NASA Holds Out Hope of Recovering Voyager 1 Probe
A dose of a Moderna covid-19 vaccine being prepared.Photo: Sholten Singer (AP) Here’s one weird trick for making the most out of your next two-dose vaccine: get a shot in…
Our First Look at a Newborn Great White Shark
A T. rex fossil named Trix.Photo: Dean Mouhtaropoulos (Getty Images) Scaly, feathered, toothed, or beaked—long-necked, spike-tailed, tiny, or gargantuan—dinosaurs are a wildly diverse group. But certain dinos stand above the…
See Inside NASA’s Finally-Unstuck Asteroid Sample Container
The team used its new camera system to show how a UV-sensitive bird sees orange sulphur butterflies in nature.Image: Daniel Hanley Scientists say they’ve invented a piece of technology that…
Deep Sea ROV Encounters Unknown Octopus Species and More Science News of the Week
An Aspergillus mold under a microscope.Image: M-Production (Shutterstock) The global burden and death toll of fungi has substantially climbed over the past decade, new research finds. The study estimates that…
Peregrine Moon Mission Runs Into Disaster, and More Top Science News of the Week
Photo: David Joseph Sometimes, a moment is so fleeting or a scene is so small that not even the fiercest squint can capture it. Advertisement Thankfully, that’s where cameras—and the…
NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Plane Preps for Flight and More Top Science News of the Week
We’ll Get to See NASA’s Sonic Boom-Less Supersonic Plane Next Week Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View Off English NASA’s supersonic experimental plane—the linchpin of…
A SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks, and More Science News of the Week
An example of what a deep brain stimulation device looks like under X-ray imaging.Photo: Hellerhoff/Wikimedia Commons Modern medicine has extended our lives and reduced suffering in all kinds of ways.…
A SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks, and More Science News of the Week
An example of what a deep brain stimulation device looks like under X-ray imaging.Photo: Hellerhoff/Wikimedia Commons Modern medicine has extended our lives and reduced suffering in all kinds of ways.…
Rings Around Uranus, Leather Made of Human Skin, and More Top Science News of the Week
Image: Artiom Photo (Shutterstock) Your snack habit may be even more calorie-dense than you think, recent research suggests. A study estimated that snacking contributes to around 20% of an average…
Voyager 1 Is Glitching Out and More Top Science News of the Week
Space is hard, as the cliché reminds us, and that was plenty clear this week, as several groups ran into trouble: NASA with its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, AstroForge with…