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In a few years, you might be able to 3-D print right in the palm of your hand. A new 3-D printer that’s mere millimeters in size could offer a new way to produce customizable objects, scientists report June 6 in Light:…

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has always amazed space lovers by revealing the vastness of the universe. Be it capturing distant galaxies located billions of light-years away or recording the lifecycle of stars within our own Milky Way,…

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket is due to blast off for the first time next week, but it will launch into a quickly changing market for heavy space launchers increasingly dominated by SpaceX. HT Image Here are some of the other big…

Keep your eyes on the night sky this summer, scanning for the constellation Corona Borealis, and if you are lucky, you may glimpse what appears to be a new star winking on in the dark. The brightening point of light will not be…

On a banana plantation in rural Australia, a second-generation farming family spreads crushed volcanic rock between rows of ripening fruit. Eight thousand kilometers away, two young men in central India dust the same type of rock…

Secrets of space New data hint that dark energy’s density, commonly thought to remain constant, might vary over time, Emily Conover reported in “3-D map hints at dark energy’s secrets” (SN: 5/4/24 & 5/18/24, p. 6). In…

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the present and future of using artificial intelligence technology in medicine.

The European Space Agency (ESA) satisfies the curiosity of space lovers by sharing intriguing posts that give a glimpse into the world beyond our home planet. One such post shows “first-ever star clusters” from 460 million years after…

Citations S.L. Cox et al. Socio-cultural practices may have affected sex differences in stature in Early Neolithic Europe. Nature Human Behaviour.February 2024. doi:10.1038/s41562-023-01756-w.K. Thompson, F. Portrait and L. Schoonmade.…

Sweet discovery for the wine industry — Science News, June 29, 1974 Pierce’s disease remains a problem for California grape growers.… have identified the cause of the disease. They were able to isolate a small,…

India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests. Such changes have been observed in other rivers in recent times but only far upstream. This…

Do I Know You?Sadie DingfelderLittle, Brown Spark, $32 A friend and I recently stumbled into a conversation about inner monologues. He referred to nearly constant chatter, in his own voice, as if it were normal. My inner…

An ISRO scientist has revealed the starting salary for new recruits at the space agency, as well as the biggest perk of the job in his opinion. A short interview with the unnamed scientist is currently going viral on Instagram. An ISRO…

You may have seen countless sunsets, but have you ever pondered how they appear from the vantage point of space? ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst provided a rare glimpse of this with two breathtaking photos. Despite being shared a few years…

Living among a small band of Neanderthals in what is now eastern Spain was a child, perhaps 6 years old, with Down syndrome, as shown in a remarkable fossil preserving traits in the inner ear anatomy indicative of this serious genetic…

By Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota HT Image Grand Forks, For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world – and indeed he was. Grissom crewed the Liberty Bell 7…

Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath. Living on that island, isolated from other mammoths, could have led to fatal levels of…

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls, researchers describe June 27 in…

Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update our understanding of the evolution and biology of these extinct…

Three public health experts weigh in on the U.S. surgeon general’s ground-breaking call to label shootings a health problem.

Have you noticed the rapid changes in the climate? The pattern of climate is not anymore the same as the traditional pattern. Unexpected monsoon , winters and summers. All of these are the signs that there is a severe shift in the climate…

Warming UpMadeleine OrrBloomsbury Sigma, $28 It’s easy to think of sports as an escape from reality, removed from the glaring problems of our world. Researcher Madeleine Orr shatters that illusion in Warming Up: How Climate…

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the universe’s high-energy neutrinos. Two teams using data from IceCube, the world’s premier neutrino observatory located in Antarctica,…

Something strange is happening at Earth’s center. Decades of earthquake data show that Earth’s inner core has been rotating slower than its mantle and surface since around 2010, researchers report June 12 in Nature. The study…

Bees can detect the scent of lung cancer in lab-grown cells and synthetic breath. One day, bees may be used to screen people’s breath for cancer.

Black holes can’t be formed from pure light. Quantum physics would curb their creation under any foreseeable conditions, a new study suggests. Typically, matter is responsible for black holes. They’re often formed when a star’s…

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain, is closely linked to the…

NASA’s James Webb Telescope has captured jets of gas from newborn stars for the first time. James Webb Telescope was launched in December 2021. A mesmerizing image of this phenomenon was shared on Instagram by the official handle of the…

Bengaluru, Space agency ISRO on Sunday said it has achieved a third consecutive success in the Reusable Launch Vehicle Landing Experiment by demonstrating the autonomous landing capability of the launch vehicle under more challenging…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) accomplished the third landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV LEX-03) named ‘Pushpak’ on Sunday. According to a statement by the space agency, the test was carried out at 07:30…