- — NASA’s first medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown
- This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons.
- — A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces
- Shadrack Byfield lost his left arm in the War of 1812; his life sheds light on post-war re-integration.
- — Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach
- Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly.
- — EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines
- A new rule aims to speed up and streamline the permitting process.
- — EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air
- New language criticizes “uncertainties” in longstanding EPA practice.
- — Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths
- Scientists analyzed carbonate deposits from baths, aqueduct to learn more about city's changing water supply.
- — NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope
- "It was not recognized how serious a problem that is until... about 2017 or 2018."
- — That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda
- Footage of the 2024 discovery appears in NatGeo's new documentary series Pole to Pole with Will Smith.
- — The oceans just keep getting hotter
- For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025.
- — These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found
- Hunter-gatherers probably derived the poison from the milky bulb extract of a Boophone disticha plant.
- — NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station
- "The crew is highly trained, and they came to the aid of their colleague right away."
- — These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words
- “Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children.”
- — Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty
- US also pulling out of pacts promoting development, democracy, and human rights.
- — NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station
- "The matter involved a single crew member who is stable," NASA said in a statement.
- — Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data
- Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers.
- — New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry
- Rather than being used as a storage material, the sulfur gives up electrons.
- — We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
- A recent study suggests that North Africa may be a key place to look.
- — Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026
- A lot could happen in space this year, but let's get real about what actually will.
- — Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs
- The Trump admin can't arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate.
- — Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze
- Trump administration had suspended Danish group’s work on major wind farm off coast of Rhode Island.
- — Under anti-vaccine RFK Jr., CDC slashes childhood vaccine schedule
- The changes are modeled after a small country with universal health care.
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