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FDA Hosts Discussion on AI Transparency in Cardiac Devices
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is convening a discussion to address the importance of transparency and trust in artificial...
NASA Is Set to Send Astronauts Around the Moon Again
NASA is preparing for the Artemis II mission, scheduled to launch no earlier than February 6, 2026. This 10-day mission will be the first crewed...
Three Authors Awarded $10,000 for Merging Science and Literature
On January 21, 2026, the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the winners of the fifth annual Science +...
NASA’s Lunar Launcher
The massive rocket system that will ferry NASA astronauts on the Artemis II mission was moved to its launch pad Saturday, the latest step in the...
Monumental Fossil Discovery
Roughly 3,000 pounds of fossils and rock have been unearthed at Dinosaur National Monument, the National Park Service said yesterday. The...
NASA’s Mars “Slope Streaks” Confirmed as Wind-driven, Not Liquid Water
Mars: NASA and Brown University researchers concluded that mysterious dark streaks on Martian slopes—once hypothesized as water flows—are merely...
Research Payloads, Including Holographic Microscope and Nanomaterials for Medicine, Return From ISS
Low Earth Orbit: SpaceX’s 32nd commercial resupply mission successfully returned to Earth with a suite of scientific investigations from the...
NASA Explores “Gravity Poppers” Concept for Mapping Interiors of Small Solar System Bodies
Pasadena, California: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes “Gravity Poppers,” tiny hopping probes to map the internal mass distribution of...
Newly Discovered Silicone Variant Exhibits Semiconductor Properties, Challenging Material Assumptions
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan researchers identified a novel form of silicone that behaves as a semiconductor, overturning...
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