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DOGE Cuts Hobble Office That Would Aid NASA and SpaceX Mars Landings

An office in an obscure corner of the federal government that NASA has relied on to safely land astronauts on the moon and...

How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such...

This Kidney Was Frozen for 10 Days. Could Surgeons Transplant It?

On the last day of March, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital began an operation that they hoped might lead to a permanent change...

Blue Origin Flight Will Take 6 Women, Including Gayle King and Katy Perry, to Space

The broadcast journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry were set to make a brief trip into space on Monday on a...

Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Sperm Whale Teeth and Bones

A South Carolina man pleaded guilty on Thursday to importing sperm whale teeth and bones from four countries and selling them in the...

The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines

During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office,...

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?

An Australian psychologist named Luise Kazda has studied this very question. In a 2021 review paper, she and her colleagues found 14 studies...

A CautionaryTale of 408 Tentacles

In his posts, Dr. Clifford tried to be clear about the difficulties of octopus ownership: the costs, the lack of sleep and the...

How Lauren Sanchez Helped Design Blue Origin’s Flight Suits

What do you wear for your first trip to space?If you are like most people, probably whatever spacesuit or astronaut outfit the company...

Jonathan McDowell on Retiring From Harvard and Leaving the U.S.

Jonathan McDowell is a go-to expert for all things spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers read his monthly Space Report, and far more people have...

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