Listen to this audio excerpt from Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager:
During NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon, the astronauts inside the Orion spacecraft…
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People, not glaciers, transported rocks to Stonehenge, study confirms
Humans — not glaciers — transported Stonehenge’s megaliths across Great Britain to their current location in southern England, a new study confirms.
Scientists have believed for decades that the 5,000-year-old monument’s iconic stones came…
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Octopus antioxidant shields perovskite solar cells from decay
Perovskite solar cells degrade rapidly when superoxide radicals, generated from oxygen trapped within the device, attack the absorber layer. A thin interlayer of taurine, a sulfur-containing amino acid abundant in octopus and squid, intercepts…
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What Makes This Weekend’s Blizzard So Brutal
This weekend, more than half of the United States—at least 170 million people—is bracing for a winter storm set to span 2,000 miles. On the northern front of the system, from Oklahoma to Massachusetts, people could face up to a foot of snow,…
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China’s humanoid robot GrowHR floats, swims, flies, and walks on water
Researchers in China have unveiled a soft humanoid robot that can shapeshift, float, swim, fly, and even walk on water, bringing sci-fi visions like Baymax closer to reality.
Inspired by human bone traits, GrowHR’s linked structures can…
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Red, Green Light Show – NASA
A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which looks north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the…
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The next generation of disinformation: AI swarms can threaten democracy by manufacturing fake public consensus
An international research team involving Konstanz scientist David Garcia warns that the next generation of influence operations may not look like obvious “copy-paste bots,” but like coordinated communities: fleets of AI-driven personas that can…
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Echoes Of Exploration
Keith’s note: Last week I posted a quick Photoshop (No A.I.) montage on social media using NASA pics of Artemis II / Apollo 8 crews. Space nerds hammered me online because Apollo 8 orbited the Moon and Artemis II won’t. Duh. They miss the…
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The Penguins That Thrive—and the Ones Left Behind—as Antarctica Warms
A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way among many that climate change is transforming life at the bottom of the world
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Tiny molecules called tRNA halves may contribute to prostate cancer cell growth
Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer in men. A new study from Thomas Jefferson University uncovered a new potential therapeutic target in tiny molecules called tRNA halves.
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