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Friction: A biographyJennifer R. Vail, Harvard University Press IN 2009, World Aquatics banned a specific type of swimsuit from all...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the first astronauts to Mars. Throughout Artemis II, astronaut voice, images, video, and vital mission data must traverse thousands of...

Agency 28/01/2026 187 views 6 likesTwo days of intense discussions and exchanges came to an end at the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels on Wednesday.ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher addressed the conference in a second keynote focusing on the evolution of...

About 1 in 10 people carry genetic variants that make them particularly vulnerable to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a...

A new deep-learning AI model may help scientists better decipher the plot of the genetic instruction book and learn how typos alter the story.AlphaGenome, created by Google DeepMind, is the latest in an ever-improving line of AI models built...

When new dietary guidelines for Americans came out in early January, I couldn’t help but notice “healthy fats” at the top of the inverted food pyramid.Like the food pyramid itself, the new guidelines have upended previous nutrition advice, which...

No matter where you live in the United States, you have likely seen headlines about PFAS being detected in everything from drinking water to fish to milk to human bodies.PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,...

Editor's note: This story contains discussion of astronaut fatalities and dangerous moments in human spaceflight.It was 40 years ago today (Jan. 28) that the space shuttle Challenger blasted off on its 10th mission to space. Sadly, the vehicle never...

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