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Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. To doom invasive fish, scientists are breeding ‘supermales’ Technique shown to eradicate exotic trout—by producing all male populations 28 Aug 2026 By Erik Stokstad 2. Key brain circuit regulating hibernation found at last Discovery in hamsters suggests path toward inducing hibernation in mammals that don’t do it naturally 27 Aug 2026 By Ailie McWhinnie 3.
Dreams of making drugs and tissues in space get closer to reality
Table of contents A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 393, Issue 6814.Download PDF Related podcast Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas Podcast 27 Aug 2026 El Segundo, California—For nearly a century, this coastal Los Angeles suburb has been the beating heart of the U.S. aerospace industry. During World War II, factories here cranked out bombers for the Pacific theater.
Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas
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Home Bo Huang, Ph.D. Back To Home Share on X Bo Huang, Ph.D. Dr. Huang is a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and of biochemistry and biophysics (joint) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Peking University in 2001, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University in 2006.
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A Young Magician Wanted to Build an Epic Magic Collection. Did He Go Too Far?
T he trouble began with Harry Houdini’s beaver-skin top hat. Tim Moore — known in Columbus, Ohio, as Dr. Magic Smile — was a dentist and magician, in one. He performed sleight of hand to settle his patients’ nerves, and he helped run MagiFest, a longtime Columbus magic convention. But Moore didn’t just love magic. He had spent much of his life collecting antique posters and tricks that once belonged to history’s greatest magicians.
Letní slunovrat nastává 21. června – co přesně se děje na obloze a proč k němu dochází
Letošní letní slunovrat nastává na severní polokouli 21. června v 10:24 středoevropského letního času (SELČ). Jižně od rovníku tentýž okamžik znamená začátek zimy. Slunovrat nastává po celém světě ve stejnou chvíli, jen místní čas se liší podle časových pásem. Letní a zimní slunovraty tradičně pomáhaly označovat střídání ročních období – spolu se svými protějšky, jarní a podzimní rovnodenností.
The science and symbolism behind the summer solstice
This year, the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice occurs on June 21 at 4:24 a.m. EST. South of the Equator, this same moment marks the beginning of winter. Solstices occur at the same time around the world, but their local times vary with time zones. Traditionally, summer and winter solstices helped mark the changing of the seasons—along with their counterparts, the spring and autumnal equinoxes.
Artemis: volvemos a la Luna 50 años después
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Artemis: volvemos a la Luna 50 años después Autores: Michael Greshko, Dan Winters (fot.) Localización: National geographic, ISSN 1138-1434, Vol. 53, Nº. 4 (OCT), 2023, págs. 2-33 Idioma: español Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...) Resumen El programa Artemis de la NASA se prepara para enviar humanos a nuestro satélite por primera vez desde 1972.
Artemis II captures an ‘Earthset’ and stunning views of the Moon
$ Please enter a valid amount Email: Please enter a valid email Country: I also wish to receive emails from AAAS/Science and Science advertisers, including information on products, services and special offers which may include but are not limited to news, careers information & upcoming events. Support nonprofit science journalism Amid the unprecedented upheaval in U.S. science, hard-hitting, trustworthy reporting has never been more important.
Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting
First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox, Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko, and intern Perri Thaler share their experiences from the AAAS annual meeting in Phoenix. Christie recorded on location with David Rand regarding his prize-winning Science paper on using a large language model to combat conspiracy theories. Check out the live version of his team’s Debunk Bot.
Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher, a new study suggests
A newly invented cipher may shed light on how the mysterious Voynich manuscript was made in medieval times. © Art Collection 2 via AlamyThe Voynich manuscript has never been deciphered. A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in the Voynich manuscript, a new study shows. The finding suggests that an equivalent cipher could have been used to create the mysterious medieval manuscript.
Hack reveals reviewer identities for huge AI conference
A data breach last month has revealed the identities of the anonymous reviewers who evaluated thousands of papers for one of the world’s biggest conferences on artificial intelligence (AI). The revelation—which has resulted in harassment and attempted extortion of some reviewers—comes as many AI researchers fear the field’s rapid growth is straining peer review to its breaking point.
The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext
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How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine
First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko about the impact of wildfires on wine; a couple horse stories, one modern, one ancient; and why educators are racing to archive government materials. Next on the show, research that took advantage of a natural experiment in unnatural lighting.
How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine
First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko about the impact of wildfires on wine; a couple horse stories, one modern, one ancient; and why educators are racing to archive government materials. Next on the show, research that took advantage of a natural experiment in unnatural lighting.
Há 25 anos, a humanidade também vive no Espaço: como são os dias na Estação Espacial Internacional
Existem seres humanos vivendo e trabalhando na Estação Espacial Internacional (ISS) desde o ano 2000 — e essa longa sequência de anos pode estar apenas começando. Antes de retornar à Terra em abril de 2020, a astronauta da Nasa e engenheira de voo da Expedição 61/62, Jessica Meir, tocou saxofone alto na cúpula com muitas janelas da ISS. Publicado 27 de ago.
Giant radar satellite set to probe Earth’s shifts and shudders
Earth is in constant motion. Earthquakes dislocate and shift the terrain; hurricanes flood coastlines and flatten crops; ice sheets creak and heave. A new radar satellite jointly built by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) promises to capture these dynamics in extraordinary detail. As soon as 26 July, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR, will be launched from India.
What is the summer solstice? What to know about the longest day of the year
This year, the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice occurs on June 20 at 10:42 p.m. EST. South of the Equator, this same moment marks the beginning of summer. Solstices occur at the same time around the world, but their local times vary with time zones. Traditionally, summer and winter solstices helped mark the changing of the seasons—along with their counterparts, the spring and autumnal equinoxes.
What is the summer solstice? What to know about the longest day of the year
This year, the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice occurs on June 20 at 10:42 p.m. EST. South of the Equator, this same moment marks the beginning of summer. Solstices occur at the same time around the world, but their local times vary with time zones. Traditionally, summer and winter solstices helped mark the changing of the seasons—along with their counterparts, the spring and autumnal equinoxes.
‘Dragon prince’ dinosaur may be missing link in T. rex evolution
In May 2023, paleontologist Jared Voris found himself within one of the hallowed halls of dinosaur paleontology: the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. As some of the past century’s most iconic dinosaur fossils surrounded him, he pored over a mysterious collection of fossil leg bones. Decades earlier, a Mongolian paleontologist had briefly described the fossils as belonging to an early cousin of tyrannosaurs, the famous group of predatory dinos that included Tyrannosaurus rex.
How the Philippines’ Coral Heart Keeps Beating
National Geographic produced this content as part of our partnership with Rolex, formed to promote exploration and conservation. The organizations will join forces in efforts that support veteran explorers, nurture emerging explorers, and protect Earth’s wonders. The year was 1981, and Angelique Songco, then an employee of a dive boat, found herself marveling at the atolls before her, the coral heart of the Philippines.
Museum With Renowned Dinosaur Fossils Gets a $25 Million Gift
Carole Kamin first walked through the doors of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1975 after taking a job as a buyer for the Pittsburgh museum’s gift shop. Awe-struck by the fossils on display, she would style herself as a “dinosaur queen” for the next 20 years. She sourced dino-patterned fabric from India for barbecue aprons. She worked with a toy manufacturer to produce models of the museum’s ancient creatures.
Museum With Renowned Dinosaur Fossils Gets a $25 Million Gift
Carole Kamin first walked through the doors of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1975 after taking a job as a buyer for the Pittsburgh museum's gift shop. Awe-struck by the fossils on display, she would style herself as a "dinosaur queen" for the next 20 years. She sourced dino-patterned fabric from India for barbecue aprons. She worked with a toy manufacturer to produce models of the museum's ancient creatures.
Blue Ghost, Third Private U.S. Lunar Lander, Launches to the Moon
In the classic country ballad “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” a cowboy receives a frightening vision: the devil’s herd of cows thundering through the clouds, chased by the souls of cowpokes who must “ride forever on that range up in the sky / on horses snorting fire.” At 1:11 A.M. EST on January 15 Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace, rode its own fiery steed through the heavens, launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to become just the...
NASA punts decision on Mars sample return to next administration
NASA is considering two options for the shape of its reworked mission to collect rock samples from the surface of Mars and rocket them to Earth, the agency announced today. Either one would cut billions from the original mission’s cost and speed its development. But the agency will leave the choice to the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. The decision reflects both technical and political reality, Bill Nelson, NASA’s outgoing administrator, said in a press briefing.
Success for NASA’s Artemis Program Keeps Slipping Farther into the Future
With its Artemis program, NASA aims to return humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. And on the eve of a new presidential administration, agency officials have announced both a delay to the program’s next major mission and their intent to make that mission more ambitious in scope.
Brain Implants That Treat Disease
“Taking an idea, putting it as a design, and actually having a physical item as a finished product makes me feel like I’m building things again,” the second trial participant said in a post on Neuralink’s website. Neuralink is just one of many private businesses and university research labs developing new BCI technologies, and others are working to improve brain implants we already have.
Introducing Deviations
Hello! Of all the links your thumb could have clicked on, thanks for spending a moment on this one. I’m delighted to announce that I’m launching Deviations: a free, roughly biweekly experimental newsletter that will explore science, art, and the data that describe our world. Who are you? I’m a freelance science journalist and contributor to publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Nature, Science, and Quanta Magazine.
'Navio fantasma do Pacífico' é encontrado na Califórnia por drones aquáticos
Em 1º de agosto, um navio lançou sua carga incomum em uma parte do oceano cerca de 112 quilômetros a noroeste de São Francisco, nos Estados Unidos: três robôs laranja, cada um com mais de 6 metros de comprimento e em formato de torpedo. Por um dia, os drones aquáticos patrulharam as águas de forma autônoma, escaneando quase 130 quilômetros quadrados de fundo do mar. A cerca de mil metros abaixo da superfície, uma aparição apareceu no sonar potente dos robôs.
Wreck of ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ Found Off California
On Aug. 1, a ship dropped its unusual cargo into a patch of ocean some 70 miles northwest of San Francisco: three orange robots, each more than 20 feet long and shaped like a torpedo. For a day, the aquatic drones autonomously prowled the waters, scanning nearly 50 square miles of ocean floor. Some 3,500 feet beneath the surface, an apparition popped up on the robots’ powerful sonar. Down in the darkness, the drones saw a ghost.
Los restos del 'barco fantasma del Pacífico' aparecen frente a California
DD-224Shipwrecks (Historic)United States Defense and Military ForcesWorld War II (1939-45)Submarines and SubmersiblesRobots and RoboticsOceans and Seasyour-feed-scienceOcean Infinity Group Ltd El redescubrimiento del buque, que fue capturado por las fuerzas japonesas durante un tiempo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pone de relieve el potencial de los vehículos autónomos submarinos para cartografiar el fondo oceánico. [Estamos en WhatsApp.
Power-Thirsty AI Turns to Mothballed Nuclear Plants. Is That Safe?
Microsoft announced on 20 September that it had struck a 20-year deal to purchase energy from a dormant nuclear power plant that will be brought back online. And not just any plant: Three Mile Island, the facility in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, that was the site of the worst-ever nuclear accident on US soil when a partial meltdown of one of its reactors occurred in 1979.
Los restos del 'barco fantasma del PacĂfico' aparecen frente a California
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] El 1 de agosto, unos 110 kilómetros al noroeste de San Francisco, un barco dejó caer en el océano su insólita carga: tres robots naranjas con forma de torpedo, de más de seis metros de largo cada uno. Durante un día, los drones acuáticos merodearon de forma autónoma las aguas, examinando casi 130 kilómetros cuadrados de fondo oceánico. Alrededor de 1100 metros bajo la superficie, el potente sonar de los robots detectó una aparición.
Wreck of ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ Found Off California
Share On Aug. 1, a ship dropped its unusual cargo into a patch of ocean some 70 miles northwest of San Francisco: three orange robots, each more than 20 feet long and shaped like a torpedo. For a day, the aquatic drones autonomously prowled the waters, scanning nearly 50 square miles of ocean floor.Some 3,500 feet beneath the surface, an apparition popped up on the robots’ powerful sonar.
Wreck of ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ Found Off California
Wreck of ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ Found Off California On Aug. 1, a ship dropped its unusual cargo into a patch of ocean some 70 miles northwest of San Francisco: three orange robots, each more than 20 feet long and shaped like a torpedo. For a day, the aquatic drones autonomously prowled the waters, scanning nearly 50 square miles of ocean floor. Some …
Wreck of 'Ghost Ship of the Pacific' Found Off California Original
On Aug. 1, a ship dropped its unusual cargo into a patch of ocean some 70 miles northwest of San Francisco: three orange robots, each more than 20 feet long and shaped like a torpedo. For a day, the aquatic drones autonomously prowled the waters, scanning nearly 50 square miles of ocean floor. Some 3,500 feet beneath the surface, an apparition popped up on the robots' powerful sonar. Down in the darkness, the drones saw a ghost.
Nuclear power for AI: what it will take to reopen Three Mile Island safely
Microsoft announced on 20 September that it had struck a 20-year deal to purchase energy from a dormant nuclear power plant that will be brought back online. And not just any plant: Three Mile Island, the facility in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, that was the site of the worst-ever nuclear accident on US soil when a partial meltdown of one of its reactors occurred in 1979.
First private spacewalk a success! What the SpaceX mission means for science
Polaris Dawn, the private SpaceX mission currently orbiting Earth, has already set several records since its launch on 10 September. Hours after taking off, the mission’s Crew Dragon spacecraft reached an altitude of 1,400 kilometres, the highest orbit above Earth achieved by a crewed spacecraft and the farthest humans have travelled from Earth since NASA’s Apollo missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Europa Clipper, NASA’s Mission to Jupiter’s Oceanic Moon, Is ‘Go’ for Launch Original
After decades of dreaming of Jupiter’s moon Europa — and the vast ocean that probably lies beneath its icy surface — scientists are now weeks away from sending a spacecraft there. NASA confirmed yesterday that its Europa Clipper mission will launch on schedule, following a scare that it might have to be significantly delayed owing to possibly faulty transistors installed on the US$5-billion spacecraft.
NASA okays mission to search for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa
After decades of dreaming of Jupiter’s moon Europa — and the vast ocean that probably lies beneath its icy surface — scientists are now weeks away from sending a spacecraft there. NASA confirmed yesterday that its Europa Clipper mission will launch on schedule, following a scare that it might have to be significantly delayed owing to possibly faulty transistors installed on the US$5-billion spacecraft.
The origins of the universe facts and information
The best-supported theory of our universe's origin centers on an event known as the big bang. This theory was born of the observation that other galaxies are moving away from our own at great speed in all directions, as if they had all been propelled by an ancient explosive force. A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître first suggested the big bang theory in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.
NASA May Spend $800 Million to Not Send This Revolutionary Rover to the Moon
In early June NASA engineers put the finishing touches on a technological marvel years in the making: a golf cart-sized rover designed to drive into the cold and darkness near the moon’s south pole, on the hunt for water ice.
What is the summer solstice? Here’s what you need to know.
This year, the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice falls on June 20 at 4:50 p.m. EST. South of the Equator, this same moment marks the beginning of winter. Solstices occur at the same time around the world, but their local times vary with time zones. Traditionally, summer and winter solstices helped mark the changing of the seasons—along with their counterparts, the spring and autumnal equinoxes.
Aging Hubble telescope moves to ‘one-gyro’ operations, reducing productivity and limiting science
For more than 34 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided extraordinary views of the cosmos in part because it can quickly take precise aim: good enough to hold a laser steady on a drink coaster more than 1600 kilometers away. Now, failing hardware has forced NASA to shift to a slower pointing system that, though still precise, will reduce the telescope’s efficiency and limit the science it can do.
Lunar Dust Could ‘Sandblast’ Astronauts on the Moon, Studies Warn
A new theory of how rockets erode moon soil makes a startling prediction: powered lunar landings may fling around four to 10 times more material than previously thought. The work suggests that without sufficient precautions, rocket-lofted lunar dust would pose a serious sandblasting hazard to cargo and crew on the moon. The physicist behind the new calculations, Phil Metzger, is one of the world’s leading experts on how rocket plumes interact with planetary surfaces.
Una donación masiva de fósiles ayuda al Museo Nacional de Brasil a resurgir de las cenizas
La noche del 2 de septiembre de 2018, un incendio arrasó el Museo Nacional de Brasil, devastando la institución científica más antigua del país y uno de los museos más grandes e importantes de Sudamérica. El 7 de mayo, la institución anunció que recibió una importante donación de fósiles brasileños antiguos para ayudar a reconstruir su colección antes de su reapertura, que está programada para 2026.
Extreme solar storm generated aurorae-and ‘surprise’
Earth got its bell rung this past weekend, sucker-punched by the Sun itself in the biggest geomagnetic storm in more than 2 decades. The storm—triggered when the magnetic fields in blobs of plasma from the Sun collided with Earth’s magnetic field—not only yielded once-in-a-generation aurorae at latitudes as low as the Florida Keys, but also took scientists’ breath away with its power.
Una donación masiva de fósiles ayuda al Museo Nacional de Brasil a resurgir de las cenizas
La noche del 2 de septiembre de 2018, un incendio arrasó el Museo Nacional de Brasil, devastando la institución científica más antigua del país y uno de los museos más grandes e importantes de Sudamérica. El martes, la institución anunció que recibió una importante donación de fósiles brasileños antiguos para ayudar a reconstruir su colección antes de su reapertura que está programada para 2026.
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