NASA seems to be backing away from hunting for life on Mars
Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.
Earth’s first animals barely evolved until sex changed everything
Earth’s earliest animals may have held evolution back because they reproduced asexually, creating low-competition communities that changed very little over time. When environmental pressures pushed
California’s Gavin Newsom alleges justice department is investigating his wife and ex-staff
A source familiar with the investigations says they had been ongoing for “roughly a year”.
‘Greatest feeling ever’: Cape Verdeans tell BBC of joy at holding Spain to draw
The streets of the capital, Praia, shook with wild celebrations as the small island nation held Spain to a shock 0-0 draw.
A blast from the past: The “interstitium,” the inspiration for that recent awful NYT acupuncture article
I’m on vacation this week and decided to repost a 2018 article that I had written for my other blog (but never published on SBM)
RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she
Does video show Fox News reporter saying reflecting pool’s green algae-infested water is blue?
Workers completed a Trump administration directive to paint the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “American flag blue” in early June 2026.
Will Trump administration give Iran $300B in deal to end war? There’s no proof
President Tweety McTreason and Vice President JD Vance have both denied Iran would receive any money directly from the U.S. government.
Mike Mazzei and Gentner Drummond advance to GOP runoff in Oklahoma governor contest
No candidate got a majority of the vote in the primary, NBC News projects, as Republicans compete to succeed term-limited Gov. Kevin Stitt.
De Zinedine a Luca: otro Zidane pisa el escenario más grande del fútbol
El apellido Zidane volvió a resonar en una Copa Mundial. Luca Zidane debutó con Argelia y siguió los pasos de su legendario padre, Zinedine, al
RSV hospitalization rate for seniors is 10 times higher than usual for this point in the season
The respiratory virus season has started early in kids this year and flooded children’s hospitals in many parts of the country — especially with respiratory
Covid-19 boosters could keep thousands of kids out of hospitals, but uptake remains low
Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates among US children could prevent thousands of pediatric hospitalizations and millions of missed school days, according to an analysis published Tuesday
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Reality Elite and a white-label toolkit for AI glasses, betting the next platform is not a phone
Qualcomm announced two products on Tuesday aimed at positioning the company as the silicon supplier for whatever computing device eventually displaces the smartphone. The first
Google rolls out Android 17 with Gemini Intelligence, foldable gaming mode, and tighter privacy controls
Google is rolling out Android 17 to Pixel devices starting today, delivering multitasking tools, a dedicated foldable gaming mode, and a set of privacy changes