NASA Unveils New Details About the Future Moon Base and the Missions Laying the Groundwork to Build It — The first three missions are targeted to launch this year. They’ll involve lunar landers developed by several aerospace companies, including Blue Origin, and deliver scientifi
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In a Plea to Preserve Them, One Photographer Has Captured 1,200 American Movie Theaters and Counting — For more than 40 years, Benita VanWinkle has photographed vintage movie houses in all 50 states
Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits? — Turmeric is heralded for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, but columnist Alice Klein finds that the evidence for this is shaky. Taking high doses of its curcumin extract in supplement form can be risky
Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy? — We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are escalating, creating conflict between countries and stoking conspiracy theories. But do they work?
New Material Could Help NASA Melt Moon Rocks, Harness Lunar Resources — Experts at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently discovered and tested a new material that could help NASA harness resources during future Moon missions.
NPR's newsroom shrinks through buyouts and layoffs — At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to save money and reorganize the newsroom.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test — The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it
Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day — Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the events that formed them over just one Mercurian day
NASA’s New Shock Detectives Project Invites Volunteers to Help Study Solar Wind - NASA Science — NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has collected more than ten years of data from this zone – more than scientists can analyze alone. As Shock Detectives, you’ll help sort
Perseverance Stuns in New Selfie - NASA — NASA’s Perseverance rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de
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How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe — Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are still finding new ways to employ it. Astrophysicist Emma Chapman explores how much these invisible waves can reveal
Google expands personalized intelligence to Gemini app image creation — Google expands personalized intelligence to Gemini app image creation
Homepage • MBARI — MBARI is a nonprofit oceanographic research center dedicated to advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean.
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New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI — Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release information about AI-produced content, regulators have confirmed. The move follows a successful request by New Scient
Wind-assisted cargo ships could more than halve shipping emissions — If wind-assisted cargo ships chose routes based entirely on where the winds are better, their fuel use could be cut in half or even completely eliminated
NOAA's National Ocean Service — In the U.S., where over half of us live along the coast and more than 78 percent of our overseas trade by volume comes and goes along our marine highways, the health of our coasts is intricately connected to the health of our nation
Rise Goes to Washington - NASA — “Rise,” the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA
Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists — The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women – and some find irritating – is actually more common in men
Ditching cigarettes for vapes may curb the cancer benefits of quitting — A study of 4.5 million people suggests that ex-smokers who take up vaping are more at risk of dying from lung cancer than people who quit without the use of e-cigarettes
NASA to Provide Update on Moon Base Strategy, Missions - NASA — NASA will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 26, to share Moon Base plans and highlight progress toward a sustained presence on the lunar
Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for how long? — Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer
We may finally know why dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms — Five different groups of predatory dinosaurs independently evolved disproportionately small arms, and it seems they did so because their heads became so large and powerful
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