Science News
- SpaceX will try to catch both Starship stages with its launch tower for the first time on Flight 15 in November
- Researchers aim to develop medicines that deliver some benefits of exercise without a workout
- MIT Technology Review examines solid-state batteries as a successor to lithium-ion
- Researchers explore ways to clean up PFAS, the forever chemicals linked to fertility and developmental problems
- Scientists work to decode how animals communicate, which could reveal the inner lives of other species
- NASA plans Space Reactor-1 Freedom, a nuclear-powered spacecraft to fly an uncrewed Mars mission by 2028
- Guinea-Bissau police raid the office of RFK Jr. allies over a planned "unethical" hepatitis B vaccine trial on babies
- SpaceX plans to attempt catching Starship and its booster next month, aiming to fully recover the orbital launch system
- New study suggests a ketogenic diet may increase the risk of cancer in the small intestine
- A robotic therapy approach combines AI with human physical therapists to help stroke patients recover
- MIT and EPFL engineers build a robotic puffin that swims underwater and leaps back into the air
- Tomás Villalón Jr. ’14 is working on a cleaner path to rare earth metals, motivated by pollution he saw in Monterrey
- A look at astronomer Megan Donahue ’85, from a Nebraska farm to studying galaxy clusters
- MIT engineers develop a thermoplastic yarn that can be melted down and respun to cut textile waste
- Astrolab's FLIP lunar rover will carry a computer to run the first LLMs on the Moon, as early as November 2026
- A guide to the medium-lift rocket race in the United States and who is competing in it
- A quantum error correction demo goes beyond breakeven, with errors dropping sharply as qubit arrays grow
- Electric Plant built an AI model that translates the electrical signals plants send through their stems
- Researchers drill into thawing permafrost in Alaska's Denali National Park to study a swiftly melting climate disaster
- How to see the Orionid meteor shower, made of Halley's Comet fragments known for being especially bright and fast
- Japan launches the Martian Moons eXploration mission to return the first Phobos samples to Earth, with arrival scheduled for August 2027
- Russian spacecraft Kosmos 2612 closes to extreme proximity with ICEYE-X36, a satellite used by Ukraine
- Making fewer batteries is one way to reduce the emissions that battery production creates
- Colossal Biosciences acquires a rare moa egg and will return it to New Zealand
- Debris found in a Minnesota cornfield appears to come from a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket that deorbited over the state
- Researchers work to combat Arctic wildfires that threaten the frozen carbon stored in northern permafrost
- Sceye's stratospheric airship flies from the US to Japan in a test of sky-based cell tower connectivity
- An MIT Technology Review explainer examines how far computing can be pushed, starting from Richard Feynman's 1959 talk at Caltech