Science

We’ve entered a forever war with bird flu
Avian influenza is “evolving in ways we haven’t seen before,” says Martha Nelson, a computational biologist and staff scientist researching ...

After 9 Months in Space, Stranded NASA Astronauts Return Home
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the US astronauts stranded for nine months on the International Space Station, finally made it ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams return on SpaceX ship
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams and two other astronauts descend in the Crew Dragon spacecraft to their splashdown, following their ...

NASA astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space – National
Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home ...

Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win the A.M. Turing Award, asserted ...

The head of a Biden program that could help rural broadband has left
1. Delays in getting broadband to the people. Some states are on the 1 yard line. A bunch are on ...

‘Blood moon’: Photos capture year’s 1st total lunar eclipse – National
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Stargazers around the world were treated to the year’s first total lunar ...

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI
China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. ...

Solar and wind beat coal in the US for the first time
In a first for the US, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal last year, according to a new ...