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Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?

"We felt like now is the time to pour gas on that fire."

Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light

How to build powerful microhabits for your wellbeing – and keep them

Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones.

1,500 Magnets Could Form a Power-Free Radiation Shield for Astronauts

A 0.37-square-meter panel built from about 1,500 neodymium permanent magnets could deflect roughly 20% of low-energy…

Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds

A 16-year-old Mexican student named Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández has invented an acoustic fire extinguisher called…

Boy developed "toasted skin" condition from using a laptop every day

Laptops don't usually get hot enough to burn—but they can still be harmful.

The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about

OpenAI's recent proof settling a long-standing question about the Navier-Stokes equations includes a formal proof in…

Bodily Oddities

This website catalogs 136 unusual bodily phenomena, categorized by body region and type, ranging from common occurrences…

Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument

Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.

Natural feedbacks will warm world an extra 20 per cent this century

Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise.

Proxima Fusion bets €140M on a critical fusion ingredient dominated by Asian suppliers

Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans to build a €140 million ($162.6 million) factory to produce fusion-grade…

Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”

The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.

We may finally know what kick-starts muscle contractions in childbirth

An influx of immune cells into the uterus may be what initiates childbirth.

Gamma ray burst may have been two supernovae in one

A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but…

NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth

Archaeologist Jon Harman discovered that decorrelation stretch, a NASA image-enhancement technique originally developed…

Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is…

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

Mathematicians have discovered a new proof of the four-color theorem, a famous problem stating that any map can be…

The world’s biggest carbon sink may start emitting CO2 after net zero

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it…

Who People Talk to When They're Struggling

Americans turn to different people when struggling with mental health depending on their religious beliefs and political…

Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA's first astronaut emeriti

"Artemis II is done."

Cracking the ageing code

Where financial health meets human longevity.

Unravel the secrets of a priceless piece of British history

The blockbuster exhibition - with a stellar cast of experts telling the Tapestry's story

August was the joint hottest month on record

Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and…

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

This interactive visualization demonstrates relativistic physics by simulating a world where the speed of light is only…

I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

An economist's article warning about AI-designed superviruses lacks credibility, according to a computational biologist…

AI Is Solving Math's Best Problems Faster Than They Can Be Replaced, Terence Tao Warns

The Fields medalist points to a real race between OpenAI and Anthropic as proof: AI can now flatten a hard problem the…

Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment

"We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence."

Factoring RSA 260

Researchers at Cognition successfully factored RSA-260, a 260-digit number, setting a new record for the largest…