NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Retires
NASA astronaut Suni Williams at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Naval Ordnance Test Unit basin in Florida on March 28, 2018. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After 27 years of service, NASA…
New NASA Artemis Payloads To Study Moon’s Terrain, Radiation, History
NASA NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. As part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload…
NIH Supplements, Facts First Challenge
Image credit: HeroX NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to…
Scottish distillery wants to bottle whisky in aluminum, not glass
Scotland’s smallest whisky distillery also hopes to be one of the most innovative in time for its first batch’s debut. But with only around two years until Sterling Distillery’s inaugural…
Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the MoonÂ
4 Min Read Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon Jaclyn Kagey trains in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, where astronauts and flight controllers rehearse spacewalk procedures in a simulated…
British soldier’s long-lost memoir rediscovered in Cleveland
A long-lost second memoir penned by a famed 19th-century British soldier named Shadlock Byfield resurfaced in a rather unexpected place—Cleveland, Ohio. As explained in a study recently published in the…
Veronika the Cow shocks scientists by using a tool
The smart animal club continues to add new members, and the newest might surprise you. A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses…
Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach full size
Tyrannosaurus rex is arguably the world’s most famous dinosaur, yet paleontologists are still learning more about this giant “tyrant lizard king.” T. rex roamed the western United States during the…
Female mice often have multiple sexual partners—for survival
If a female house mouse mates with multiple male house mice, her litter could have multiple fathers. Polyandry, as this mating practice is called, is common for various species. Yet…
What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?
This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it.…