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Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated May 22, 2026 to include a retirement. NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes position the agency to better deliver on...

Houses with screens, rainwater-collection systems and cement floors could be a powerful tool in the fight against childhood diseases in Africa.Children living in these specially designed houses in Tanzania had fewer cases of malaria, diarrhea and respiratory diseases than...

Available for 35 daysWith 2023’s El Niño – a recurring pattern of extreme weather across the pacific basin - still leaving a bad taste in people's mouth, 2026 sees an El Niño stirring in the Pacific Ocean and...

Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza has resisted earthquake damage for nearly 5,000 years, and scientists finally know why.The pyramid tends to vibrate at a different frequency compared with the surrounding soil, which prevents excessive shaking during an earthquake. Combined...

The South Dakota State University team took first place at NASA’s fifth annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged student teams to address a critical element of U.S. aviation: aircraft maintenance. This year’s competition, RepAir: Advancing Aircraft Maintenance, asked...

Scientist Saul Justine Newman debunks high-profile longevity research and antiaging “medicine” in a new book. Source link

At 19, Tucker Francis was living his dream.About a decade earlier, he had sailed around the northwest Atlantic with his family, and his passion for the ocean and adventure blossomed. He loved snorkeling and recreational freediving, the loose term...

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics of its...

Editor's Note: Today's story is the answer to the May Puzzler.About 15,000 years ago, southeastern Manitoba sat beneath tens of meters of frigid water. Lake Agassiz—which once encompassed present-day Lake Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg, and Lake of the Woods—covered an...

In shallow seas near Australia, a familiar, trunked face emerges from billowing tufts of red algae. The fish it belongs to, though, is new to science.The woolly, reddish fish is a variety of ghost pipefish, camouflaged fishes related to...