SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

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...

It was roughly a year after the earliest cases of covid-19 before the first vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus...

Mitali Chowdhury ’24 and Christina Kim ’24 have been selected as 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholars. The highly...

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Titan’s plains may be covered in up to a metre of fluffy, organic “snow”. About 65 per cent of...

It’s an essential insight about our world: Innovation drives economic growth. For the U.S. to thrive, it...

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...

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,...

Many consumers – and state policymakers and even utility companies – are worried about the possibility of large numbers of data centers raising electricity demand and power prices.Those are real concerns, but our engineering research...

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...