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A mid-orbit rescue mission turns orbital debris risk into a managed problem, not a headline tragedy.
A Tohoku University study links stick shifts to stronger cognitive activity, with dementia prevention implications.
The researchers won’t call it alive, but it blurs the chemistry-biologiy boundary in a way regulators and investors will notice.
The Earth Photo 2026 win spotlights coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories, with bigger implications for climate risk.
China’s National Natural Science Foundation says it is expanding grants. The catch: will more money cool or intensify competition?
A hurricane tool accidentally turned into a global sensor of Earth and weather, changing what scientists can measure.
An “impossible” early-universe signal suggests some galaxies cleared hydrogen fog much faster than models assumed.
What it looks like to run a mission where boredom, confinement, and systems risk are the main adversaries.
Tedros says final exposed contact completed quarantine, with no new cases since May 25.
Good news for drought resilience models and climate projections: 70+ meter giants are not uniquely more vulnerable.
A decade-tracked study links uninterrupted sedentary stretches to higher cancer mortality, with every added hour worsening risk.
WD 1856 b orbits in 1.4 Earth days, and Webb’s transit data helps explain how it survived and warmed up.
