Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space - Ars Technica
The BOHR mission serves as a pathfinder for future nuclear-powered spacecraft."
Why a gene-editing breakthrough has some experts worried - CNN
New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not safe.
Ancient Roman May Have Been the World’s First Collector of Sea Monster Fossils - Gizmodo
Whether this person was an early paleontologist or a fanatic of Greek myths, researchers aren't sure.
Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst - Ars Technica
The crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how?
A Hidden Nuclear Weapon Could Already Be Orbiting Earth. This MIT Physicist Has a Plan to Find It - Gizmodo
The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit—but we currently have no way to verify that satellites aren't carrying them.
Is Life Just Different? - Quanta Magazine
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?
Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature
This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combination, identifying those essential for mouse embryonic stem c…
Humans And Neanderthals Shared a Culture For 20,000 Years, Cave Discovery Suggests - ScienceAlert
We know from the traces left behind in our DNA that Homo sapiens met and mingled with Neanderthals long before our species eventually came to dominate.
A 14-year-old who applied to NASA, was rejected, and ended up cleaning a space toilet on work experience in Leicester now leads Mars exploration studies at the European Space Agency - Space Daily
In 2001, ahead of the opening of the National Space Centre in Leicester, a teenager on work experience was helping to prepare the exhibits. One of them was a
Within hours of reaching microgravity, astronauts’ body fluids shift toward the head, dulling smell and taste — one reason NASA monitors daily nutrition so closely as crews fight the muscle loss space exercise alone cannot fully prevent - Space Daily
The first thing that happens to a body in orbit is that it starts to rearrange itself. With no gravity pulling blood and other fluids down toward the legs,
Earth may survive the sun's death after all, new study suggests - Space
"Observations of sun-like giant stars currently point towards Earth's survival, but we need better observations before we can be certain."
What happens to your brain in space? - BBC
Space messes with astronauts' brains – and that might have implications for missions beyond the Moon.
What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August - Phys.org
Day will briefly turn into night across a swath of northern Spain on Aug. 12, when the moon will completely cover the sun during a rare total solar eclipse.
An Unknown Chemical Signature Has Been Detected on Pluto And Titan - ScienceAlert
Two worlds at almost opposite ends of the Solar System have just given us a mystery we didn't even know existed.
30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now? - The Conversation
Today, cloning is not a technology that can simply “copy and paste” living things. But it’s brought advances in several fields of science.