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Women’s History Month: Meet Denise Ryan – NASA

In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Denise Ryan, flight management specialist and member of the Women’s Networking Group (WNG) at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, to learn more about her role...

Dogs know words for their favorite toys

Dogs may know more than they let on. Pet dogs’ brains displayed neural signs of surprise when their owners showed them an unexpected toy. The findings, published March 22 in Current Biology, suggest that dogs create mental concepts of...

45 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Columbia Arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – NASA

On March 24, 1979, space shuttle Columbia arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the very first time. Following Presidential direction to build the space shuttle in 1972, Congress quickly approved and funded the program later that year....

The Psychedelic Evangelist

Before he died last year, Roland Griffiths was arguably the world’s most famous psychedelics researcher. Since 2006, his work has suggested that psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, can induce mystical experiences, and that those experiences, in turn, can help...

Timbre can affect what harmony is music to our ears

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought.Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by certain intervals (SN: 5/9/23). Namely, intervals where the notes’ frequencies have...

DPH warns public not to drink bottled water from Mass. company due to PFAS contamination

The Department of Public Health is warning the public not to drink bottled water from a Massachusetts company due to PFAS contamination.In a public health advisory issued Wednesday, officials advised consumers not to purchase or consume bottled water or...

Eclipses Injured Their Eyes, and the World Never Looked the Same

A young woman visited New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Hospital shortly after the eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017. She told Dr. Avnish Deobhakta, an ophthalmologist, that she had a black area in her vision, and...

Not all cultures value happiness over other aspects of well-being

For the seventh year running, the Finns have taken the top spot as the world’s happiest people. That’s according to the 2024 World Happiness Report, released March 20. Per usual, the remaining Nordic countries — Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and...

Creative collisions: Crossing the art-science divide

MIT has a rich history of productive collaboration between the arts and the sciences, anchored by the...

Pushing material boundaries for better electronics

Undergrads, take note: The lessons you learn in those intro classes could be the key to making...
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Russia veto brings end to U.N. panel monitoring North Korea sanctions

SEOUL — A veto by Russia on Thursday ended the United Nations’ monitoring of sanctions against North Korea over...
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