Science & Discovery

Science & Discovery

SpaceX’s Starship just turned 10 years old. When will it go to Mars?

Starship just reached orbit for the first time, carrying satellites for SpaceX's Starlink…

October 14, 20266 min read

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One of America’s biggest meteor craters is 100 million years younger than we thought — and coincided with a global extinction event

One of America's largest meteor craters is around 100 million years younger than…

October 14, 20265 min read

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To turn invisible, we need to tweak the path light travels

It’s pretty hard to fight an opponent you can’t see. That’s what makes…

October 14, 202618 min read

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Lessons from translocating a tiger for population recovery [Commentary]

A three-year-old tigress has been translocated from Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve to Buxa…

October 13, 20269 min read

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Amazon wildfires hide another threat to the rainforest

Tropical rainforests are among the world’s richest ecosystems and play a vital role…

October 13, 20266 min read

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Hubble Spots a Suspected Second-Generation Planet

When stars reach the end of their life cycles, they undergo gravitational collapse…

October 13, 20264 min read

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‘Autonomy always begins with something a human hands it’: Who’s responsible when an AI agent goes rogue?

An OpenAI agent was supposed to be researching public healthcare spending, but it…

October 12, 20268 min read

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Scarred blood vessels may be one clue to APOE4’s Alzheimer’s risk

The gene APOE4 is the strongest common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease.…

October 12, 202618 min read

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A changing climate is reshaping India’s infectious disease risks

Heatwaves, floods, erratic rainfall and droughts are altering the conditions that drive infectious…

October 12, 20269 min read

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Check out the Double Cluster in Perseus on October evenings

Here’s an easy way to use the prominent M or W shape of…

October 11, 20265 min read

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