This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons. Two Americans, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Thursday after 167 days in orbit, cutting short their stay on the International Space Station by more than…
Shadrack Byfield lost his left arm in the War of 1812; his life sheds light on post-war re-integration. History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the War of 1812 and lost his left arm to a musket…
Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don’t chew their food thoroughly. A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna species, the woolly rhinoceros. When researchers dissected the frozen mummified remains of an Ice Age wolf puppy,…
A new rule aims to speed up and streamline the permitting process. The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule aimed at speeding up and streamlining the permitting process for large energy and infrastructure projects, including oil and gas pipelines and facilities tied to artificial intelligence. The rule,…
New language criticizes “uncertainties” in longstanding EPA practice. If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving in this same direction—removing the benefit—when…
Scientists analyzed carbonate deposits from baths, aqueduct to learn more about city’s changing water supply. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock,…
“It was not recognized how serious a problem that is until… about 2017 or 2018.” Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway stars. From its perch a million miles from Earth, Webb’s huge gold-coated mirror collects…
Footage of the 2024 discovery appears in NatGeo’s new documentary series Pole to Pole with Will Smith. In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geographic camera crew was on hand for the 2022 expedition that documented the new…
For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year. In 2025, their measurements broke records…
Hunter-gatherers probably derived the poison from the milky bulb extract of a Boophone disticha plant. Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective weapons, and deploying them in battle, in Greek…
