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Geoff Brumfiel, NPR Standing before a friendly crowd in March, Elon Musk laid out his plan for the future of his companies, and it was literally out of this world. Musk announced that...

Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The Artemis II...

Joe Schwarcz, McGill OSS My first encounter with the importance of oil was in 1962. I had just watched an episode of the witty sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies that began with a catchy theme...

Michelle Starr, SciAl The constant, omnidirectional hail of cosmic rays that stream through the Solar System from the galaxy beyond may not be as uniform as we thought. According to...

Emma Bryce, Anthropocene By lifting a gene from wild rice and breeding it into domestic crops, researchers have created a perennial crop that can live for two years or more. That could lead...

Charlie Wood, Quanta Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor (opens a new tab) took a niche physics project...

Steven Novella, Neurologica I have a love-hate relationship with TikTok, as I do social media in general. It is a great communication tool and allows scientists and science communicators to...

Robert P. Crease, Phys World Let us mourn the demise of the American penny. With each of the one-cent coins costing about three cents to make, it was "wasteful" to keep producing them,

Laura Baisas, Popular Science Eggs are pretty incredible. They must be sturdy enough to keep the precious cargo inside safe, yet soft enough for a baby

The Conversation Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth - from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across...

Ami Schattner, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society When Clara (alias) first came in, I admired her meticulous appearance and the special care she evidently took to look elegant and...

David A. Barzilai, Aging Mikhail Blagosklonny was right to say out loud: the goal of geroscience is life extension. Not "vitality" or a polite euphemism for better late-life care, but life...

Sam Scott, Stanford Magazine Dull, dirty, and dangerous. For decades, the "Three D's" were viewed as the ideal types of jobs for robots. A fourth D—domestic—was not so...

Deardorff & Kotwal, American Geriatric Society Community-dwelling persons with dementia experience a high prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms (e.g., depression, apathy), clinical...

Eric Berger, Ars Technica The first time NASA launched humans toward the Moon, in December 1968, the United States was a deeply fractured nation. The historic flight of three people...

Hannah Devlin, The Guardian A blinking fault light on Nasa's Orion spacecraft signalled an unwelcome setback at the start of the historic Artemis II mission: the toilet was out of...

Ellyn Lapointe, Gmodo I'm still reeling from the launch of NASA's Artemis 2 mission yesterday. As someone who wasn't around for the Apollo era, seeing astronauts embark on this...

Nicola Davis, The Guardian Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses manage it at arm's length. Male octopuses use a specialised arm called...

Sam Jarman, Phys.org For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ytterbium to create a new type of atomic clock...

Ed Cara, Gizmodo A woman's skin care treatment inadvertently turned into its own nightmare. A recent case report describes how she developed a rare reaction to an antibiotic that left her...