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With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity for futuristic space antennas. Called JPL Additive Compliant Canister (JACC),...

When our species and Neanderthals interbred, it may have been mostly female Homo sapiens and male Neanderthals that mated....

By Chris Burns, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rVQHFPZfJkFor over 50 years, the Landsat program has provided the longest continuous satellite record of Earth's land surface from space. Landsat 9, launched in 2021, is the latest mission in this remarkable legacy...

A proposed new law banning children in the UK from using social media and virtual private networks (VPNs) would...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer.An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for feeding on early humans between 2.9 and 1.6 million...

Finding out what gut microbes a person carries may not be as easy as many companies advertise.Seven direct-to-consumer microbiome testing companies each got three identical fecal samples but returned different results about which gut microbes were present, researchers report...

On Thursday, NASA announced Joel Montalbano will serve as the acting associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, and Dana Hutcherson will serve as the acting program manager of the Commercial Crew Program.  SOMD’s programs and activities...

In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen.Unlike hydrogen produced from industrial processes, natural hydrogen forms through geological reactions that occur normally within...

Have you committed to a new habit—exercising, let’s say—but keep falling off the wagon? Do you give up when the going gets tough?...