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NASA is making significant progress on the Gateway program, with the HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module entering its final phase of outfitting and testing. The module, which will serve as a habitation and research station for…

In a groundbreaking achievement for solar astronomy, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest solar telescope, has unveiled its most powerful camera yet. This newly activated camera, known as the Visible Tunable Filter…

Eight legs really seem to do something to people. Even bring up the subject of spiders and you’ll have some people shuddering, but this writer has stumbled upon something that quite honestly makes spiders look cute and cuddly compared to…

A scientist who is used to organizing data starts tracking scientific meetings that seem to exist only on paper—meetings that might decide the fate of years of research. The NIH website shows one reality; the empty conference rooms tell another…

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other?

You’d expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why meteorites that contain carbon appear less…

The concept of the Portable Document Format (PDF) is synonymous with the idea of small, accessible documents—nothing too out of the ordinary. But what if we told you that in the world of PDFs, there are no limits to how large a document can…