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NASA/James Blair NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class greets the crowd in this Sept. 22, 2025, image. The group was introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States. The class now will…
If you’ve always wanted to learn a new language, don’t let age put you off. People aged over 60 can be independent and flexible in how they learn a language—and successful, too.
Final tests of NASA’s laser beam communication technology offer a promising new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space, including future missions to Mars.
If you asked a multilingual friend which language they find more emotional, the answer would usually be their mother tongue—the one they used while growing up and probably still use at home. This does not mean they are incapable of…
A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) reveals that, over 170 years of economic history, the transformation of U.S. cities follows a surprisingly stable rule: while cities evolve and diversify, they on average maintain a constant level…
The oldest workshop for making shell jewelry has been unearthed at the Paleolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire, Charente-Maritime. Dating back at least 42,000 years and accompanied by red and yellow pigments, this unique assemblage in Western Europe has…
Algorithm-based digital platforms like Uber Eats have revolutionized the food delivery industry over the past decade. But the surcharge for consumer convenience has its own cost, according to new research published in the Journal of Canadian Labour Studies.
BackgroundThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has reviewed flight, ground test, and published data on ultraviolet-induced degradation of silicone based thermal control coatings. Analysis has shown, for at least one silicone coating, that bake-out plays an important role in…
See the crescent moon shine with Mars at sunset on Sept. 24.
A discovery by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Shandong University—together with an international team of scientists working in China, Japan and South Korea—sheds new light on the historical use and domestication of the adzuki bean across East…