Butt breathing and 5 other ways animals stay warm in winter
Winter has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. With today’s winter solstice, the days will start to get a little bit longer, but the cold will stick around. We humans…
Lost in space: How ’digital twins’ saved NASA’s robots
A standard ballpoint pen will not write in space. Without gravity, the ink refuses to flow. This simple failure illustrates a profound headache in space exploration: tools designed for terrestrial…
Artemis II Crew Rehearse Launch Day Demonstration
The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II test flight depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center…
How to recover your deleted files
Sinking feelings don’t come much worse than when you think you delete something you really need. Many of us now have files synced to the cloud from our phones and…
Bears in Italy inbreed more, but are less aggressive
While bear attacks seem to have become a significant problem in Japan—with the country going as far as deploying the army—new research reveals that an Italian bear species has evolved…
Wind-Sculpted Landscapes: Investigating the Martian Megaripple ‘Hazyview’
Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features…
The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers
The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have…
These Linguists Are Creating a New Dictionary of Ancient Celtic Languages—With Help From ‘Curse Tablets’ and Roman Records
The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these words have already been lost to history
NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-12 Assignments for Space Station Mission
From left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Credit: NASA As part of NASA’s SpaceX…
NASA Johnson’s 2025 Milestones
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration. From Artemis II mission preparations to science aboard the International Space Station, teams…