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Crewmate Stands By The Story: Lobsterman Really Was Gulped By A Whale
Josiah Mayo recounts the whale of tale, and dispels any skeptics. -
Where No Plywood Has Gone Before: A Space Agency Will Launch A Tiny, Wooden Satellite
Earth-orbiting satellites usually end their lives in a fiery reentry — but a tiny CubeSat scheduled for launch by the European Space Agency later this… -
Harvard Doctor On Why He Quit FDA Panel Over ‘Inexcusable’ Approval Of A New Alzheimer’s Drug
The approval of Aduhelm, made by Cambridge-based Biogen, had been previously voted against by the FDA advisory committee, and has been wildly controversial. -
An 11-Minute Flight To Space Was Just Auctioned For $28 Million
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is going into space on July 20 on a reusable rocket made by his space exploration company, Blue Origin. So is his younger… -
Apple iPhones Can Soon Hold Your ID. Privacy Experts Are On Edge
Buying a coffee and grabbing a train is already possible with an iPhone, but Apple wants to replace the physical wallet completely. To that end, earlier… -
What Causes The Northern Lights? Scientists Finally Know For Sure
Nothing can ruin our joy in the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, those ribbons of blue, green and violet light that cascade from the sky. Not even… -
NASA Is About To Fly By The Largest Moon In The Solar System
Jupiter's moon Ganymede will have a visitor from Earth on Monday. At 1:35 p.m. ET, NASA's Juno spacecraft will zoom by, just 645 miles above the surface… -
The Vatican's Space Observatory Wants To See Stars And Faith Align
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — At a time of growing diffidence toward some new scientific discoveries, the one and only Vatican institution that does scientific… -
NASA Picks Twin Missions To Visit Venus, Earth's 'Evil Twin'
NASA has decided to send two new missions to Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, making it the first time the agency will go to this scorching hot… -
Why Jumping Spiders Spend All Night Hanging Out — Literally
Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big eyes to spot prey so that they can pounce, can spend a lot of the night just hanging…
