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Science • May 25

Why science is becoming less innovative

AN INFLUENTIAL STUDY in 2023 found that science was becoming less transformative, producing fewer breakthroughs and more incremental advances.

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Science • May 25

Voyager 1’s famous Pale Blue Dot photograph was nearly never taken — Carl Sagan pushed NASA to turn the camera back toward Earth after the planetary mission was over, while engineers worried the Sun’s glare could damage the optics

On February 14, 1990, six billion kilometers from the sun, Voyager 1 swiveled around and took a photograph of Earth. In the frame, the planet appears as a...

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Science • May 25

WATCH: SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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Science • May 25

A Single Skull Just Rewrote What We Know About Stegosaurs

One fossilized skull from a Spanish quarry forced scientists to tear up the stegosaur family tree, and what they replaced it with changes everything.

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Science • May 25

Scientists Reveal a Bizarre Space-Time Structural Phenomenon That Could Be Creating Baby Black Holes

The space-time oddities of modern physics may have just been taken to a new level of odd, as researchers have revealed that space and time can be used to...

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Science • May 25

Mars fungi could make red planet regolith fertile for crops

You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you've been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on a Martian settlement.

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Science • May 25

A once in a blue moon event is happening soon. Here's when to look up

This only happens once in a blue moon, literally. May's second full moon is almost here, and not only is it a rare blue moon, but it will also be a...

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Science • May 25

Physicists believe that warp drive could exist in the next 100 years

Warp drive could reshape interstellar travel, but negative energy, instability, and causality still stand in the way.

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Science • May 25

Did 3I/ATLAS Deliver Extrasolar Life to Our Backyard?

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS grazed the habitable zone of the Solar System on a path that was aligned to within 4.88 degrees with the orbital plane of...

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Science • May 25

Scientists Just Turned Silkworm Silk Into a Near-Kevlar Supermaterial

Spider silk is reportedly five times stronger than steel. With some genetic adjustments, silkworm silk can get even tougher. And now, one team says it's...

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Science • May 25

Jersey Skies: Asteroid mission buzzes Mars

NASA's Psyche spacecraft was launched in 2023 on a mission to an asteroid. It recently swung by Mars — not to explore the red planet but to steal a little...

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Science • May 25

Could Launching Tumors Into Space Help Medicine Beat Cancer?

A new experiment is seeking to validate whether living cancer samples can be prepared, operated, monitored, and recovered under flight conditions without...

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Science • May 25

Many astronauts describe a quiet realization when they look down at Earth from orbit — that the borders and political lines we treat as permanent are invisible from above

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut selected for the Artemis II crew, has perhaps the cleanest description of what she sees from the cupola of...

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Science • May 25

Can humans reproduce in space? China sends artificial embryos into orbit to find out

New Delhi: Sustaining human life in space is a question that has long occupied researchers. Now in an attempt to find out if human reproduction can occur in...

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Science • May 25

Scientists want to send a roly-poly robot filled with 'dandelion drones' to investigate hidden tunnels on Mars

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

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Science • May 25

Scientists want to send a roly-poly robot filled with 'dandelion drones' to investigate hidden tunnels on Mars

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

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Science • May 25

The solar system's largest moon may be heating up — offering clues to its mysterious origins

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter's Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is...

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Science • May 25

Consciousness might not be something the brain creates — it might be a fundamental feature of reality itself, more like gravity than like a thought — and one of the most credentialed neuroscientists alive is now arguing that mainstream science has been wrong

The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular structural assumption.

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Science • May 25

A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid

The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it studies, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its...

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Science • May 25

NASA is building a nuclear reactor for the Moon by 2030 — and testing the nuclear propulsion that could carry humans to Mars in the decade after — under a new directive that revives a space-nuclear ambition the agency has been quietly chasing since Apoll

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced, on January 13, 2026, that they had signed a memorandum of understanding committing the two agencies to the...

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