Science
Belts of Green in the Washington Suburbs – NASA Science
Beyond the border of Washington, D.C., numerous suburbs spread across Virginia and Maryland. Many are accessible from the Capital Beltway (I-495), the highway that encircles Washington. An astronaut on the International Space Station captured this photo of the beltway’s...
Space
Artemis II Mission Milestones: An Image and Video Recap – NASA
On April 1, 2026, Artemis II launched on a nearly 10-day voyage around the Moon, marking the first crewed flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, splashed down...
Life
If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
It was roughly a year after the earliest cases of covid-19 before the first vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus...
Life
Two MIT alumnae named 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholars
Mitali Chowdhury ’24 and Christina Kim ’24 have been selected as 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholars. The highly...
Life
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Science
How to expand the US economy
It’s an essential insight about our world: Innovation drives economic growth. For the U.S. to thrive, it...
Environment
Research at Chernobyl and Fukushima shows how radioactive materials move in the environment
When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster than people expect.The Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the...
Environment
Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback
Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem in decline going back to 2011, when harmful algal blooms led to a severe decline in seagrass, the foundational component of shallow coastal ecosystems.Seagrass meadows stabilize sediments,...
Space
China Unveils a Massive 5-Meter Composite Module for its Next-Generation Reusable Rocket
So far, America has remained ahead in the new space race. But its biggest rival is making continual steps to catch up. China announced another step in that direction with the...
Environment
Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prologue, many of those...