NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, bu [...]

The Earth Has a Growing Weak Spot in Its Magnetic Field: Here's What That Means

Science has known about the weak spot for over half a century, but it's now getting bigger. [...]

The world’s smallest pacemaker is injectable and powered by light

Engineers at Northwestern University have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker. It’s so small, as a matter of fact, that it fits inside the tip of a syringe. This means that it’s injectable, [...]

Meta teases ‘future headsets’ despite VR troubles, and an AI upgrade straight from science fiction

Maybe VR isn’t dead, as Meta teases ‘future headsets’ and video you can ‘jump into’. [...]

As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It

The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States. [...]

The Trump budget cuts that could hurt the economy for a long time

President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the scientific community with his proposed budget that would slash federal spending on research and development by an unprecedented 23% — or $163 billi [...]

The USDA will republish climate change information online following farmer lawsuit

In the early days of President Donald Trump's second administration, federal agencies including the US Department of Agriculture were ordered to remove information about climate change from their [...]

FDA approves at-home pap smear alternative device for cervical cancer screening

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new device called the Teal Wand, which its creator describes as an "at-home vaginal sample self-collection device for cervical cancer screening.&qu [...]

RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals "corrupt." [...]