SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures

The next Starship launch may come as soon as next week. A recent test of its Raptor engines suggests SpaceX has resolved the issues that plagued its recent flights. [...]

No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn't entirely clear why that layer forms. [...]

Honda shows off three new EVs in Tokyo, but its US plans are getting more tepid

Every two years, the Japan Mobility Show gives us a preview of the future of motoring as envisioned by the major Japanese manufacturers. Sadly, for Honda, the resounding message coming from this year& [...]

Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use an overturned dinghy to hold air underwater. Madness or brilliance? [...]

New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse

Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research." [...]

We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming

The US eliminated measles in 2000, but the disease is once again circulating. [...]

What's next after the Trump administration revokes key finding on climate change?

The EPA is revoking the finding for legal, not scientific reasons [...]

Astronaut Suni Williams Sets New Record on Spacewalk Outside ISS

Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to return to Earth in March after a months-long delay. [...]

Artemis II crew is like just like us, needs help with Microsoft Outlook issues

The four history-making Artemis II crew members are cooped up with each other in a tiny space for 10 days. And yet the most uncomfortable aspect of the mission might be having to deal with not one, bu [...]