Meet Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA Astronauts Riding on Boeing’s Starliner
For Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the wait for this trip on the Boeing Starliner has been longer than they…
Live Updates: NASA Astronauts Prepare for 1st Launch on Boeing’s Starliner
June 1, 2024, 6:59 a.m. ETNASA astronauts will attempt once again Saturday afternoon to launch to orbit in a spacecraft…
Alzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds
New research shows that people who develop dementia often begin falling behind on bills years earlier.Long before people develop dementia,…
Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant
Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of…
From 700 A.D., a Pre-Viking Vessel Rises into View
On the Norwegian island of Leka, archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known ship burial in Scandinavia.For hundreds of years, Norwegians…
PTSD Has Surged Among College Students
The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students rose to 7.5 percent in 2022, more than double the rate…
Unconventional Sex Let Anglerfish Conquer the Deep Ocean
How did the ghoulish creatures known as anglerfish pull off the evolutionary feat that let them essentially take over the…
Richard Ellis, ‘Poet Laureate’ of Deep-Sea Creatures, Dies at 86
His prodigious paintings of whales and his books about sharks, giant squid and tuna were acclaimed for melding science with…
Apex, the Largest Stegosaurus Fossil Ever Found, Heads to Auction
In May 2022, Jason Cooper, a commercial paleontologist, went for a walk around his property near the aptly named Colorado…
Ancient Skull With Brain Cancer Preserves Clues to Egyptian Medicine
Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to…