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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
73Science
A Propulsion Center's New Director and the Test of Institutional Memory
Returns to the Center of Excellence for Propulsion On Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, one of NASA's largest field centers changed hands. Administrator Jared Isaacman named Stephen Cash director of the Marshall Space Flight...
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74Science
The Moon Has a Color Code, and Four Humans Read It Aloud
The most valuable science from Artemis II did not come out of a camera. It came out of a stylus, a tablet, and four people trained to describe what they saw before the memory of it faded The mission itself is worth...
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75Science
Martian Moons Sample Return Mission MMX
For more than a hundred years, researchers have argued about where the two Martian moons came from. The debate has been framed as a binary: either Phobos and Deimos are captured asteroids, wandering rocks that Mars...
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76Science
A Trip to Mars Could Break Your Heart, and the Damage Wouldn't Show Up for Months
Here is the number that should stop anyone planning a mission to the Red Planet: by 270 days after a single exposure to simulated deep space radiation, the amount of scar tissue around the heart's blood vessels had...
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77Science
Your Mood Is Part of Your Immune System
In the early 2000s, a team led by Sheldon Cohen at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, did something that sounds less like medicine and more like a dare. 1] They recruited 334 volunteers willing to...
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78Science
When the Test Fails, Not the Machine
Two research groups at Yale University approach the same puzzle from opposite ends. John Sous asks whether the exams are broken. Logan Wright asks whether the laboratory can be rebuilt so a machine can walk through it....
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79Science
Venus Was Never Supposed to Get a Second Chance
NASA's DAVINCI mission is now targeting a December 2030 launch, a full 54 weeks earlier than the previous plan. 1] The Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging will send a parachute...
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80Science
When a Rocket's Skin Betrays It: Rocket Lab's Neutron Slips to 2027
Rocket Lab set out to build the largest pressurized structure ever made from carbon composite. The company's engineers were chasing a specific prize: a reusable first stage for the Neutron rocket that would be light...
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81Science
A Diamond Quantum Computer in a Virginia Classroom
When a school district announces it will install a quantum computer, the easy assumption is that students will use it to solve problems no ordinary machine can touch. The truth is almost the opposite. In January,...
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82Science
A Quarter of US Soldiers Show Low Testosterone
For decades, military medicine has tracked hearing loss, traumatic brain injury, heat casualties and sleep debt. It has measured almost everything that could degrade a soldier's body except one hormone that sits near...
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83Science
Five Brain Patterns Under One Depression Label
Two people can sit in the same clinic, receive the same diagnosis of major depressive disorder, and walk out with brains that look nothing alike. That is the finding that challenges the long held assumption that...
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84Science
AI Doesn't Sleep: Inside the New Frontline of Britain's Cyber Defence
For most of the past decade, the people guarding Britain's digital infrastructure measured their work in human hours. A team of analysts watched screens. A team of attackers typed commands. Both sides got tired. Both...
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