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Administrator Bill Nelson previously announced the agency would look into reports of strange aerial phenomena. Now, the agency has announced its team. | Continue reading
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) shows promise as a way to treat addiction, but also implies that meditating can be useful outside that context. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a landscape of meteor impacts, massive eruptions, and flowing water. | Continue reading
25 years later, seven key members of the production (including director Paul W.S. Anderson and writer Philip Eisner) reveal how 'Event Horizon' was born, died, and resurrected. | Continue reading
This time it's more about body language. In a game of Simon Says, the human was fooled by a robotic companion a room over. | Continue reading
The most successful reboot in science fiction history is easily 'Stargate: SG-1.' Here's how a great 1997 sci-fi show fixed a middling 1994 movie. | Continue reading
In this edition of HORIZONS, read about two experiments headed to the Moon that could solve for mysteries of the Moon's geology and how humans could withstand life on our satellite. | Continue reading
Starting June 30, you won’t need a console to play Xbox games. But how does it play? Here's what we thought after taking the new Samsung smart TV app for a spin. | Continue reading
The plates, taken prior to the launch of Sputnik in the 1950s, show satellite-like objects near Earth. A new study delves into the potential reasons. | Continue reading
You might not recognize the name Wendy Froud (née Midener), but in the practical effects world, she’s a legend. Her work even earned her one of pop culture’s greatest monikers: the Mother of Yoda. | Continue reading
Privateer, co-founded by Steve Wozniak, aims to make space environmentalism its business. Can it’s controversial methods really clean up space junk? | Continue reading
This is why the Kia EV6 will win top trumps at every EV charging station debate: because the high charging speeds resolve one of the biggest paint points of owning an electric vehicle. | Continue reading
Before clocks, humans lived more in sync. | Continue reading
One of the first and most impactful sci-fi films to tackle ecological crisis still resonates today. | Continue reading
Researchers calculated the maximum amount of Dyson Spheres in the Milky Way in order to know what it is they did not find. | Continue reading
Is this just marketing buzzwords or an actually beneficial use of blockchain? Let's discuss Alfa Romeo's NFT announcement. | Continue reading
In October 2017, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua passed through our Solar System, leaving a lot of questions in its wake. | Continue reading
A blinking cursor follows us everywhere in the digital world, but who invented it and why? From block printing to the Apple II, this is the forgotten history of the blinking cursor | Continue reading
NASA announced that the Parker Solar Probe went into the Sun's atmosphere, the closest encounter with our home star. | Continue reading
More than 50 years before the first CubeSat, a group of amateur radio hams built the worlds first, small, private communications satellite. | Continue reading
Humanity’s gut diversity is rapidly disappearing, but competing ideas on how to collect and study our microbiota raise my questions than answers. | Continue reading
Elon Musk is the co-founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and more. But Harvard professor Jill Lepore notes how his love of science fiction reveals a strange background. | Continue reading
Research suggests we're hardwired to seek out tales of heroic adventures. Studies show just thinking about these characters can influence how we feel and act. | Continue reading
The first photo of Earth taken from space is a grainy mess by today's standards, but it captured imaginations in 1946. | Continue reading
"They looked like objects in the world that were not in the world." | Continue reading
Theoretical physicists think they may have made the first direct observation of dark energy — if the results stand up to scrutiny. | Continue reading
Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who helped develop SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, also has experience of working with NASA. | Continue reading
In 1951, the Aerobee-19 rocket launch proved it was possible to send creatures similar to humans to space and bring them back to Earth alive. | Continue reading
Our bodies are a breeding ground. | Continue reading
A scientist resurfaces a psychedelic retelling of human evolution. | Continue reading
A study in mice which is forthcoming in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows one gene is critical to regulating sperm motility. | Continue reading
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is home to hundreds of thousands of individual neurons. Scientists finally know how these neurons "talk" to each other. | Continue reading
Researchers were surprised when mice being treated for diabetes ended up extra shiny — it seems they were secreting fat out through their skin. | Continue reading
Scientists analyze the blood groups of Denisovans and Neanderthals for the first time, leading to a better understanding of human evolution. | Continue reading
Elon Musk's electric car was sent on a tour of the Solar System in February 2018. This week, it completed its second orbit of the Sun. | Continue reading
NASA is no closer to figuring out what went wrong earlier in June, which is bad news for the telescope, which is the only one currently capable of visible light. | Continue reading
A mouse model from the University of Iowa shows that a diet rich in isoflavones mitigated the effects of multiple sclerosis. | Continue reading
A mouse model from the University of Iowa shows that a diet rich in isoflavones mitigated the effects of multiple sclerosis. | Continue reading
The most comprehensive molecular study to date of the brains of people who died of Covid-19 was published Monday in the journal "Nature." | Continue reading
In three years, NASA will launch an orbiter to study Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa. It is possible that Europa harbors hydrothermal vents and even life. | Continue reading
Researchers studying the evolution of male and female human bodies look into farming's impact. | Continue reading
If you use the internet, you’ve probably been pwned before. Here's where the term comes from, and what it actually means. | Continue reading
SpaceX has launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites — but it could have unintended consequences. | Continue reading
A study in 'Nature Communications' combines data from blood analyses and information about physical exercise to identify a new measure influencing "biological age." | Continue reading
In an interview, a leading pioneer in the field of brain-computer interfaces criticized Neuralink's recent forays in the field of neuroscience. | Continue reading
This sci-fi series set a new standard for time travel drama. It’s never been topped. | Continue reading
New research reveals a connection between deforestation and disease outbreaks. | Continue reading