NIST Weighs In on the Mystery of the Gravitational Constant
NIST scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational…
Rare pygmy hippo arrives in Israel to launch breeding program
A female pygmy hippopotamus arrived on Wednesday at a zoo in northern Israel as part of an international…
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this new robot knows which trees need water and which don’t
California’s farmers are being asked to do something that sounds almost impossible. Grow the same food with less…
Blue Origin fires up huge New Glenn rocket ahead of its 3rd-ever launch (photo)
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket just took a big step toward its first-ever reflight. Blue Origin conducted a…
US tests spin fuel in 180-million-degree Fahrenheit plasma for reactors
Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at around 100 million degrees…
Iceland Just Got its First Mosquitoes. Scientists Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next
Until recently, Iceland was considered the last Arctic nation without mosquitoes. That changed in October 2025, when insect…
Are we heading for ‘super El Niño’ – and what could we expect? | Climate crisis
There is a high likelihood that the phenomenon known as “El Niño” will emerge this summer – and…
Fantasy RPG ‘Crimson Desert’ lets you stab your way up to space, showcasing a remarkably detailed cosmos
If you follow gaming at all, you’ve likely heard of Crimson Desert by this point. The open-world fantasy…
Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe
A recent cosmological model combines two of the most eccentric ideas in contemporary physics to explain the nature…
Meet the first baby Asian elephant born at the National Zoo in 25 years
CNN’s Dana Bash describes it as “one of the coolest things” she’s ever done. She gets the exclusive…
How plants and beneficial bacteria work together in microgravity
Principal Investigator(s): Norman Lewis, Washington State University Overview: Veg-06 studies how plants and beneficial bacteria work together in…