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Summer is “Go” for launch, and NASA has a universe of ways to help you to jump in, explore, and create! Whether you prefer to spend this season fueling your creativity, going outdoors into nature, or daydreaming about your...

Pick an ailment — joint pain, brain fog, insomnia — and there’s probably a peptide therapy promising to treat it. Never mind that many of these amino acid–based products are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,...

A newly discovered organelle may hold the key to how much methane cattle burp out.The organelle doesn’t belong to cows. It’s part of fuzzy single-celled protozoa called ciliates. The microbes live in cattle’s rumens, the first stomach of cud-chewing...

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar systems....

In some of medicine’s toughest cases, the hardest part isn’t choosing the right diagnosis. It’s thinking of it at all. Artificial intelligence may now be better at that than doctors, a new study suggests.“We’re witnessing a really profound change...

Scientists and engineers around the world are working to improve quantum bits, or qubits, the minuscule building...

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology with an emphasis in biotechnology from the University of California, Davis, and later graduated from...

There’s no sign reading “home sweet home” in the hangar where the X‑59 now sits, but the sentiment is unmistakable among those tending to the quiet supersonic aircraft. Located at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, the X-59...

Under a microscope, a bouquet of lollipop-like structures, each smaller than a grain of sand, waves gently...

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