The FAA releases initial report on Boca Chica launches, and it’s not terrible
Enlarge / SpaceX's Booster 4 is lifted onto its orbital launch mount in South Texas. (credit: Elon Musk/Twitter) The Federal Aviation Administration released a draft environmental review of SpaceX's plans for orbital launches from South Texas on Friday, kicking
Biden has big ambitions in foreign policy. Can they survive Kabul?
The nightmarish U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan raises doubts about Biden's other foreign policy goals, and his bold claim that 'America is back.'
The Taliban says it wants to ban drugs in Afghanistan. Here’s why it can’t
Decades of war and poverty have driven Afghan farmers to grow poppy to earn steady income. The Taliban's return to power does little to change that.
What we know about the five California service members killed in Kabul airport blast
Five Californians were among the U.S. service members killed in the Kabul airport blast last week in Afghanistan.
‘A heck of a ride for us’: SpaceX’s all-civilian crew touch down on Earth after historic three days in orbit
A SpaceX capsule carrying the first all-civilian crew into space has touched back down on Earth after three days in orbit.The four amateur astronauts orbited the
Infants of women exposed to intimate partner violence have neurodevelopmental lags
While assessing a pregnant woman with premature labor in 1983, Linda Bullock noticed bruises on the woman. When she asked what happened, the woman told Bullock a refrigerator had fallen on her while cleaning the kitchen.
Higher white matter extracellular free-water related to cognitive dysfunction in lupus patients
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues, causing widespread inflammation and damage in the affected organs.
Cross-species locomotion features shared by dopamine-deficient worms, mice, and humans
Scientists from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Osaka University used animal location tracking along with artificial intelligence to automatically detect walking behaviors of movement disorders that are shared across species.
Satellite images show N Korea expanding Yongbyon nuclear facility
Photos suggest expanded enrichment plant could increase production of weapons-grade plutonium by as much as 25 percent.
Last two escaped Palestinian prisoners recaptured: Israeli police
Police say the two men, who escaped on Sept 6, were found in an eastern district of Jenin city.
Mary W. Jackson: Celebrating Leaders From Historically Black Colleges
Mary W. Jackson grew up in Hampton, Virginia and attended the historically black college Hampton Institute (now Hampton University).
White evangelicalism declines while those who no longer identify as religious rise
The extent to which the number of white evangelicals have declined in the United States has been laid bare in a new report by the Public Religion Research Institute’s 2020 Census on American Religion. The institute’s study found that only