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The Sierra Space Dream Chaser winged spacecraft is seen stacked atop its Shooting Star cargo module on the vibration table at NASA’s Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, while undergoing testing to simulate launch and re-entry conditions. NASA In 2016,…
NASA/Kim Shiflett A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 24, 2025, carrying three missions that will investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the…
Captured on Aug. 21, this image from NISAR’s L-band radar shows Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Green indicates forest; magenta represents hard or regular surfaces, like bare ground and buildings. The magenta area on the island’s northeast end is the town…
Many factors can shape how someone views abortion—gender, age and education, to name a few. Around the world, however, religious belief is the most powerful predictor that someone will disapprove, as I document in my 2025 book, “Fetal Positions.” Faith…
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Youth protesters in Nepal are in the global spotlight for their angry response to the government’s sweeping social media ban in an apparent attempt to silence their dissent. The government’s actions ignited mass protests—led largely by Gen Z, a cohort…
In the months leading up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a team of researchers at MIT CSAIL, MIT Sloan, MIT LIDS, set out to answer a question no one had fully explored: how do large language models (LLMs) respond…
The names of human ancestors are now on an asteroid map.
Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he’d devote 55 minutes to understanding it and only five minutes to crafting a solution. Einstein believed that the most difficult aspect of…
NASA astronaut Chris Williams poses for an official portrait at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA NASA will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 1, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston…