US also pulling out of pacts promoting development, democracy, and human rights. Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the US from the world’s most important climate treaty, as well as from dozens of other international organizations, as the president intensifies efforts to upend decades of global cooperation tackling rising…
“The matter involved a single crew member who is stable,” NASA said in a statement. Someone on the International Space Station suffered an unspecified “medical situation” Wednesday, prompting the postponement of a planned spacewalk and raising the possibility of an early return for a portion of the lab’s seven-person…
Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers. On Wednesday, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority announced that it is halting the relicensing process for two reactors at the Hamaoka plant after revelations that the plant’s chosen operator fabricated seismic hazard data. Japan has been slowly reactivating its…
Rather than being used as a storage material, the sulfur gives up electrons. Anyone paying attention to battery research sees sulfur come up frequently. That’s mostly because sulfur is a great storage material for lithium, and it could lead to lithium batteries with impressive power densities. But sulfur can…
A recent study suggests that North Africa may be a key place to look. A group of 773,000-year-old hominin fossils from Morocco may shed new light on when our species branched off from the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans. A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil…
A lot could happen in space next year, but let’s get real about what actually will. Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking vistas of other worlds, and a multitude of breakthroughs and setbacks. 2026 is shaping…
The Trump admin can’t arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate. One of the first signs of what would become an ongoing attack on scientific research came when the Trump administration ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to radically reduce research funding for universities. These funds,…
Trump administration had suspended Danish group’s work on major wind farm off coast of Rhode Island. Ørsted is seeking a court injunction against the Trump administration’s decision to suspend its work on a major wind farm project off the US northeast coast. In the latest salvo between the US…
The changes are modeled after a small country with universal health care. Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health officials on Monday announced a sweeping and unprecedented overhaul of federal vaccine recommendations, abruptly paring down recommended immunizations for children from 17 to 11. Officials claimed the…
New findings prompt a rethinking of group labor and ritual in ancient hunter-gatherer communities. Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper published in the journal Science Advances, radiocarbon testing dates the site to about 9,500 years…
