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Each year, more than 1,500 researchers rely on over 200 tools and instruments at MIT.nano to pursue...

The Republic of Malta became the 65th signatory to the Artemis Accords on Monday during a ceremony in the town of Kalkara with NASA and U.S. Department of State officials present. “Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome the Republic...

A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike.Just 300 miles or so across, this mini...

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,...

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...

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...

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...