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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXTZ5jpSmkWhat is a black hole?Well, the name is actually a little misleading because black holes aren’t actually holes. They’re regions in space that have a gravitational pull that is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. Scientists...

If you’ve ever really looked at how flamingos eat, you know how captivatingly peculiar it is. They bob their inverted heads in the water and do a kind of waddle cha-cha as they inch their way across shallow water,...

A common chemical in household plastics has been linked with heart disease deaths.In 2018, about 13.5 percent of the more than 2.6 million deaths from cardiovascular disease among people ages 55 to 64 globally could have been related to...

One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the...

Neandertals formed sophisticated hunting parties that drove wild horses into fatal traps around 200,000 years ago.At Germany’s Schöningen site, wooden spears, double-pointed sticks, stone artifacts and butchered remains of more than 50 horses of various ages are some 100,000...

Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these different calls like linguistic Legos to relay complex meanings when communicating, researchers report May 9 in Science Advances.Chimps can combine and flexibly...

If you are considering testing in one of our facilities or would like further information about a specific facility or capability, please let us know.NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland provides ground test facilities to industry, government, and academia...

Georgina RannardClimate and science reporterKate Stephens and Tony JolliffeBBC climate and science teamTony Jolliffe/BBC NewsThe team has a year to finish their research. By the end, their search for answers will probably end up destroying the samples.But China has...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes of Health were advised to scrub their grants of any reference to mRNA. Around the country,...

NASA has chosen three winners out of nine finalists in the fourth annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students about the enabling power of radioisotopes for space exploration. Carl Sandifer II Program Manager, NASA's...