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September 20, 2025

In a win for science, NASA told to use House budget as shutdown looms

The House budget still cuts science at NASA, but not as deeply as the White House sought. ...

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September 19, 2025

Kenya’s Turkana people genetically adapted to live in harsh environment, study suggests

Research which began with conversations round a campfire and went on to examine 7m gene variants shows how people survive with little water and a...

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September 19, 2025

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs. ...

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September 19, 2025

Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report

Things have changed since 2009: We're more certain about the problems. ...

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September 19, 2025

Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project

In nuclear era, it has proven cheaper to build offensive weapons than play defense. ...

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September 18, 2025

You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca. ...

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September 17, 2025

A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled

The problem arose early Tuesday when the spacecraft's main engine shut down earlier than expected. ...

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September 16, 2025

Northrop Grumman’s new spacecraft is a real chonker

"We're excited that Northrop is ready to deliver this incredibly beneficial increase in capacity." ...

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September 15, 2025

Get into the cockpit as new crop of “Top Gun” pilots get their wings

NatGeo's new documentary series, Top Guns: The Next Generation, shows the sweat behind the spectacle. ...

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September 14, 2025

Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

North Korea test-fired a powerful new solid rocket motor for its next-generation ICBM. ...

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September 13, 2025

The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”

Push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation; experts say strategy is misplaced. ...

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September 13, 2025

Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report

Meanwhile, Congress is trying to keep serious scientists from weighing in. ...

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