On March 27th, 2026 with 30 comments
CERN has confirmed it will host an expanded version of Open Research Europe, the EU-backed fee-free open access publishing platform that works to "keep...
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On January 21st, 2026 with 105 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic have transformed millions of lives with easily administered...
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On January 3rd, 2026 with 127 comments
A new sweeping meta-analysis has found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health, challenging a long-held assumption that...
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On October 6th, 2025 with 86 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The heads of UK physics departments say their subject is facing a national crisis as one in four warns...
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On July 19th, 2025 with 12 comments
At Sotheby's Geek Week auction, the largest known Martian meteorite on Earth sold for a record-breaking $5.3 million. The Associated Press reports: The...
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On June 30th, 2025 with 54 comments
Thousands of Norwegians briefly believed they had won massive Eurojackpot prizes after a manual coding error by Norsk Tipping mistakenly multiplied winnings by...
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On June 3rd, 2025 with 183 comments
President Trump's 2026 budget proposes over $1 billion for Mars exploration through a new Commercial Mars Payload Services Program, while simultaneously...
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On April 24th, 2025 with 190 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Oil and gas companies are facing hundreds of lawsuits around the world testing whether they can...
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On February 7th, 2025 with 43 comments
After a $523 million charge on its CST-100 Starliner program in 2024, Boeing's total losses on the commercial crew vehicle now exceed $2 billion -- and there's...
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On November 13th, 2024 with 96 comments
Amazon has discontinued its secretive "Encore" project to develop an at-home fertility tracker, resulting in layoffs for around 100 employees. The project,...
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On October 19th, 2024 with 94 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an op-ed written by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg...
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On July 25th, 2024 with 81 comments
A NASA committee determined that the Chandra X-ray Observatory would have to cease operations under the proposed budget cuts in NASA's 2025 budget. The...
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On July 13th, 2024 with 50 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from DefenseScoop: A group of NATO countries are set to begin implementing a new project aimed at improving the alliance's...
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On May 29th, 2024 with 2 comments
Satellite-to-phones service provider AST SpaceMobile announced a deal with Verizon to provide remote coverage across the United States. "Verizon's deal...
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On January 12th, 2024 with 77 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts...
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On November 28th, 2023 with 10 comments
A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology has developed a prototype cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) microscope...
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On November 14th, 2023 with 22 comments
Japan plans to establish a new 1 trillion yen ($6.6 billion) fund to develop the country's outer space industry. "We believe it is a necessary fund to speed up...
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On July 15th, 2023 with 59 comments
Congress will pour billions more dollars into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its associated architecture, even as NASA science missions remain...
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On June 24th, 2023 with 11 comments
3M will pay $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of drinking water with PFAS, a class of chemicals known as "forever chemicals" that have been...
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On April 1st, 2023 with 61 comments
The scientific community is reeling after NASA gutted funding for a key Venus mission that was "poised to answer some of the biggest questions about the planet...
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On November 20th, 2022 with 82 comments
"Last week's collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is sending aftershocks through the scientific community," writes Science magazine:
An undergraduate...
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On November 22nd, 2021 with 23 comments
A rare manuscript by theoretical physicist Albert Einstein goes under the hammer in Paris on Tuesday, with auctioneers aiming for a stratospheric price tag....
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"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth." -- Milton
