Technology
Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk...
Hampered last month by bad weather, launch tower problems, and issues with its ride from SpaceX, the Polaris Dawn mission is at last...
Crispr-Enhanced Viruses Are Being Deployed Against UTIs
With antibiotics losing their effectiveness, one company is turning to gene editing and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—to...
The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing...
Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational...
The concept of space-time makes Star Trek-style warp drives theoretically possible, and researchers have proposed a way of detecting...
The Mosquito-Borne Disease ‘Triple E’ Is Spreading in the...
Eastern equine encephalitis, which has a high mortality rate, is becoming more common in North America as climate changes expands...
Why Polio Has Reemerged in Gaza
After a quarter of a century, the disease has returned to Gaza, prompting a campaign to immunize all of the territory's children against...
Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future
NASA has three more operational Starliner missions on the books. It hasn't decided whether it will commit to any more than that.
What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete...
The rapid expansion of Cancún since the 1970s has created a vastly unequal city, with overpopulated neighborhoods deprived of public...
Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d...
Unlike in the Atlantic, there is little to stop high-intensity storms forming in Southeast Asia, and climate change is making conditions...
Moon GPS Is Coming
Nations and companies are ramping up their efforts to deploy the first satnav on the moon to support a flurry of planned missions...
