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The launch of the Artemis II mission to send humans around the Moon is fast approaching. The Register had a go at building Lego’s latest SLS set and found it a lot of fun, particularly making whooshing noises as the rocket “launches.”

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Each time we’ve looked at the Universe in a fundamentally new way, we didn’t just see more of what we already knew was out there. In addition, those novel capabilities allowed the Universe to surprise us, breaking records,…

Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing global health threat. Here’s what you need to know.

Free-living amoebas are single-celled organisms that don’t need…

PENSACOLA, Fla. — One case of measles has been confirmed in the Pensacola area.

Pensacola Pediatrics says they were recently notified of this case.

“Measles is highly contagious, and unvaccinated individuals are at increased risk if exposed,”…

Coffee first entered human lives and veins over 600 years ago.

Now we consume an average of almost two kilos per person each year – sometimes with very specific preferences about blends and preparation methods. How much you drink is…

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones has revealed the key role microbes play in intestinal stem cell function.

After receiving a fecal microbiota transplant from younger mice, one aspect of age-related decline in…

In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky Way. These stars, as it turned out, were unbound objects that had been kicked out of the Milky Way and…

A bleak photograph shows a mother polar bear and her three cubs resting on bare ground and moss, their coats brown with mud.

The image is on the shortlist for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award — a…