NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will no longer land on the moon as originally planned, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced February 27 in a news conference. Instead, the agency …
Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors examined brain samples from deceased donors ranging …
More than 12,000 years ago, two closely-related women – a mother and her daughter, perhaps – were buried in an eternal embrace. This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them …
Psst! Can you keep a secret? Yana Iskayeva/Getty Images The average person is keeping nine types of secrets, ranging from having told a lie to covert romantic desires. This can be a major burden, because secrets have the troubling habit …
A growing body of research suggests the brain plays a central role in diabetic ketoacidosis, opening the possibility of treating type 1 diabetes in an entirely new way. More than 10 years ago, scientists made an unexpected discovery about a …
Major scientific advances often require patience, and this discovery is a prime example. After nearly 50 years of theory and repeated failed attempts by research groups around the world, David Scheschkewitz, Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at Saarland University, …
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In just one week, a spectacular display of orbital mechanics will be visible to billions of people across the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, as Earth’s shadow sweeps across the lunar disk, triggering the onset of an awe-inspiring ‘blood moon’ total …
At 7 kelvin — a temperature so cold that even air would freeze solid — a single molecule sits on a copper surface. It is, by most reckoning, one of the smallest objects ever deliberately interrogated: a ring of four …
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