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Christina Koch and Jessica Weir: The Stellar Women of the...

These astronauts are out of this world and breaking new ground for space science.

Darpa Cranks Up Antibody Research to Stall Coronavirus

It's not the same as a vaccine. But a shorter-lived antibody treatment may shield health workers and family members during the early...

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Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest...

An engineering team bored 2 miles into hot rock without causing major earthquakes—a good sign for harnessing the Earth's heat as a...

How Doctors on Earth Treated a Blood Clot on the ISS

A scan revealed a clot in a patient's jugular. The challenge? That patient was an astronaut, 250 miles overhead in the International...

China Launches a Crush of Clinical Trials Aimed at Covid-19

The country's health care system, with its expertise in conducting clinical research, is ready to run new drug tests. But coordinating...

NASA Puts a Price on a 2024 Moon Landing 

Last year, the Vice President directed the space agency to put astronauts back on the moon. NASA crunched the numbers—and it won't...

Can a Database of Animal Viruses Help Predict the Next...

A scientist spent years building a tool to identify coronaviruses that can jump species. Then this winter's virus emerged—and put...

This Marsupial Dies After Marathon Mating. Now It's Got...

Antechinus has so much sex over three weeks that males go blind and die, yet it's climate change that threatens the Australian mammal.

Coronavirus Has a Name: The Deadly Disease Is Covid-19

The virus that causes it is SARS-CoV-2. (We didn't say they were *good* names.)

Hurling Satellites Into Space Seems Crazy—but Might Just...

A startup called SpinLaunch wants to do away with costly launch rockets. Let's look at the physics.