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China to debut new Long March rockets in 2024
China will debut several new Long March rockets this year to boost its options for space launches.
UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear...
Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, th...
Perseverance rover spots Ingenuity helicopter's sn...
Ingenuity's broken helicopter blade has been spotted on Mars. The little chopper made a hard landing...
The best new science fiction books of March 2024
With a new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mars-set romance from Natasha Pulley and a high-concept thriller from...
Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon ...
When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallow waters to long-ter...
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine...
23andMe's DNA test was once named "invention of the year", but now the company is in dire financial ...
Goodnight, Odysseus. Intuitive Machines' private m...
Intuitive Machines has shut down its robotic Odysseus lander, which last week became the first-ever ...
1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity
Between 1990 and 2022, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and quadrupled among children an...
Oukitel BP2000 power station review
This newly released huge 640,000 mAh capacity power station is ideal for backup power at home and ca...
China names the spacecraft that will put its astro...
China's human spaceflight agency has given names to spacecraft being developed to put astronauts on ...
SpaceX Starship docking system readies for moon mi...
Ahead of the Artemis 3 lunar landing mission, hardware from SpaceX's Starship was used to simulate d...
Richard Truly, space shuttle astronaut and NASA ad...
Richard "Dick" Truly, who was one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later led ...
James Webb Space Telescope reveals how stellar bla...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered how massive stars sculpt planetary...
Everything we know about Dune: Awakening
Experience Arrakis like never before in the upcoming sci-fi game Dune: Awakening.
El Niño will cause record-breaking heat across the...
A climate model has forecast where the most extreme heat will occur during the current El Niño phase...
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites from Flori...
SpaceX will launch 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on Leap Day (Feb. 29) after postponing a Crew...
Magic secrets on the moon: Q&A with David Copperfi...
Famed illusionist David Copperfield discusses his involvement with Intuitive Machines' historic moon...
Squid-like plant that lives mostly underground is ...
For the first time in nearly a century, a new genus of plant has been discovered in Japan, but it lo...
'Axion stars' that went boom after the Big Bang co...
Hypothetical particles called axions may have gathered to form "axion stars" that exploded in the ea...
Keto diet helps people maintain weight loss after ...
In a small study, people with type 2 diabetes maintained their weight loss on the low-carbohydrate k...
How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're...
The UK's JET nuclear fusion reactor has been shut down after 40 years, and now researchers hope to r...
Air is leaking from a Russian ISS module, but 'no ...
The space station has a leak at the aft end of the Russian Zvezda service module where the nation's ...
Get to the choppa! Artemis 2 moon astronauts pract...
The Artemis 2 moon astronauts went to the Pacific Ocean this month to practice splashdown operations...
Miso paste made in space opens a new frontier for ...
A fermentation experiment on the International Space Station produced miso paste with a flavour dist...
A simple trick can make a dog treat a stranger as ...
If an unfamiliar person spends 15 minutes following a dog, it tends to follow them back in a possibl...
Why NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps waited an extra 6...
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps was supposed to fly to space in 2018, but it didn't happen. It took two...
A baby star's planet-forming disk has 3 times more...
Astronomers have discovered that the water content of a planet-forming disk around an infant star is...
AIs get better at maths if you tell them to preten...
Chatbots vary their answers depending on the exact wording used to prompt them, and now it seems tha...
SpaceX delays Crew-8 astronaut launch for NASA to ...
SpaceX's first astronaut launch of 2024 will lift off nearly 48 hours later than planned due to weat...
Habitable ocean world K2-18b may actually be inhos...
An exoplanet called K2-18b has been suggested as a good place to look for alien life, but a new anal...
What time is the SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut launch fo...
SpaceX will launch its first NASA astronaut flight of 2024 and you can watch it live online, but you...
Watch the bittersweet trailer for 'Star Trek: Disc...
Paramount+ released a trailer for the fifth and final season of "Star Trek: Discovery."
Private Odysseus moon lander broke a leg during hi...
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander overcame a number of hurdles during its epic Feb. 22 touchd...
Benefits of hyaluronic acid in skincare products h...
Hyaluronic acid's skincare benefits are often attributed to its supposed ability to hold 1000 times ...
Does getting even mild covid-19 affect our cogniti...
A large UK study suggests people who had been infected with covid-19 experienced some cognitive decl...
SpaceX to launch Crew-8 astronauts to the space st...
How to watch SpaceX launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on March 1.
James Webb Space Telescope sees the infrared skele...
This pretty spiral galaxy is an important milestone for cosmologists seeking to understand the expan...
'Constellation' season 1 episode 4 review: Compell...
In its fourth episode, 'Constellation' finds a satisfying balance between personal conflicts and the...
Near miss! NASA satellite, dead Russian spacecraft...
NASA's TIMED Earth-observation satellite and a dead Russian spacecraft nearly slammed into one anoth...
We now know what makes oranges taste of oranges
Researchers have identified 26 chemical compounds responsible for the flavour of oranges, which coul...
