What to know about a rare hantavirus outbreak at sea
Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has been human-to-human spread.
Category: Science
Building on America’s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflight
America’s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on
‘I was not looking for this’: Scientist accidentally finds shortcut to Mars that could slash travel time in half
A new study suggests early asteroid trajectory data could help design faster Mars missions, potentially cutting round-trip travel time to under a year.
Hantavirus infects at least 2 on cruise ship, while 5 others fall ill: Here’s what we know
Three people have died and four more have fallen ill on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, and hantaviruses are confirmed to be the
Do GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic prevent cancer?
Several studies have served up tantalizing hints about the drugs’ potential cancer prevention benefits, but other results land all over the map.
Canadian ’emoji’ lake vanishes after dramatic, landslide-like collapse — Earth from space
A pair of satellite photos reveals the drastic transformation of Canada’s Lake Rouge, which was fully drained after the sudden collapse of one of its
Mysterious green rocks in Pyrenees cave hint that prehistoric people were working copper there for 4,000 years
Dozens of pieces of bright-green rock discovered in a cave in the Pyrenees may be evidence of copper smelting 7,000 years ago.
Hubble Spots a Starry Spiral
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 3137, located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump).
Estrogen in both the male and female brain shapes responses to trauma, study suggests
Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain’s resilience against such stressors, a mouse study finds.
NASA just released 12,000 more Artemis II photos — here are a dozen of our favorites
NASA just uploaded more than 12,000 photos snapped by the Artemis II crew during their record-breaking flyby around the moon. Here are some of the
3 cruise ship passengers are dead, and hantavirus is the suspected culprit: What to know
Three people have died and three more have fallen ill on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, and hantaviruses may be behind the cases.
The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells
Living on light is a dangerous game. Not only do the sun’s rays carry ultraviolet waves that can snap DNA strands and degrade molecules, but
A small object past Pluto may have a thin atmosphere
A brief stellar eclipse suggests the tiny 2002 XV93 has a thin atmosphere — a first for any solar system body farther from the sun
Newly mapped brain networks link far-flung regions
In mouse brains, star-shaped astrocytes form flexible networks that may offer another way for brain regions to communicate.