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The election of US President Donald Trump last year triggered widespread concern in the US scientific community, but some researchers saw a glimmer of hope in the form of Michael Kratsios — the president’s chief science adviser. Scientists…

Margaret Ann Boden, one of the last surviving members of the first generation of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, has died at 89. She was the sort of polymath that many AI scientists long thought essential to…

NASA is facing one of the largest workforce shakeups in its history, with nearly 4,000 employees — about one-fifth of its civil service staff — choosing to leave through voluntary buyout programs in recent months. The numbers come from…

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:

• A research paper proposes a fully physically realized model for warp drive.

• This builds on an existing model that requires negative energy—an impossibility.

• The new model is exciting, but warp…

The Moon completes about 12.37 orbits of Earth each year. Most years see 12 new moons, but occasionally there are 13. When a season, defined as the period between a solstice and an equinox, contains four new moons, the fourth is called a black…