Science

The Story SpaceX launched its largest Starship yet on a test flight Friday, carrying 20 mock Starlink satellites. The spacecraft reached its Indian Ocean destination despite...

The Story The Guardian published a puzzle asking readers to design two escape passages for snakes of equal width but different lengths, and later provided the...

The Story Craig Venter, the geneticist who led Celera Genomics in privately sequencing the human genome and announced a lower-than-expected human gene count, has died at...

The Story NASA’s Psyche spacecraft passed within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of Mars on May 15, capturing detailed images of the double-ring Huygens crater during a...

The Story Researchers have provided evidence that a pianist’s touch can alter the tone color of a piano note, settling a century-old debate. Using a high-speed...

The Story Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has been renamed to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) following more than a decade of global consultation. The condition, which...

The Story An opinion piece published by a UCLA doctor reports that safety studies of Covid-19 and shingles vaccines, completed by Food and Drug Administration scientists...

The Story A wildfire that consumed roughly a third of Santa Rosa Island, part of Channel Islands National Park, has been captured in NASA satellite images....

The Story New research reinterprets the Einstein-Rosen “bridge” as a connection between two opposite arrows of time rather than a traversable wormhole. The study, based on...

The Story The Guardian published solutions to two word puzzles involving homonyms and homographs. The first asked for five letters whose homonyms do not contain the...