2025-08-24

SpaceX is about to launch Starship for its 10th test flight

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is scheduled to lift off from the company's Texas launch site as soon as this evening for its 10th flight. The launch window opens at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT). [...]

2025-08-24

What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness. [...]

2025-08-24

The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. [...]

2025-08-23

Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave

In March 2025 the Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun, but lasting only milliseconds. [...]

2025-08-23

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

Words you'll never speak still cause activity in the brain's speech centers. [...]

2025-08-23

Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

This deadly bacteria, which hits low-income people the hardest, was once an “only in New York” problem. Extreme heat is now increasing its prevalence. [...]

2025-08-23

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater. [...]

2025-08-22

Scientists Find a New Moon Orbiting Uranus

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years. [...]

2025-08-22

Scientists are building cyborg jellyfish to explore ocean depths

"There's really something special about the way moon jellies swim." [...]