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SLIM spacecraft illustrationJAXA Japan's Smart Lander for Lunar Exploration (SLIM) has landed on the moon. Although the spacecraft is not operating perfectly, the successful landing follows…
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Japan claimed its stake among space powers on Friday with the successful landing of its SLIM spacecraft on the moon’s surface. The SLIM lander, launched in…
Hemophilia affects the blood's ability to clotscience photo library People with mild hemophilia (a condition that reduces blood clotting) appear to live slightly longer than people…
Gate of Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite civilization Arman Gunes/Shutterstock Simulations suggest that the collapse of several Late Bronze Age Mediterranean civilizations may have…
A mother manatee (pictured above) swims up to a cave diver in a flooded cave in Quintana Roo, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Klaus ThiemannThey captured amazing photos…
Nighttime brain biochemical changes allow us to explore our creative selves Golodenkov/Shutterstock can not sleepannabell abbsJohn Murray Press (UK, on sale). GP Putnam's Sons (USA, February…
Japanese macaques with various physical disabilities and disabilities are kept free-range at the Awajishima Monkey Center.set This is an excerpt from Our Human Story, a newsletter…
People with Parkinson's disease often have tremors and balance problems, which can lead to falls.Roberto G. Libran/Moment RF/Getty Images Shoes that beep when someone strides can…
dinosaur Dinosaurs may have been big and scary, but they weren’t lumbering beasts of prey. The more we learn about them, the more we realize how…
Holly is a staff writer for BBC Science Focus, responsible for our popular Q&A section. She holds an MSc (Special Award) in Earth Sciences (Space and…
NASA/ESA/CSA Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a small, active galaxy within GN-z11, an extremely bright galaxy that existed just 420 million years…
A new genus and species of a large wind dragon that lived about 218 million years ago has been described from a large portion of its…
TOKYO — Japan will attempt a precision landing on Friday, aiming to become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon. This would be…
The trip has cost each of the three countries more than $55 million, which is the approximate cost per person for the trip. This is the…
Launch of the Peregrine Lunar Module on a Vulcan rocket on January 8thAPFootage / Alamy Stock Photo The mission of the Hayabusa lander is over. The…
After more than a week in space, the doomed lunar lander met a violent end Thursday as it burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, ending its mission.A…
Christina Koch has a job that kids dream about. Starting in 2019, on her first mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut She spent…
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive starwww.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg3005 Some 40,000 light-years away, a strange object could be either the heaviest neutron star or…
Artist's thoughts on SLIM after landing on the moon JAXA Japan is preparing for its first moon landing. The Smart Lunar Survey Lander (SLIM) is scheduled…
Masculinity under threat Research procedures in psychology can be innovative and complex, especially in the United States. Research called “”Investigating the impact of threatened masculinity on…
Huge deposits near Mars' equator may be made of water icePaopano / Alamy Stock Photo There may be a huge sheet of ice hidden at Mars'…
It is unclear which components of multivitamins are involved in improving cognitive function.Asia Vision/Getty Images Studies have shown that taking a daily multivitamin slows the rate…
Robots that can grow around trees and rocks like vines could be used to construct buildings or measure pollution in hard-to-reach natural environments. Vine-like robots are…
In 2003, those of us deeply involved in cervical cancer prevention heard startling news. The results of a four-year, placebo-controlled trial of a prototype vaccine against…
The first members of our species to reach China may have entered this region from the north Esteban de Armas / Alamy Modern humans lived in…
Artist’s rendition of DARPA’s X-65 experimental vehicleDARPA The U.S. military is developing aircraft that can fly without the mechanical control surfaces such as ailerons, elevators, and…
Fittingly, science has different ways of thinking about the multiverseEsch Collection/Getty Images The charm of the multiversepaul halpernBasic Books (US, on sale; UK, February 8th) In…
The image on the right is the latest and best image of a black hole. EHT collaboration Thanks to an update to the world’s first black…
The distribution of ions at the air-water interface plays a decisive role in many natural processes. Some studies suggest that large ions tend to exhibit interfacial…
In bottom trawling, a weighted net is dragged across the ocean floor.NarisaFotoSS/Shutterstock Bottom trawling releases about 340 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each…
used by astronomers CSIRO's Australian Telescope Compact Array captured the most detailed radio images ever seen of the 47-member Tukanae star cluster, the second brightest globular…
NASA’s Stardust mission returned rocky material from the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2 (pronounced “Wild-2”) to Earth on January 15, 2006. Comet Wild 2 contains volatile…
Paleontologists from the CSIC National Museum of Natural History have identified a new genus and species of medium-sized cat from a partial jaw found in the…
According to a new study, Greenland’s ice sheet has lost approximately 1,965 square miles to glacier retreat since 1985, which is about the same area as…
Printed circuit board for “thermodynamic computer” normal computing A first-of-its-kind computer can use random “noise” inherent in our world to perform calculations. It is built using…
looking at viruses under a microscope Kokada/Getty Images What is disease X? Do not panic! Disease X doesn’t exist yet, but it might someday. Disease The…
Robot dodecahedron mounted on a submersible (circled area) brennan phillips The robotic dodecahedron can capture fragile deep-sea animals, collect tissue samples, and build three-dimensional scans of…
Over the past few decades, both men and women have benefited from improvements in medical care.ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Women have historically lived longer than men, but…
Tardigrade observed using a fluorescence microscope.Some organs are highlighted with fluorescent markers Smythers et al/PLoS ONE (CC-BY 4.0) Tardigrades are known for their ability to withstand…
