Blue Origin protests NASA choice of SpaceX to land astronauts on Moon

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, on Monday filed a protest…

Scientists: Up to 25,000 barrels at DDT dump site in Pacific

Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels…

Wall of sand engulfs Chinese town

A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China’s Gansu province…

Probing deep space with Interstellar

When the four-decades-old Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and 2018,…

More patrols, fewer boaters for SpaceX splashdown Wednesday

The astronauts flying SpaceX back to Earth this week urged boaters to stay safe by staying…

Cleaner water through corn

Corn is America’s top agricultural crop, and also one of its most wasteful. About half the…

Researcher questions whether powered flight appeared on non-avialan dinosaurs

Powered flight in animals—that uses flapping wings to generate thrus—is a very energetically demanding mode of…

Fooling fusion fuel: How to discipline unruly plasma

The process designed to harvest on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars…

Structural study gives insight into how plants keep their 'mouths' shut

Stomata, formed by a pair of kidney-shaped guard cells, are tiny pores in leaves. They act…

First village-level mapping of childhood undernutrition in India reveals local disparities

The risk of childhood undernutrition varies widely among villages in India, according to new research led…