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Stunning Mosaic Reveals 20 Years-Worth of Mars Data in a Single Image

The Mars Express orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first interplanetary mission, entered orbit around Mars on June 2, 2003. Since then, the probe has mapped the Martian surface using its High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), an instrument built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with commercial partners. In honor of the mission’s 20th anniversary, a […]

Weight-Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Are Powerful, but a Simple Health Fix May Be Better

In the past five years, several new drugs have been brought to market that could lead to a profound, if not revolutionary, change in how healthcare providers — and the public — view weight loss. Three drugs in particular — sold under the brand names Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro — have shown remarkable effects on […]

This Rare Type of Nightmare Could Put You At Risk For Dementia

A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep has been garnering attention for its role in foreshadowing neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. The disorder, known as REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD in the medical field, affects […]

This One Metric Is More Important Than Temperature To Know If It’s Safe Outside

This year, even before the Northern Hemisphere hot season began, temperature records were being shattered. Spain, for instance, saw temperatures in April (38.8 degrees Celsius) that would be out of the ordinary even at the peak of summer. South and Southeast Asia, in particular, were hammered by a very persistent heatwave, and all-time record temperatures […]

“It’s the Wild West:” Dispensaries are putting these mood-altering mushroom extracts in edibles

TAMPA, Fla. — When a hemp dispensary in this Florida city started to stock edibles with certain mushroom extracts last year, state regulators quickly ordered it to stop selling the items. The shop had been advertising fruit-flavored gummies and other products containing tiny doses of mood-altering chemicals from the mushroom Amanita muscaria. The red-capped, white-spotted […]

This Forgotten Grain With Astounding Resilience Could Help Enable A Climate-Friendly Diet

The midwest is known for its rows and rows of corn and soybeans that uniformly cover the landscape. But in central Missouri, farmer Linus Rothermich disrupts the usual corn and soybean rotation with Japanese millet. He has been growing it since 1993. “Golly, I have to think how far back that is,” he said. “I […]

New Study Opens the Door for “Hundreds of Millions” of Habitable Exoplanets

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a pair of researchers from the University of Florida (UF) examined orbital eccentricities for exoplanets orbiting red dwarf (M dwarf) stars and determined that one-third of them — which encompass hundreds of millions throughout the Milky Way — could exist within […]

How “Molecular Machines” Could Target Treatment-Resistant Illnesses

Fungi are present on the skin of around 70 percent of the population without causing harm or benefit. Some fungal infections, like . This yeast-like fungus can cause life-threatening infections in immunocompromised people. Compared with conventional drugs, molecular machines killed C. albicans much faster. Subsequent studies found that molecular machines could also kill other fungi, […]

Astronauts Are Testing How To Steer Robots on a Planet From Orbit

The European Space Agency has been hosting a series of robotic teleoperation experiments where an astronaut abroad on the ISS controls a by Andy Tomaswick. Read the original article here.

Alien Hunters are Enlisting the Public’s Help on an Ambitious Practice Run

Is it a multimedia art project? Or a rehearsal for alien contact? Let’s call it both: Researchers specializing in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, worked with a media artist to stage the receipt of an interstellar message — and a global effort to decode the message. The project, titled “A Sign in Space,” […]