The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will take a broad survey of space and use it to create a map of the universe.
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Each day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.
Meta’s settlement calls for several key design changes to protect teens, but how the states will verify and enforce the changes is a big question mark.
Around 97% of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer die within five years. Researchers have figured out a way to target the mechanism that makes these tumors so deadly.
Despite advances in neuroscience, the underlying biology of mental illness has remained elusive. The DSM-6 will attempt to integrate neurobiology into how clinicians diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions.
The vast majority of people around the world are lactose intolerant. But American propaganda and scientific biases have made milk and dairy products a staple in global diets.
Terms that are direct analogs to sexual intercourse are widely used to describe connector ends, but the language is evolving away from those problematic words.
Extended producer responsibility policies are gaining steam in the US, but what they entail can differ widely from state to state.
To understand what’s in the smoke you might be breathing, you have to look at where it’s been.
Energy transfer is the secret ingredient that makes iced tea a particularly refreshing drink on a hot day.
Protein powders and protein-fortified versions of all manner of foods line grocery store shelves. But just because something has added protein doesn’t necessarily make it better.
Algorithms on X tend to bring you posts that contradict your values, and it happens more to Democrats than Republicans.
Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
Large datasets can be useful research tools, but current government efforts to gather medical records depend on policy and technology that falls short of protecting people’s privacy.
A long bath in brine is how deli meat gets its taste, texture and shelf life.
Millions of people suffer from debilitating symptoms their doctors don’t quite believe. But advances in neuroscience and education may be changing the tides for treatment.
Interstellar maps can help scientists find patterns that tell them about fundamental chemical processes in the cosmos.
Alcohol abstinence alters brain activity in ways that may drive someone with alcohol use disorder to relapse.
Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we cross them again, the lead author of a new study writes.
Chatbots are becoming commonplace in teens’ lives, but these tools were never developed or validated for mental health support.
NASA’s CADRE mission will test a small team of autonomous rovers that can function without constant communication with Earth.
AI agents cross company boundaries, but proof of their authority often does not. When they overstep, no single record shows what the user allowed.
For too many companies, the adoption of artificial intelligence has become an AI hunger game that spreads fear rather than engagement.
Orbital data centers, space habitats, mining the Moon – despite taking place in space, the practices many companies are imagining will still affect the Earth.
Nations that lead the development of open-source technology will have a strategic edge for decades to come.