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SpaceX’s Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.Credit: Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock The huge explosions that destroyed SpaceX’s Starship…

Hefei, China On a cold February morning in Hefei, the snow-blanketed grounds of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of…

Too often, the potential of a biomedical discovery to tackle disease is not fully realized. Perhaps the economic return is…

Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back Sophie Yeo HarperNorth (2024) A century ago, the…

Citations for cash: researchers have identified services where scholars can buy citations to their papers in bulk.Credit: Vergani_Fotografia/Getty Research-integrity watchers…

Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what…

People gather around a roadside pipeline to collect drinking water in Bangladesh.Credit: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto/Getty Approximately 4.4 billion people drink unsafe…

“When harvesting wind energy, keeping an eye on turbines is crucial, particularly on an island as windy and tropical as…

Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of…

After reading this story, you might want to clean your microwave oven.Credit: Maksim Kostenko/Alamy ‘Extremophiles’ are organisms that can survive,…