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UW researchers and Florida middle school students form unusual bond over cosmic kidney stones
A collaboration between this Florida middle school robotics team and the University of Washington is potentially “life changing,” according to a science teacher at the school. (Pahokee Middle School Photo)
Eight students from a low-income sugarcane t...
Firefly Aerospace gets a Florida launch site
An architectural rendering shows Firefly Aerospace’s future rocket production facility at Exploration Park on Florida’s Space Coast. (Firefly Aerospace Illustration)
, a Texas-based launch venture that was lifted out of bankruptcy, says it’s struck a...
Study: With Twitter, race of the messenger matters
(University of Kansas) University of Kansas journalism researchers showed real tweets about the NFL anthem protests to a group of millennials. Eye tracking software found they viewed tweets from white males the longest, but self-reported data showed...
Four New DNA Letters Double Life's Alphabet
Synthetic DNA seems to behave like the natural variety, suggesting that a broader swathe of chemicals could support life than the four that evolved on Earth-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
NASA, SpaceX and a test dummy are ready for Dragon 2’s first trip to space station
An artist’s conception shows a Crew Dragon docking with the International Space Station. (SpaceX / NASA Illustration)
NASA of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station in a week, setting the stage for crewed missions later thi...
Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to 'maybe.'
(Princeton University) Princeton geoscientists Blair Schoene and Gerta Keller led an international team of researchers who have assembled the first high-resolution timeline for the massive eruptions in India's Deccan Traps, determining that the...
Study explores the role of citrus peel in reducing gut inflammation
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Hang Xiao, Clydesdale Scholar of Food Science, has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how substances produced in t...
Ultimate Ultima: New Horizons team shares sharpest view of space snowman
The most detailed images of a Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule — obtained just minutes before the spacecraft’s closest approach — have a resolution of about 110 feet per pixel. This processed, composite picture combines nine indi...
Party-Drug-Turned-Antidepressant Approaches Approval
Johnson & Johnson has submitted its esketamine for regulatory approval, but researchers still don't understand how the fast-acting antidepressant lifts moods-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A quantum magnet with a topological twist
(Princeton University) Researchers probed a special kind of magnet containing atoms arranged in a pattern called a kagome lattice, which takes its name from a Japanese basket. They found that electrons in this material exhibit exotic behaviors that c...