths aft...

Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—...

Nuclear Weapon Strike Decisions Could Come Down to Huma...

Surveys show that how nuclear strike options are presented strongly influences t...

How Velvet Worm Slime Hardens in Seconds to Trap Prey

The velvet worm’s extraordinary goo could inspire recyclable bioplastics

Proposed Federal Budget Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the Na...

Is NASA Ready for Death in Space?

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how...

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