On April 4th, 2026 with 80 comments
The Artemis II crew has passed 100,000 miles from Earth and is now on a "free-return" path around the moon after a successful "translunar" injection burn....
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On March 28th, 2026 with 55 comments
UK startup Pulsar Fusion says it has achieved the first plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket engine prototype -- a huge step for space travel that...
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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 March 21st, 2026 with 24 comments
"Juicier steaks could soon be served up after barley was given the go-ahead to become Britain's first gene-edited crop," reports the Telegraph:
In an effort to...
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On March 14th, 2026 with 49 comments
Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of...
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On March 10th, 2026 with 255 comments
Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies -- which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subjects. "After...
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On March 8th, 2026 with 30 comments
"A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation," reports the BBC, "on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km)...
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On February 6th, 2026 with 95 comments
German newspaper Bild reported in January that some ski jumpers have been injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid ahead of the Milan Cortina Winter...
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On January 27th, 2026 with 69 comments
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday set their symbolic Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight -- the closest the timepiece has ever been to...
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On January 23rd, 2026 with 307 comments
The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday, making good on an executive order that President Trump issued on his first...
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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 14th, 2026 with 75 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Global temperatures soared in 2025, but a NASA statement published Wednesday alongside its latest benchmark annual report...
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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 December 31st, 2025 with 96 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the...
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On December 29th, 2025 with 52 comments
Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakthrough supporters hope will be a...
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On December 24th, 2025 with 43 comments
Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space programme and a joint Russian-Chinese research station, as...
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On December 4th, 2025 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Almost three in 10 GPs in the UK are using AI tools such as ChatGPT in consultations with patients, even...
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On November 28th, 2025 with 89 comments
A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has reconstructed the climate conditions of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization between...
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On November 19th, 2025 with 297 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Federal health officials have linked two massive US measles outbreaks, confirming that the country is about two months...
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On November 11th, 2025 with 10 comments
The UK and China today signed a new bilateral agreement on scientific collaboration [non-paywalled source], narrowing the scope of their partnership to exclude...
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On October 24th, 2025 with 20 comments
A study involving 641 participants across 10 European countries found pesticides in every silicone wristband worn for one week. Researchers at Radboud...
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On October 20th, 2025 with 75 comments
A recent article in Noema magazines explores the issues in "editing nature to fix our failures."
"It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor...
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On October 11th, 2025 with 13 comments
Off the southwest cost of Italy, a remotely operated submarine made "a significant and rare discovery," reports the Independent — a vast white coral reef...
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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 September 29th, 2025 with 32 comments
Researchers in Texas confirmed the first documented wild hybrid between a blue jay and a green jay -- a rare pairing that is likely a result of climate change...
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On September 13th, 2025 with 146 comments
Surgeons in London report a surge in severe e-bike-related injuries, putting major strain on NHS trauma units. The BBC mentions a couple e-bike accidents...
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On September 10th, 2025 with 49 comments
Dozens of polar scientists have warned that geoengineering schemes to manipulate the Arctic and Antarctic are dangerous, impractical, and risk distracting from...
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On September 9th, 2025 with 215 comments
The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress shows U.S. high school seniors' math and reading scores at their lowest in decades, with nearly half...
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On September 8th, 2025 with 159 comments
alternative_right shares a report from The Guardian: It has been estimated that during the height of the coronavirus pandemic 129bn disposable face masks,...
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On September 2nd, 2025 with 133 comments
A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors...
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