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NASA's Voyager 1 phones home after months
NASA's Voyager 1 probe -- the most distant man-made object in the universe -- is returning usable information to ground control following months of spouting gibberish, the US space agency announced...
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FTC chief says tech advancements risk health care price fixing
New technologies are making it easier for companies to fix prices and discriminate against individual consumers, the Biden administration’s top consumer watchdog said Tuesday. Algorithms make it...
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Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs
For decades, concerns about automobile pollution have focused on what comes out of the tailpipe. Now, researchers and regulators say, we need to pay more attention to toxic emissions from tires as...
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Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts
Most of us have been stung by a bee and we know it’s not much fun. But maybe we also felt a tinge of regret, or vindication, knowing the offending bee will die. Right? Well, for 99.96% of bee species,...
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Shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images are the latest...
If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: children holding paintings that look like the work of professional...
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Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the solar system – but one called Enceladus stands out. It appears to have the ingredients for life. From 2004 to 2017, Cassini – a joint...
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Genetics studies have a diversity problem that researchers struggle to fix
CHARLESTON, S.C. — When he recently walked into the dental clinic at the Medical University of South Carolina donning a bright-blue pullover with “In Our DNA SC” embroidered prominently on the front,...
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Heatstroke kills 30 in Thailand this year as kingdom bakes
Thailand issued fresh warnings about scorching hot weather on Thursday as the government said heatstroke has already killed at least 30 people this year.City authorities in Bangkok gave an extreme...
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Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: study
Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday found, despite the birds' attempts to adapt to the shrinking...
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U.S. surgeons transplant pig kidney to live patient for second time
Surgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the second time, a hospital said Wednesday, celebrating an advance in animal-to-human organ...
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U.S. astronauts prep for first crewed flight on Boeing's Starliner
Two U.S. astronauts arrived Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of their launch aboard the Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission next month.Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will...
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U.S. approves gene therapy treatment for hemophilia
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has received U.S. approval for a gene therapy against a form of hemophilia, a rare and inherited blood clotting disorder, the company said Friday.Beqvez, which is given as...
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The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future
A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from...
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Cybersecurity researchers find a new ransomware threat – be careful where you...
You probably know better than to click on links that download unknown files onto your computer. It turns out that uploading files can get you into trouble, too.Today’s web browsers are much more...
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Cicada-palooza! Billions of bugs to blanket America
They're loud. They're sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month up to a trillion of them will engulf suburbs and woodlands across America.Two cicada "broods" are set for a rare double...
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Websites deceive users by deliberately hiding the extent of data collection...
Websites sometimes hide how widely they share our personal information, and can go to great lengths to pull the wool over our eyes. This deception is intended to prevent full disclosure to consumers,...
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Filipino farmers struggle as drought and heatwave hits
Filipino farmer Daniel Velasco pumps water from a well in a desperate attempt to save his wilting vegetables, as a scorching heatwave and the worst drought in years hits crops.It has hardly rained on...
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Climate change, Brexit threaten to wilt Dutch tulips
Arjan Smit gazes out over his tulip fields, a riot of red and pink flowers he has cultivated all his adult life and part of a family business his grandfather started in 1940.The 55-year-old has seen...
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Tapping into the heat beneath Nevadans’ feet
This story was originally published by The Nevada Independent. Sign up for its newsletters here.With highly fractured, permeable ground, the Great Basin’s geology makes it one of the most geothermally...
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As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here.Last fall, I invited a stranger into my yard. Manzanita, with its peeling red bark and delicate pitcher-shaped...
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