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Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant career began at the ‘House of Magic’

Where did Luna 9 land on the moon?

Menstrual blood can be used to detect HPV, hinting at broader uses

‘X-ray dot’ discovery fuels JWST ‘black hole star’ debate

These two habits are linked to more than a third of all cancer cases

The AI data center boom could cause a Nintendo Switch 2 memory shortage

NASA’s next space suit for Artemis has out-of-this-world mobility

Women and men are almost equally as likely to be diagnosed as autistic by adulthood, new study finds

Lung cancer hijacks the brain to trick the immune system

Physicists trace particles back to the quantum vacuum

Mesmerizing 'cloud streets' emerge from Florida's frigid air

A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it

NASA document reveals new Artemis II moon mission target launch dates for March

‘Extraordinary’ brain network discovery changes our understanding of Parkinson’s disease

Astronomers find a ‘baby cluster’ of galaxies that could break cosmic models

How supercontinent breakups leave geological orphans behind

Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics—even snowmaking won’t save it

‘Daily misery’—why some people can’t burp, and how Botox comes to the rescue

NASA’s Artemis II moon mission engulfed by debate over its controversial heat shield

Elon Musk fuses SpaceX with xAI

NASA delays Artemis II moon mission to March after critical test raises issues

Unsinkable metal discovery could build safer ships and harvest wave energy

States and medical societies are stepping up to fill the CDC’s data void

NASA’s Artemis II launch rehearsal hits a snag

A century of hair clippings show lead exposure rates have plummeted

New chicken-sized dinosaur baffles paleontologists

The sun just unleashed its most powerful solar flare in years

Jupiter isn’t as huge as we thought it was

Astronomers triumph over telescope-threatening energy project in Chile

SpaceX plans to launch one million satellites to power orbital AI data center

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

Celebrate Groundhog Day with 6 bizarre groundhog facts

Decoding DNA’s ‘dark matter’ with AI, keeping a man alive without lungs, and cracking a botanical mystery

U.S. quietly declassifies cold war–era ‘JUMPSEAT’ surveillance satellites

Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough

How Claude Code is bringing vibe coding to everyone

NASA stresses ISS crew safety as it gears up for next astronaut launch

3,000-light-year-long jet offers new clues to first black hole ever imaged

OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that runs your computer

Another Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find out

For predatory dinosaurs, the Late Jurassic was an all-you-can-eat sauropod buffet

A bomb cyclone and extreme cold will freeze the eastern U.S.—again

Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator

Why the Hubble Space Telescope still matters

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s legacy comes to light

Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly mulling a merger with xAI

‘Artificial lungs’ keep patient alive for two days

How long you live may depend much more on your genes than scientists thought

U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high

The chemical genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett