Technology
If Betelgeuse Explodes, Just How Bright Will It Get?
This supergiant star is in our celestial neighborhood, and it’s threatening to go supernova. What would that look like from down here?
NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms Are...
Collins Aerospace is expected to back out of a contract with NASA, while high interest rates and a difficult supply chain environment...
Aging Might Not Be Inevitable
There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood,...
Air So Polluted It Can Kill Isn’t Being Taken Seriously...
Toxic air kills over half a million children every year, yet only once has air pollution been listed as a cause of death on a death...
With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life
Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and...
Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business
If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figure out the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions...
Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain
Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a “nutritional value” to society—and that the public desperately deserve a better offering.
Boeing's Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While...
The space agency has pushed back the spacecraft’s return to an unspecified date in July, to give it more time to look into the problems...
Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients...
It’s a question of when, not if, highly effective treatments become available, says the CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK. But that doesn’t...
Post-Pandemic Recovery Isn’t Guaranteed
The aftermath of a disaster like Covid can be divided into roughly three stages: the honeymoon, the slump, and the uptick. The aim...
