US says Chinese-linked hackers attacked NASA, Senate, and gov’t agencies
US authorities seized two domains allegedly used to target sensitive government networks since 2018.
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FDA approves Rasonque for pancreatic cancer: When it’s available and cost
The FDA approved Rasonque for pancreatic cancer. Here is when the drug will be available, who qualifies and what it costs.
Yale researchers found a new way to tackle ‘forever chemicals’: they make some PFAS molecules roughly twice as large so they separate from water and become easier to destroy
Science News: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are often called “forever chemicals” because their ultra-strong carbon–fluorine bonds make them stubbornly .
In 2002, a NASA intern stole a 600-pound safe containing $21 million in Moon rocks to give his girlfriend, then an online sale led him into an FBI trap
Science News: The Moon has been romanticised for centuries, but few people have ever tried to give someone a piece of it. In 2002, that idea became part of an extra.
Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder
Kids are even more vulnerable to heat stress than adults are as a result of climate change, a new study finds.
What we know — and don’t know — about what caused the Nepal flood wave
Nepal is a hotspot for glacier melting as the planet heats up, but it’s not yet clear exactly what caused the deadly flood.
Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots
Science News: A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical framework to predict how multiple infectious diseases interact and spread through.
3 Years Later, Fukushima’s Ocean Discharge Passes 172,000 Tons
Fukushima water discharges hit 172,700 tons with clean monitoring data, but China's seafood ban and billions in losses show science alone can't rebuild marke...
Your Oura Ring can’t measure what’s going on in your skull
This week’s Optimizer dissects a recent class-action lawsuit against Oura and its claims that Oura duped people with its marketing.
Australia's First Wind Trees Are Spinning and People Are All About It
Two metal trees beside a suburban Perth road are generating electricity every time their leaf-shaped turbines begin to spin. The nine-meter structures are Au...
In 1984, NASA sent 3,301 bees into Space to test how they built honeycomb without gravity; from hitting on walls to building 200cm honeycomb; highlights of 7-day mission
Tech News News: Thousands of honeybees travelled into space aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery in 1984 for an experiment that sounds unusual even today. The space .
In 2017, an MIT class project explored a new kind of aircraft; it has now grown into an $850 million Ohio factory plan for an 8-motor hybrid plane that can take off from an area about the length of a soccer field
Science News: A class project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017 studied a new type of aircraft; now, it has ballooned into a $850 million O.
Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: âIf a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, thenâ¦â
Science News: While a desk covered in books, papers and unfinished notes may be seen as a sign of an untidy mind, the great scientist Albert Einstein had a differen.
Columbia engineers built a pigment-free polymer coating filled with microscopic air pores; under Arizona desert sun, the coated surface stayed about 6°C below ambient air
Science News: As temperatures rise during hot weather, keeping buildings and other structures cool can require large amounts of energy. Air conditioners are a commo.
The human brain usually decays first after death, so how have thousands survived for 12,000 years? Scientists uncover the chemistry behind the mystery
Science News: The human brain is one of the first organs to break down after death, making the discovery of preserved brains at archaeological sites particularly pu.
Scientists found traces of two unknown ancient human lineages hiding in modern DNA; one split from our ancestors about 800,000 years ago, another around 1.8 million years ago
Science News: Modern humans already carry small amounts of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, evidence that our ancestors interbred with other human groups tens of thou.
Nasa abandons $30 million plan to save ageing Swift space telescope after rescue craft malfunctions
Science News: Nasa's ambitious attempt to save its ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has come to an unexpected end after the spacecraft sent to perform the resc.
6,500 years ago, someone drilled a human tooth and wore it as a pendant; archaeologists found it sitting in a Serbian museum collection
Science News: It sat on a museum shelf for nearly twenty years, unseen, mistaken for something far more common. But now a closer look at a tiny, worn tooth is givin.