June 6, 2025
US President Donald Trump last week laid out one of the biggest challenges ever for NASA — to land the first humans on Mars.But his detailed budget request for the fiscal
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.About 317 billion times per year members of the U.S. public check the weather on their phones, TVs or some other source.
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At an addiction conference in Nashville, Tenn., in late April, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., spoke about his own experience with drug use. “Addiction is
No one has launched a nuclear weapon in war since 1945, when U.S. president Harry S. Truman bombed Japan. Support for that decision—the only use of atomic arms in a conflict—has
Late last week the Trump Administration released its detailed budget request for fiscal year 2026 —a request that, if enacted, would be the equivalent of carpet-bombing the national scientific enterprise.“This is
In 2012 NASA stealthily slipped a morgue into orbit.No press release. No fanfare. Just a sealed, soft-sided pouch tucked in a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) alongside freeze-dried