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Mesmerizing NASA time-lapse reveals Mars’s craters, polar ice caps and deserts

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its way to a metal-rich asteroid beyond Mars—and it’s enjoying the scenic route. In a flyby maneuver earlier this year, Psyche used the planet’s gravity.

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Experimental immune therapy shows promise against deadly childhood brain cancer

Brain and spinal cord tumors are the deadliest childhood cancers, and treatments for the most aggressive forms often leave families with few options. Now an experimental immune-cell therapy has cleared.

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Why are the steel beams inside a Manhattan skyscraper buckling? Experts explain

The evacuation of a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan and the surrounding area was ordered on Tuesday after the building showed signs of potential collapse that may have been caused by.

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NASA announces Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Firefly to build lunar landers for a future moon base

NASA is ramping up its efforts to establish a sustained human presence on the moon—including potentially shifting resources away from its efforts to explore Mars. On Tuesday, the space agency.

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How underappreciated mathematician Emmy Noether helped prove physics’ most fundamental theories

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that’s delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Physicists Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein.

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Proposed White House regulations could kill 5,000 clinical trials, analysis finds

Nearly 5,000 clinical trials, including 1,000 cancer treatment tests, face termination under proposed federal regulations, a new analysis by science advocacy group Stand Up for Science finds. The potential cuts.

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How the new FDA-approved ingredient bemotrizinol enhances sunscreen protection

The U.S. is finally getting a new, better sunscreen ingredient. Today the Food and Drug Administration added bemotrizinol, an effective chemical filter that’s been used in sunscreens made in Asia.

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U.S. science must innovate or die, National Academy of Sciences president says

The past year has been “filled with turmoil” in science policy, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) president Marcia McNutt said on Tuesday during the annual State of the Science address.

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Anthropic asks religious thinkers to help shape Claude as pope warns about AI

In late March around 15 religious thinkers met with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to discuss one of the strangest and most consequential questions now facing the AI industry: How.

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Summerlike heat is breaking records in the East. Here’s why

May 19, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Summerlike heat is breaking records in the East. Here’s why A Bermuda High parked over the western Atlantic is.

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