Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
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A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing
The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds
Hubble Space Telescope Provides New View of NGC 3511
The Hubble team has produced a spectacular new image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 3511. This Hubble image shows NGC 3511, an intermediate spiral galaxy some 43 million light-years
How Dinosaurs Shaped Fruit Evolution
For Fruit Seeds, Humans Are Modern-Day Dinosaurs By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be filled by humans By Gayoung
Where Did Kosmos-482 Land? No One Is Sure
May 18, 2025 Accidental Alchemy, Flamingo Food Tornado, and Kosmos-482 Lands Kosmos-482 crash-lands, physicists turn lead to gold and animals show some clever behaviors. By Rachel Feltman, Allison Parshall, Fonda
Tornadoes Expected to Strike Multiple States This Weekend in One of the Worst Seasons This Decade
Tornadoes are predicted across swaths of the U.S. in the coming days, likely adding to this year’s already high tally of such storms By Meghan Bartels edited by Dean Visser
How to Build a ‘Black Hole Bomb’
A bomb from a black hole would probably be the most destructive weapon in the universe. Hypothetically, it could be created by wrapping one of these cosmic monsters in mirrors
How Trump’s National Weather Service Cuts Could Cost Lives
Just more than 100 years ago, on March 18, 1925, a tornado slashed across the U.S. Midwest with no warning at all and killed 695 people—a massive number for a
The History Hidden in Names
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We’ve Got the Beat—in Our Genes
Back when I was a mohawked teenager, my mother was horrified by the music that moved me. Dutiful flower child that she had been, merely mentioning The Dead Kennedys would
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