Meet 2025 PN7, Earth’s New Quasi-moon
Just discovered, it’s been orbiting the Sun alongside Earth for decades, and will continue to do so for decades more The post Meet 2025 PN7, Earth’s New Quasi-moon appeared first …
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California on brand-new Falcon 9 rocket
Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just earned its wings. A Falcon 9 with a brand-new first stage lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today (Sept. 2) at …
The deadliest mushroom, the death cap, is still concocting new poisons
The death cap mushroom has been implicated in many people’s deaths, from Roman emperors to modern foragers Shutterstock/Tisha Razumovsky Death cap mushrooms are back in the news. Amanita phalloides has …
Vote by Dutch lawmakers threatens major primate research center
In victory for animal rights activists, research on monkeys would end in 2030
A Mars rock analysis tool proved its mettle on a chance find from Arizona
McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in science …
Why Alzheimer’s attacks the brain’s memory hub first
One of the first parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease is the entorhinal cortex — a region that plays a big role in memory, spatial navigation, and the …
Rapamycin may extend lifespans by protecting against DNA damage
Illustration of the drug rapamycin (red) blocking a protein called mTOR (blue) Science Photo Library/Alamy The drug rapamycin’s anti-ageing effects could at least partly be due to it preventing DNA …
NSF could be moving down the street
Government sets requirements for new space that sound like nearby patent office campus
This lizard can tolerate extreme levels of lead
Cuban brown anoles have the highest blood lead levels of any vertebrate known — three times that of the previous record holder, the Nile crocodile.