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Two Studies Have Grim Tidings for Antarctica
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History of Stars Captured in New Webb Telescope Images
New images capture the eccentric Cartwheel galaxy and the farthest star ever seen
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 4, 2022
Chinese Space Rocket Debris Crashes Back to Earth Over Ocean
It remains unclear what path the debris from the booster might take, US Space Command said on Twitter on Saturday, referring questions to the Chinese government
By Victoria Cavaliere / Bloomberg
July 30, 2022
South Korea and the U.S. both Target the Moon
South Korea aims to launch its first moon probe while the U.S. finds a cave that could be a home for astronauts
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 29, 2022
Russia May Not Quit the Space Station After All
The boss of the Russian space agency threatens to quit the space station in 2024—but Moscow backpedals
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 29, 2022
The Double Health Risk of Heat and Pollution
Research shows that the combined risk of death from extreme temperatures and air pollution is more than the sum of their individual effects
By Emily Barone
July 28, 2022
DeepMind Shares Protein Structure Solution
CEO Demis Hassabis described the disclosure as a "gift to humanity" that would turbocharge the pace of scientific research
By Billy Perrigo
July 28, 2022
How the Pandemic Will End, and More at the TIME100 Health Summit
How long the COVID-19 pandemic will last is one of the biggest questions facing the world at present—and one of the major issues addressed at the TIME100 Health Summit that took place on July 15....
By Olivia B. Waxman
July 27, 2022
James Lovelock, Scientific Mind Behind the Gaia Living Earth Theory, Has Died at 103
(LONDON, England) — James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday. Lovelock’s family said Wednesday...
By JILL LAWLESS/AP
July 27, 2022
Debris From a Chinese Space Rocket Is Crashing Toward Earth
Beijing is dismissing concern about the Long March 5B rocket debris set to make an uncontrolled reentry around July 31
By Bruce Einhorn and Shirley Zhao/Bloomberg
July 27, 2022
Russia to Drop Out of International Space Station After 2024
Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost.
By Vladimir Isachenkov/AP
July 26, 2022
The James Webb Telescope Has Already Made Its First Scientific Discovery
"We’re potentially looking at the most distant starlight ever seen"
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 22, 2022
NASA's Giant Moon Rocket Set to Fly Soon
The first step to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 22, 2022
The Next Hottest Alternative Milk Comes from Microbes
The dairy industry is a big polluter. A new type of milk offers a more climate-friendly option
By Aryn Baker
July 22, 2022
Monarch Butterflies Officially Listed as Endangered By Scientists
The iconic species flutters one step closer to extinction
By CHRISTINA LARSON/AP
July 21, 2022
Weather Forecasters Are Now Connecting Hot Days to Climate Change
Scientists have developed a new tool to make the connection clear
By Alejandro de la Garza
July 20, 2022
Why You Should Care—A Lot—About the Webb Telescope Images
The dazzling new images from deep space give us all a new perspective on our place in the cosmos
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 15, 2022
U.S. and Russia Will Ride Each Other's Rockets Again
NASA astronauts will ride Russian rockets and Russian cosmonauts head to the ISS with SpaceX this fall
By Marcia Dunn / AP
July 15, 2022
These 5 Photos From the James Webb Space Telescope Are Mind-Blowing. Here's What They Can Tell Us
The big reveal of pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope are not just dazzling; they also pack a lot of science.
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 13, 2022
Michael Pollan on the Psychedelic Renaissance and Netflix's New 'How to Change Your Mind' Documentary
A Q&A with TIME
By Tara Law
July 12, 2022
What These Dazzling James Webb Telescope Images Mean for Space
This glimpse into the history of the universe will usher in a "new phase of scientific discovery"
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 12, 2022
Russia Angers the World With Space Station War Propaganda
Waving the flag of stolen Ukrainian land
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 8, 2022
Meet the Siblings Making Hydropower That Actually Protects Rivers and Fish
“Every hydro project is also a water project, not just an energy project”
By Amy Gunia
June 29, 2022
The Billionaire Space Race Has Big Climate Costs
Rocket exhaust is no friend of the atmosphere
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 28, 2022
How Pittsburgh Is Leading the U.S. Back to the Moon
It’s not easy to get from North Lincoln Avenue to the Lake of Death. North Lincoln Avenue is in Pittsburgh; the Lake of Death is on the moon—meaning there’s a tidy 385,000 km (over 239,000...
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 23, 2022
NASA Insists All Is Well as the Webb Telescope's Mirror Gets Dinged
The $10 billion telescope meets a micrometeoroid
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 17, 2022
How Climate Change Affects Kids' Health
A review article shows how dangerous climate-related threats are to children’s well-being
By Tara Law
June 17, 2022
8-Month-Old Babies Recognize Wrongdoers and Seek to Punish Them
The new study suggests morality is innate
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 16, 2022
China Says It May Have Detected Signals From Aliens
China said its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of alien civilizations, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily
By Bloomberg
June 15, 2022
A Strawberry Moon Is Coming. Why the Rare Astronomical Event Is So Exciting
A close-up full moon is a sky show like no other
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 14, 2022
NASA Launches Real Study Into UFOs
NASA has spent more than 60 years flying UFOs. Every spacecraft that ever visited the moon, landed on Mars, buzzed by Jupiter, orbited Saturn, or reconnoitered Pluto would be a decidedly unidentified flying object to...
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 10, 2022
New Lunar Spacesuits to Set NASA Back $3.5 Billion
Here's what well-dressed lunar explorers will soon be wearing
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 3, 2022
Congress is Finally Taking UFOs Seriously, 50 Years After Its Last Hearing on the Mysterious Subject
Whether you call them UFOs or UAPs, they're still a mystery
By Jeffrey Kluger
May 17, 2022
Astronomers Capture First Image of Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
A cosmic beast sits still for a picture
By Jeffrey Kluger
May 12, 2022
Scientists Grow Plants in Soil from the Moon. Lunar Farming Could Be Next.
A breakthrough experiment could open the way to lunar farming
By Jeffrey Kluger
May 12, 2022
More Cosmic Saber-Rattling From Russia's Space Boss
Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, says his country will dissolve its partnership in space with the U.S. over Western sanctions
By Jeffrey Kluger
May 6, 2022
NASA's Far-Flung Space Fleet Is Getting a Few Extra Years to Explore the Cosmos
Eight lucky spacecraft will get to press on
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 29, 2022
Carlo Rovelli Would Like to Explain the Universe
It’s a very good thing Carlo Rovelli did not get eaten by a bear in 1976—though even he admits it would have been his own fault. Camping alone in western Canada, he decided to save...
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 28, 2022
The World’s Steel Comes at a Steep Climate Cost. A Swedish Company is Trying to Change That.
“If we have the chance to really solve the root cause of the real problem, why not do that?”
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 28, 2022
The New Science of Forgetting
A baby zebrafish is just half the size of a pea. A recent look inside its transparent brain, however, offers clues to the far bigger mystery of how we remember—and how we forget. In an...
By Corinne Purtill
April 28, 2022
The Hunt for Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa Just Got a Little Easier
Thanks to a clue from Greenland, of all places
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 21, 2022
Psilocybin Could be a Therapeutic Breakthrough For Addiction
To the uninitiated, psilocybin—the substance that gives ‘magic mushrooms’ their psychedelic qualities—could be dismissed as a recreational drug. Like many other psychedelics, it is banned by the U.S. government as a Schedule 1 substance, meaning...
By Tara Law
April 18, 2022
NASA's Mega Moon Rocket Is Flunking Its Dress Rehearsal
Built for the moon, but stuck on the ground
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 15, 2022
The First Private Crew Blasts Off for the Space Station
10 days in space—at $55 million per seat
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 8, 2022
We Have Enough Climate Tech. What We Need is Political Will
As IPCC climate scientists make clear, politicians must help scale up existing technologies to avert catastrophic climate change
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 7, 2022
Climeworks Raises $650 Million to Scale Up Carbon Capture Technology
Most scenarios that keep global warming within 1.5°C will require removing some carbon that’s already been dumped into the atmosphere
By AKSHAT RATHI / BLOOMBERG
April 5, 2022
Vegan Documentarian Tells the Inside Story of Lab-Grown Meat
Liz Marshall’s Meat the Future charts the birth of a new technological innovation that grows meat from stem cells instead of animals
By Aryn Baker
April 5, 2022
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