Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out
The exodus has set off alarms among staff at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “My main concern is they will be replaced with puppets."Read More
SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight
After being postponed twice—and after multiple failed attempts—Starship's tenth test flight was a success.Read More
NASA’s Largest Satellite Antenna Ever Has Just Unfurled in Space
NISAR, a giant orbiting antenna 39 feet in diameter, will monitor changes to glaciers, forests, and the Earth’s crust, providing data to help improve infrastructure and disaster responses.Read More
What It’s Like to Work at a Body Farm
The scavengers are tricky, the smells are gross, and your colleagues are corpses. But some people—mostly women!—love this job.Read More
NASA Accepts Proposals for 2026 Student Launch Challenge
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is kicking off the 2026 Student Launch challenge, looking for new student teams to design, build, and launch high-powered rockets with a scientific or engineering payload next April. The agency is seeking proposals until Monday, Sept. 22. Details about this year’s challenge are in [...]
IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms
The tool models the sun using AI, and its developers say it can anticipate solar flares 16 percent more accurately and in half the time of current prediction systems.Read More
The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.Read More
What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?
This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.Read More
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave
In March 2025 the Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun, but lasting only milliseconds.Read More
Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
This deadly bacteria, which hits low-income people the hardest, was once an “only in New York” problem. Extreme heat is now increasing its prevalence.Read More