British Man Died of Rare Blood Syndrome Linked to AstraZeneca’s Vaccine
A 32-year-old psychologist in Britain developed blood clots and died 10 days after he took his first dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, a report released...
Elephant Seals Take Power Naps During Deep Ocean Dives
It long seemed as though African elephants were the champions of the all-nighter. They can get by on about two hours of sleep. Other mammals...
NOAA Forecasters See a Respite for California
The News Weather forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued their latest outlook for the United States, and there’s at least...
Biden Plans to Pick Monica Bertagnolli to Lead National Institutes of Health
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to nominate Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, an oncologist who has run the National Cancer Institute for the past six months...
What Is a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly?
It doesn’t take a degree in aerospace engineering to know that, ideally, rockets aren’t supposed to blow up. So to those who aren’t engineers, the...
How Elon Musk’s Starship Timeline Has Changed Over Seven Years
As big as Starship is, it was originally going to be bigger. In 2016, Elon Musk was dropping hints of a giant new spacecraft that...
Starship Has Deep Financial and Symbolic Importance to Elon Musk
Elon Musk has called it the “holy grail” for space technology. Starship, a new SpaceX rocket system that launched for the first time on Thursday,...
Thousands Flock to See a Rare Total Solar Eclipse in Australia
For the tens of thousands of astrophotographers, eclipse chasers and cosmically minded tourists contemplating the best site from which to view Thursday’s total solar eclipse,...
Biden Pledges $500 Million to Stop Deforestation in Brazil
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday pledged $500 million to fight deforestation in Brazil and more than $1 billion to help developing countries transition away...
Salamander Dads Are Turning Into Cannibals, Threatening Species Survival
The hellbender salamander has been called a lot of things. Snot otter. Mud devil. Old lasagna sides. And now, perhaps: baby-eating cannibal, according to new...
April 20: SpaceX may launch its Starship moon and Mars rocket to space for the first time.
Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX are riding on Starship and Super Heavy, a fully reusable rocket and booster that when stacked are...
Your Hair Is Going Gray. This Glitch May Explain Why.
Many of the signs of aging are invisible, slow, and subtle — changes in cell division capacity, cardiac output and kidney function don’t exactly show...
A Giant New Telescope Is Taking Shape in Chile’s Atacama Desert
LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, Chile — To walk among the observatory domes of the Atacama Desert is to brush your hair with the stars. The Atacama,...
Generic Abortion Pill Maker GenBioPro Sues FDA to Protect Mifepristone
The company that makes a majority of the abortion pill mifepristone sold in the United States sued the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, a...