After a remarkably smooth launch campaign, Artemis II reached its last stop before the Moon. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—Preparations for the first human spaceflight to the Moon in more than 50 years took a big step forward this weekend with the rollout of the Artemis II rocket to its…
Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, suggesting scientists have underestimated cow cognition Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss brown cow…
Ignoring the blue economy has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance. The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It is the…
“I’ve got one job, and it’s the safe return of Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy.” KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—The rocket NASA is preparing to send four astronauts on a trip around the Moon will emerge from its assembly building on Florida’s Space Coast early Saturday for a slow crawl…
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an enormous medieval cargo ship lying on the seafloor off the Danish coast, and it reveals new details of medieval trade and life at sea. Archaeologists discovered the shipwreck while surveying…
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…
