Nasa has begun returning its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Florida launch pad before a planned flyby of the moon, after completing necessary repairs.
Artemis engineers began the manoeuvre, which can take up to 12 hours, at 8pm…

Nasa has begun returning its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Florida launch pad before a planned flyby of the moon, after completing necessary repairs.
Artemis engineers began the manoeuvre, which can take up to 12 hours, at 8pm…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.
[CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in the Project Hail Mary trailer: “Please…

Researchers have identified the giant fish, Xiphactinus, behind a fatal bite preserved in a Polycotylus plesiosaur fossil. The discovery comes from a broken tooth embedded in the throat of a 13-foot (4.0-meter) marine reptile from ancient…

MEDINA, Ohio — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was seen from hundreds of miles…

UK health authorities are probing 27 cases linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak believed to have spread at a nightclub in southeast England.
Here’s everything we know about the disease and the outbreak:
Meningitis is a…

(AP) – Federal regulators on Thursday approved a new higher-dose version of the blockbuster obesity drug Wegovy that may help users lose more weight and keep it off.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a 7.2-milligram dose of…

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00850-z
Compounds that are used to make plastics and personal-care products were found in all types of marine environment, a meta-analysis shows.

Researchers are attempting to build the world’s first nuclear clock. This is a view inside the vacuum chamber that holds crystals doped with the isotope thorium-229, which can be excited by a laser.Credit: Ye Labs/JILA/NIST/University of…

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10411-z
Author Correction: A PP1–PP2A phosphatase relay controls mitotic progression

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A decade or so after earning a PhD is a pivotal stage in a person’s academic career. The urgency of establishing your career has faded — you are probably no longer scrambling to secure your first grant or write your…