A new company called Scribe Therapeutics founded by two former members of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s UC Berkely genetics lab (alongside Doudna herself) launched on Tuesday, debuting a platform designed...
UK-based robotic rover startup Spacebit has booked a second payload delivery to the Moon, aboard the Nova-C lander that Intuitive Machines is planning to send in 2021 as part of...
The ozone hole grew pretty large this year — but that's expected. Researchers from the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service announced Tuesday that the ozone hole — a big...
Eric Holthaus, a climate reporter and meteorologist, wants to remind you that you are born at exactly the right time in history to help reverse the damage we have caused...
On Friday night, while a distracted world read about President Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis, a $23 million space toilet launched into space. This toilet, which astronauts and cosmonauts will test...
Astronomers worked hard to get this galactic glamour shot. "Looking this good isn’t easy," wrote NASA on Friday. "30 different exposures, for a total of nine hours of observation time,...
Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2020! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds....
Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2020! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds....
Trapped-ion quantum computing startup IonQ today announced the launch of its latest quantum computer, which features what IonQ calls “32 perfect qubits with low gate errors.” Using IBM’s preferred quantum...
The chatter going into the first 2020 presidential debate was that climate change wouldn't get much, if any, discussion. But the debate's moderator, Fox News journalist Chris Wallace, threw a...
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