Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens. [...]

A Rare Blood Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse Make an Appearance on Sunday

Thanks to this livestream, North and South America can join the beauty of watching the eclipse party in real time. [...]

A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit

The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.” [...]

Methane Pollution Has Cheap, Effective Solutions That Aren’t Being Used

The International Energy Agency estimates that 70 percent of the fossil fuel sector’s methane emissions could be cut with existing technologies—many of which would save polluters money. [...]

The US Is In For Another Bad Year of Measles Cases

A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed. [...]

Microsoft just launched an AI that discovered a new chemical in 200 hours instead of years

Microsoft launches Discovery platform that uses agentic AI to compress years of scientific research into days, transforming R&D across pharmaceuticals, materials science, and semiconductor industr [...]

MasterClass deal: Save 40 percent on an annual subscription

MasterClass is a good platform to learn a new skill and transfer that doom-scrolling energy into something more productive — and probably more fun, too. Now, you can sign up for MasterClass at a dis [...]

"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans

The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. [...]

Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails

Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen. [...]