Drugs for treating depression are among the most prescribed category of medications in the U.S. – 1 in 6 American adults take them. Some health researchers and …
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Through a new collaboration between NASA and the National Football League (NFL), the agency will soon bring America’s strengths in space exploration and aeronau…
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off …
A brilliant concentration of stars takes center stage in this Aug. 11, 2026, image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb observed IRS 3, a star near …
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisi…
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The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutti…
At a time of year when dust storm activity winds down, a plume of dust blanketed parts of the West African nation and its neighbors.…
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The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. The…
The Summer Triangle dominates the night sky long after summer begins to fade. So what makes Vega, Altair and Deneb a distinctly summer sight?…
Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections.…
On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA's GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! Here's why the moon gravity mapping mission mattered.…
A huge analysis probes the genetics of personality, finding that the trait is much less straightforward than physical attributes like eye color.…
Operations aboard the Katalyst Space LINK satellite continue, despite the spacecraft's inability to complete its mission of boosting the orbit of NASA's Swift O…
Mercury, which is about one-third the size of Earth, may have shrunk more in its evolution than scientists originally thought.…
A catalog of almost 3,000 white dwarfs that exploded as type Ia supernovas after overfeeding on companion stars indicates that dark energy is changing over time…
During the recent press rounds for Apple TV's Ryan Reynolds/Kenneth Branagh vehicle "Mayday", writer/director duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley talk…
Wrinkles on the surface of Mercury have revealed that the closest planet to the sun is shrinking faster than scientists thought.…
This new satellite image shows Vasquez Rocks in southern California, where Captain Kirk once faced off against the Gorn.…
Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen are planning new journeys after their April 2026 moon mission.…
Though their origins may be shrouded in mystery, fast radio bursts could be used to probe some of the universe's biggest puzzles, including the nature of dark m…