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‘Space: The Longest Goodbye’ explores astronauts’ mental health

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​science news​​​ By Helen Bradshaw     NASA engineers must quantify everything. But no matter how many equations they use to calculate launch windows, estimate exposure to cosmic →

Forests might serve as enormous neutrino detectors

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     Neutrino detectors don’t grow on trees. Or do they? Forests could one day be used to spot ultra-high-energy neutrinos, a physicist proposes.Trees →

China's new-generation reusable rockets eye maiden flight by 2025, 2026

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​global times​​​ By  Deng Xiaoci      China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC), a state-owned conglomerate and the nation's leading space contractor, is →

Did the James Webb telescope ‘break the universe’? Maybe not

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​science news​​​ By Adam Mann     Reports that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope broke the universe may have been exaggerated.     In its first images, JWST →

Giant tortoise migration in the Galápagos may be stymied by invasive trees

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​science news​​​ By Jake Buehler     After trudging upslope for weeks, a giant tortoise slows its hundreds of cumbersome kilograms to a stop. Dense woods defended by barbed →

Here’s why pain might last after persistent urinary tract infections

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​science news​​​ By Helen Bradshaw     Urinary tract infections are painful, inconvenient and incredibly common. For decades, doctors haven’t had any leads on why, even after →

More than 1 billion people worldwide are now estimated to have obesity

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​science news​​​ By Mc Kenzie Prillaman     It’s no secret that global obesity rates have been rising over the past few decades. But a new analysis quantifies the upsurge. →

A genetic parasite may explain why humans and other apes lack tails

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science news By Erin Garcia de Jesús     A genetic parasite may have robbed humans and other apes of their tails.     Around 25 million years ago, this →

Snake venom toxins can be neutralized by a new synthetic antibody

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​science news​​​ By Meghan Rosen     The antivenom for a black mamba’s bite could one day work for a slew of other snakes.     Scientists have developed an →

China to make around 100 orbital launches in 2024: blue paper

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​global times​​​ By  Deng Xiaoci      China's space development is set to witness new milestones in 2024 with around 100 orbital launches expected to take place, setting →

On hot summer days, this thistle is somehow cool to the touch

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​science news​​​ By Darren Incorvaia     In the mountains of southern Spain, one type of thistle plant seems to have built-in air conditioning.     The flowers →

Ancient trees’ gnarled, twisted shapes provide irreplaceable habitats

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​science news​​​ By Jake Buehler     Earth’s oldest, knotted and scarred pine trees are a boon for forest life.     These old mountain pines (Pinus uncinata) →

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