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The Guardian

Follow latest updates, including how to watch the launch, as four astronauts prepare to set off on a 10-day, 685,000-mile journey with millions watching Three of Artemis II’s four crew members are Nasa astronauts and spaceflight veterans...

PsyPost

A recent study published in the journal PLOS One suggests that watching a specific, emotionally engaging video can reduce racial bias and increase generosity toward Black Americans. The findings provide evidence that media designed to...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our brains courtesy of Hannah Critchlow, to get to grips with really big numbers, thanks to Richard Elwes

SciTech Daily

An established drug shows unexpected promise against long COVID fatigue. A widely used antidepressant may offer unexpected relief for one of long COVID’s most stubborn symptoms. In a new clinical trial, researchers found that fluvoxamine...

SciTech Daily

Internalized stress may be an overlooked driver of memory decline in aging populations. Stress internalization may quietly accelerate memory loss in older Chinese Americans, according to new research from Rutgers Health. The findings...

Scientific American

The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will carry out a packed schedule during their trip around the moon’s far side

Scientific American

The U.S. space agency is targeting Wednesday evening to loft four astronauts on what may be a record-breaking trip around the moon—see the spacecraft live

Scientific American

A Wisconsin-sized region of frozen soil is thawing fast, releasing three trillion more gallons of water per year than it did just four decades ago

Universe Today

New AI tool validates over 100 new planets, finds thousands of candidates, and gives our best estimate for how likely it is to find certain planets around Sun-like...

PsyPost

Practicing mindfulness meditation using a mobile application for a month can help people process visual information and initiate localized eye movements faster. The visual attention benefits apply to young, middle-aged, and older adults...

SciTech Daily

The benefits of GLP-1 drugs may fade faster than expected when treatment is interrupted. GLP-1 drugs have quickly moved from niche diabetes treatments to some of the most talked-about medications in the country. Drugs such as semaglutide...

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Ars Technica

Many of the early exoplanet discoveries were exciting on their own, confirming that there really were strange new worlds out in the Universe. But over time, our focus has shifted more toward numbers, as we began using the frequency of...

StudyFinds.org

A new study mapping how climate change will reshape air quality across the United States lays out a future where bad air days are no longer exceptions but seasonal norms for a vast share of the population. The post By 2100, Over 100...

Quanta Magazine

Last summer, a wedding photographer walked begrudgingly into a physics laboratory outside Rome. Feeling uninspired by the intricate machinery around him, he decided to turn off the lights. “I wanted to create a world that was a bit more...

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Learn how a fossil from Utah’s Wheeler Formation reveals where early spider relatives lived, how quickly complex animal body plans emerged after the Cambrian Explosion, and why those traits took millions of years to shape ecosystems.

Science News

A Utah fossil shows early relatives of spiders and scorpions already had distinctive front claws 500 million years ago.

SciTech Daily

A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full day of teaching, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril turned to a task he found especially rewarding: preparing a Cambrian arthropod fossil for study. As he...

Popular Science

The fossil was completely unremarkable. That’s what Harvard University paleontologist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril initially thought while examining an arthropod fossil dating back to the Cambrian period (538.8 million to 485.4 million years...

Scientific American

A record warm winter meant that snow levels across the western U.S. were already low, but an incredible March heat wave has made things even worse

Science Focus

With NASA’s Artemis II mission ready and waiting on the launch pad, it’s almost time for humans to return to the Moon for the first time since 1972. The mission will take a crew of four astronauts – commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor...

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Plug-in solar panels are a cheaper, simpler alternative to professionally installed panels. But can they really reduce energy bills and are they safe? Matthew Sparkes investigates

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

A virus seems to have jumped from marine animals into people for the first time ever, and it is causing serious vision problems

Ars Technica

In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being...

Scientific American

On their voyages to the moon, NASA’s astronauts are finally getting some creature comforts of terrestrial toilets—such as having a door and being able to pee and poop simultaneously

PsyPost

A recent study published in Personality and Individual Differences suggests that people who believe words can cause lasting psychological damage tend to experience worse mental health. The findings provide evidence that this specific...

Scientific American

Humans are the only species that has chins. A recent study sheds light on how that came to be and why evolution doesn’t always follow the rules

SciTech Daily

Thawing Arctic ground is unleashing ancient carbon—and speeding up climate change. Scientists have taken a detailed new look at what happens when Arctic permafrost begins to thaw, revealing major changes to water flow and carbon movement...

Universe Today

The early universe is absolutely so far outside our understanding of how the world works it's hard to describe in words. Back then, the cosmos wasn’t filled with stars and galaxies but with a boiling soup of quarks and gluons, with a few...

Science News

Quantum computers based on atoms could provide access to encrypted data much sooner than scientists thought.

Ars Technica

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—Launching to the Moon is an all-day undertaking, something the four astronauts waiting to climb aboard NASA's Artemis II rocket know well. "It is actually a very long day," said Victor Glover, the pilot on...

MIT Technology Review

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home  When Zeus, a medical student in...

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Researchers directly observed tetroxides for the first time, showing they exist in normal air conditions and play key roles in atmospheric chemistry, combustion, and medicine. Scientists have, for the first time, directly detected an...

NPR Science

Journalist Beth Gardiner says the fossil fuel industry is increasingly reliant upon plastic products. Her book is Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil's Biggest Bet.

The Guardian

The more than 100 bat species living in the Mozambican reserve’s labyrinth of caves play a key role in maintaining a fragile ecosysytem that benefits wildlife and people • Words and photographs by Kang-Chun Cheng After wriggling gingerly...

PsyPost

An analysis of the China Education Panel Survey (2014-2015) data found that better parent-child communication is associated with stronger non-cognitive abilities in adolescents. The link was found to be both direct and achieved...

Scientific American

Scientists are designing techniques to smash up space rocks that could be headed our way

MIT Technology Review

When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts recording himself. He...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman withdrawal from Britain, but other researchers say that isn't backed up by historical evidence

SciTech Daily

Most people want autism breakthroughs—but few know the crucial role brain donation plays in making them happen. Autism BrainNet has released new survey results showing a striking gap between public support for autism research and...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A. Corey are among the science-fiction books we’re looking forward to this month

PsyPost

A recent study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly suggests that young men who favor the internet subculture known as the tradwife movement tend to hold hostile and patronizing sexist attitudes. The findings provide evidence that...

Wired Science

The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment.

The Guardian

Within the lunar dirt is a type of helium so rare on Earth that a palm-sized container is estimated to be worth millions In the silent vacuum of space, five autonomous robots churn through the lunar surface, digging up a loose layer of...

The Guardian

Almost 30 years after scientists mapped the nerves in the penis, they’ve done the same for the clitoris. At least men have stopped denying it exists There’s no excuse for being icliterate any more. It was a long time coming, but, almost 30...

Yale Environment 360

Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Read more on E360 →

SciTech Daily

Saturn’s magnetic shield is unexpectedly lopsided, with its entry point for solar particles pushed off-center. Scientists believe its fast spin and material from its moon Enceladus are warping the entire system. Saturn’s magnetic field...

NPR Science

NASA's Artemis II mission aims to send four astronauts around the moon on a roughly 10-day journey that could help pave the way toward a future lunar landing. (Image credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA)