As launch time approaches for NASA’s first moonshot in more than half a century, anticipation is building for the Artemis II mission, which will send a crew of four astronauts on a nine-and-a-half-day voyage around the moon and back. Here’s how to watch today’s launch — and where it will be visible to skywatchers in…
Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers—have been published in Nature as a collection of three papers alongside a release of five additional preprints. The SCORE program offers new empirical evidence on the reproducibility, robustness, and replicability of research across the social and behavioral sciences,…
Dozens of people with glaucoma-like symptoms have tested positive for a virus that we thought affected only marine life Virginie Vaes/Getty Images A virus that ordinarily affects marine animals has caused glaucoma-like symptoms and even irreversible vision loss in a small but growing group of people in China. This is the first known time that…
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—Launching to the Moon is an all-day undertaking, something the four astronauts waiting to climb aboard NASA’s Artemis II rocket know well. “It is actually a very long day,” said Victor Glover, the pilot on Artemis II. “We wake up about eight hours before launch, and there’s a pretty tight schedule of…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Perhaps you are one of the many Americans who have a small boxy tank balanced precariously on their bathroom sink. Or maybe you’ve seen one at a friend’s house—the appliances known as water flossers, oral irrigators, or often by…
Dangerous weather events typically associated with extreme global warming could become more frequent even under moderate levels of heating, a new study finds. Deadly floods in cities and catastrophic droughts in major crop-producing regions may hit more often than previously thought under a climate scenario where global temperatures stabilize at around 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2…
Not only are the fumes potentially harmful, but certain parts of your 3D printer get hot enough to melt hard plastic. In a worst-case scenario, these parts could malfunction and cause damage to your printer or even start a fire. So, is it ever safe to leave your 3D printer alone while printing? Understanding the…
Energy shocks don’t just raise our energy bills – they can be turning points in how our economy runs. The UK responded to the energy crises of the 1970s by reshaping its energy system and doubling down on extracting its own fossil fuels from the North Sea. Investment poured in and the UK became a…
There’s no excuse for being icliterate any more. It was a long time coming, but, almost 30 years after the web of nerves inside the penis was charted, we’ve finally got a similar 3D map of the nerves within the glans of the clitoris. You can’t see all of the nerve branches of the clitoris…
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, April 1 (Reuters) – NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface before China’s first crewed landing. NASA…
