It’s a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve
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Europe’s first private launch company is learning to embrace failure
The first flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket didn’t last long on Sunday. The booster’s nine engines switched off as the rocket cartwheeled upside-down and
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Poll Finds That 75% of Scientists Are Thinking About Leaving the U.S.
More than 1,600 respondents reflected the chilling effect across research fields caused by the slashing of federal funding for universities and science agencies.
Read moreFBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email
Read moreNASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one of the most significant
Read moreAll-female and able to survive 24,000 years on ice: all hail the resilient rotifer
Tiny aquatic animal can also withstand desiccation, radiation and extreme heat, and reproduces asexually More amazing nominations for invertebrate of the year An animal that
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