From decades-long studies of humble grasses, new clues to climate resistance
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This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to…
Scientists discover marsupial species thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years: ‘Remarkable’
Don’t tell researchers in Western New Guinea that lightning doesn’t strike twice. In an astonishing discovery, scientists there…
What are the health impacts of sea-level rise, and who should pay? | Health
In November in Solomon Islands, the former Tongan health minister Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala stood outside the main…
‘We all pretty much broke down right there’: Inside the Artemis 2 astronauts’ emotional moment near the moon
Just after they broke a 56-year-old spaceflight record, the Artemis 2 astronauts shared a powerful moment that deepened…
Drive to feed air-dropped rabies vaccines to foxes in the wild
A campaign to inoculate wild foxes against rabies through air-dropped, vaccine-laced baits will start at the end of…
‘The danger and value of water are in my blood’: how rain fences are making Dutch homes more climate resilient | Flooding
Good fences make good neighbours – but rain fences could make even better ones. That is the hope…
Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will “launch in…
“That’s never going to heal.” A lion suffers a broken leg in Botswana. Will he be able to survive?
In Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a team of wildlife filmmakers have been tracking a group of big cats for…
Would you go to the moon? Board an alien spacecraft? What nearly 80 years of polls say about US attitudes on space
Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high. In an Ipsos poll conducted last week just after the…
TV tonight: David Attenborough’s sparkling new series before he turns 100 | Television & radio
Secret Garden 6pm, BBC One While David Attenborough made his name hanging out with gorillas in Rwanda, amazing…
EPA and HHS will study microplastics and pharmaceuticals in water
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin…