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A Ph.D. is often treated as the point where scholars become “independent.” Yet, a new study by Hiroshima University shows that achieving independence is far less simple and tidy, unfolding instead as a long, uneven, river-like journey shaped by relationships,…
Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.
As voters are increasingly asked to decide complex health policy questions at the ballot box, new research from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis finds that health care-related ballot measures draw more voters to the polls and…
Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX’s first-ever employee — just raised $500 million to build out the ultra-mobile spacecraft that it believes will transform the space economy.
Is it a doctor’s job to get the best outcomes for their patients or to tell the truth? What happens when these two things are not aligned? These are questions that University of Washington students have to wrangle with in…
Astronomers have finally cracked the mystery behind a strange class of repeating cosmic signals that has baffled scientists for years. Using Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope, researchers traced the bursts to a rare stellar duo in which a dense white dwarf…
A large, nationally representative survey of U.S. adults finds that support for, and willingness to engage in, political violence remained largely stable from mid-2024 to mid-2025, despite a highly contentious national election and ongoing political polarization, according to a study…
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6 Min Read Spacewalking With Scott Wray, Artemis EVA Training Lead Scott Wray conducts an underwater test of NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) spacesuit in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Bill Brassard Scott…
Allen Institute initiative aims to capture earliest cellular changes and identify new drug targets