The possibilities for dark matter have just shrunk — by a lot
The LZ dark matter experiment has ruled out weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, with a wide range of properties.
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Boeing Starliner will return from space without a crew, NASA announces in long-awaited decision
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will not return to Earth on the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft. Instead, NASA will bring them home in February 2025 aboard a SpaceX vehicle, while Starliner falls to Earth uncrewed.
‘Who are we to say they shouldn’t exist?’: Dr. Neal Baer on the threat of CRISPR-driven eugenics
Dr. Neal Baer discusses a new book about the incredible promise and potential pitfalls of CRISPR gene-editing technology.
‘Enhancing’ future generations with CRISPR is a road to a ‘new eugenics,’ says ethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
“Eugenics seeks to improve by eliminating the characteristics considered at a particular time and place to be disadvantages and to maximize those considered normal.”
Mantle waves buoy continents upward and bedeck them with diamonds
A phenomenon occurring deep underground may explain how vast plateaus form far away from tectonic plate boundaries.
Extreme heat and rain help send dengue cases skyrocketing
As parts of the U.S. sizzle and others flood, Extreme Climate Update looks at the perfect storm this creates for mosquitoes and the diseases they carry.
‘Unbreakable’ quantum communication closer to reality thanks to new, exceptionally bright photons
Scientists build a new light source for quantum communications by combining existing technologies together to create a stronger and more robust quantum signal.
The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why this species died out
Four thousand years ago, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath. But the reason for that may not be what many scientists had long suspected. The last of this species lived on Wrangel Island. That’s off the coast…
Scientists Say: Cosmic rays
Cosmic rays (noun, “KOZ-mick rayz”) Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that zoom through the cosmos. Most of these particles are protons. Others are proton-neutron clusters, or atomic nuclei. They race through space at nearly the speed of light and rain…
Polar Ignite 3 Titanium review
The Polar Ignite 3 Titanium offers a stylish upgrade to the mildly-received Polar Ignite 3, but does this fitness tracker deliver more than just good looks?
