SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch...

At the end of June, the project visited Fir & Pond Woods, near Potters Bar, and recorded Euides basilinea, a planthopper associated with reeds, which had no previous records in Hertfordshire.At Aldbury Nowers, near Tring, the leafhopper Zygina hyperici...

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has vastly outlived its original two-year mission plan. As the successor to the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, it...

The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026, and left many more missing likely began with falling ice and rock crashing into the river below, but that wasn’t the...

Vaping company Juul Labs on Friday received federal permission to sell an updated version of its e-cigarette, which includes an optional age-verification system designed to prevent underage use.The decision from the Food and Drug Administration...

NASA named a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first prize winner for Phase 2 of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, which focused on developing solutions for reducing waste during missions to the Moon or deep space by recycling common materials, like fabrics, plastics, foam, and metals.  The Composites for Extraterrestrial Recycling By Engineering the Reuse and Upcycling of Zotek (CERBERUZ) team, comprised of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students...

The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ is one of the best telescopes for beginner-to-intermediate stargazers who want to view deep-sky objects and appreciate assistance in manually locating the targets.Right now, the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ is 17% off,...

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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.If, like me, you let some of your fitness goals fall by the wayside this summer, Labor Day is...

Some people seem to get eaten alive by mosquitoes each summer, while others sail through the season with nary a bite.Certain mosquito species are attracted to, or repelled by, different subsets of people depending on the components of their...