TAMPA, Fla. — Telesat is preparing to deploy a couple of Lightspeed pathfinders in December 2026, with 96 satellites for an initial global broadband service from low Earth orbit (LEO) set to launch the following year to offset mounting…
A multistate Listeria monocytogenes outbreak has turned an easy dinner staple into a public health emergency. Six people have died and 25 have been hospitalized after eating contaminated pre-packaged pasta meals sold at major grocery stores like…
The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence may raise the cost-effectiveness threshold for the first time in 26 years. This threshold represents the maximum amount that a healthcare system is willing to pay for an additional unit…
Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they’re able to fill such disparate niches because molecular machinery can cut out and stitch together different segments of those…
Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious “stuff,” obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force of nature — but even if not, it certainly…
Barley is a widely grown cereal crop that is used chiefly for livestock feed, food, and malting to produce alcoholic beverages such as beer and whiskey. Unfortunately, both the yield and quality of the crop can be lowered by various fungal diseases.
