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FDA Lifts Import Ban on Genetically Modified Salmon That Reach Market Twice as Fast

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that it is lifting an import ban that prevented a brand of genetically modified salmon—dubbed “Frankenfish” by some—from reaching U.S. shopping selves, CNN reported. The FDA originally cleared AquaAdvantage salmon, which is genetically engineered to grow year-round and thus reach the market twice as fast as unmodified…

Biology Tom McKay Mar 9

A Single Person Infected 21 Others With Measles Amid New York’s Worst Outbreak in Decades

Amid two ongoing measles outbreaks on both sides of the United States, New York City health officials say an unvaccinated student who was permitted to attend school was linked to 21 other cases of the virus. Dozens of people have been infected since last fall in the city’s ongoing outbreak, one of particular magnitude. The New…

Health Catie Keck Mar 9

I Love Vaccines. Which Ones Can I Get as an Adult?

The anti-vaccination movement has more than earned its latest round of bad press. The U.S. is currently dealing with several outbreaks of measles, a disease effectively wiped out by routine childhood vaccination in the country two decades ago. And just this week, Oregon doctors reported that a six-year-old boy had to endure months of excruciating…

Health Ed Cara Mar 9

CDC Preparing Report on E-Scooter Injuries Amid Claims of People Getting Seriously Hurt

Love ’em or hate ’em—and many, many do—e-scooters are taking cities across the globe by storm. But amid ongoing reports that people are seriously messing themselves up on these things, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided last year to take a closer look at why this is happening. Epidemiologists with the agency landed…

Health Catie Keck Mar 8

NASA Satellite Captures Optical Illusion Where the Moon Appears to Go Backwards

Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a strange series of images in which the Moon appears to go rogue, crossing the Sun as usual but then briefly pausing to change direction. No, it’s not a sign of cosmological armageddon, but an optical illusion familiar to astronomers. The SDO is currently in orbit…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Mar 8

Physicists Try to Understand Concussions by Whacking Beakers With Hammers

Concussion research is usually the domain of medical science, but a group of physicists in France decided to tackle the subject in a very… tactile way. They banged a beaker full of water with a hammer, hoping to better understand the forces and motions involved in head trauma. Past research has pointed toward micro-bubbles in…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 8

Test Mission of SpaceX Crew Dragon Ends With Successful Splashdown in the Atlantic

SpaceX’s new commercial astronaut capsule, the Crew Dragon, has completed its first test flight, falling into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday morning. The Crew Dragon splashed down at 8:45 a.m. ET, landing at precisely the anticipated time, give or take a few seconds. Indeed, the Demo-1 mission—an important test of NASA’s revamped commercial crew program—went…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Mar 8

103 New Beetle Species Named After Star Wars Characters, Mythological Beasts, and More

There are more species of beetle than just about anything else on Earth—approximately 400,000 species described, with perhaps a million or more left to catalog. Now, researchers have identified 103 new species of weevil (a tiny variety of beetle), all from a single Indonesian island. Trigonopterus weevils are wee, egg-shaped insects, dimpled like a golf…

Earther Jake Buehler Mar 8

It Took Two Months and Nearly a Million Dollars to Save an Unvaccinated 6-Year-Old From Tetanus

A new case report from the Centers for Disease Control released Thursday starkly highlights the costs of not vaccinating children. It details an unvaccinated 6-year-old boy’s encounter with tetanus—and the hugely expensive, two-month-long effort it took to save his life. Tetanus is caused by the namesake bacteria Clostridium tetani. More accurately, it’s what happens when…

Health Ed Cara Mar 7

How Heavy Is the Milky Way?

By combining data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has come up with the most accurate estimate yet of our galaxy’s mass. From stars, planets, and asteroids through to black holes and invisible dark matter, our galaxy is packed with a lot of stuff. The total mass of all…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Mar 7

Physicists Hunt for Secret to Detangling Hair

A team of scientists are using their training in physics to solve some real-world problems—like the optimal strategy for detangling long hair. The researchers (all men, if you were wondering) from Harvard University set out with three core questions in mind: What is the best combing strategy? Can you use science to describe the act…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 7

CERN Drops Italian Scientist Who Complained About Women in Physics

Last September, Italian physicist Alessandro Strumia gave a bizarre lecture at CERN in which he argued—to an audience of young women scientists—that women are less qualified to conduct physics than men. On Thursday, CERN officially severed its association with Strumia. The workshop, hosted by CERN (the research organization in charge of the Large Hadron Collider),…

Physics & Chemistry Ed Cara Mar 7

Chimpanzee Traditions Are Being Lost Along With Their Habitats

We know chimpanzees as intelligent, emotional creatures that make and use tools, grieve for their dead, and pass down traditions between generations. But less well-known is that different communities of chimps have unique cultures—and that behavioral diversity that is shrinking, according to a new, 10-year study of chimpanzee groups in Africa. The world’s population will…

Biology Sarah Wells Mar 7

The First All-Women Spacewalk Is Finally Happening

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will make history on March 29 by becoming the first all-women team to perform a spacewalk, which they’ll do outside the International Space Station. On July 25, 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to participate in a spacewalk. Now, some 35 years later, history is…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Mar 7

Earth’s Low Orbit Needs Legal Protection Before It Becomes a Cosmic Junkyard

The area immediately above our planet where most of our satellites live might seem like an inexhaustible place, but it’s not. Low Earth orbit is quickly filling up with all sorts of junk, and the potential for a disaster has never been greater. Here’s how laws and international treaties can help—and why we need to…

Conservation George Dvorsky Mar 7

How Is Taking Ketamine for Depression Different From Falling Into a K-Hole?

You’ve probably heard a lot about ketamine this week, thanks to the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve a nasal spray based on the drug as a new depression treatment. But given ketamine’s long-standing reputation as a recreational drug—so notorious that users talk about entering a “K-hole” after taking it—you might have some questions…

Health Ed Cara Mar 7

NASA Captures First-Ever Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets

An air-to-air imaging technology developed by NASA has resulted in the first images ever taken of interacting shockwaves produced by in-flight supersonic jets. The new images, in addition to being beautiful, will help NASA design jets capable of producing gentle rumbles instead of loud sonic booms when breaking the sound barrier. The project, called AirBOS,…

Tech News George Dvorsky Mar 6

Ritual Sacrifice of 137 Children Found at 15th-Century Archaeological Site in Peru

Archaeologists working at a 15th-century site in Peru have unearthed the remains of 137 children and 200 llamas in what’s now considered the largest mass child sacrifice known from the New World—and possibly of all time. The scene is almost impossible to comprehend. The researchers speculate it went something like this: One after one, the…

Human History George Dvorsky Mar 6

Ketamine Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment, but Who Will Be Able to Get It?

This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson’s Spravato, the nasal spray version of a ketamine-like sedative, for certain cases of depression. And the drug is already being heralded as a “game-changer” for depression and suicide treatment. But chief among the major questions the average person might have about the new drug…

Health Ed Cara Mar 6

A Ketamine-Based Nasal Spray Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new kind of depression treatment seen in decades, a nasal spray drug based on the sedative ketamine. The new drug, licensed by Johnson & Johnson’s pharma division, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, isn’t ketamine exactly. It’s derived from esketamine, a chemical sibling of ketamine. It will be sold…

Health Ed Cara Mar 5

FDA Lifts Import Ban on Genetically Modified Salmon That Reach Market Twice as Fast

A Single Person Infected 21 Others With Measles Amid New York’s Worst Outbreak in Decades

I Love Vaccines. Which Ones Can I Get as an Adult?

CDC Preparing Report on E-Scooter Injuries Amid Claims of People Getting Seriously Hurt

NASA Satellite Captures Optical Illusion Where the Moon Appears to Go Backwards

Physicists Try to Understand Concussions by Whacking Beakers With Hammers

Test Mission of SpaceX Crew Dragon Ends With Successful Splashdown in the Atlantic

103 New Beetle Species Named After Star Wars Characters, Mythological Beasts, and More

It Took Two Months and Nearly a Million Dollars to Save an Unvaccinated 6-Year-Old From Tetanus

How Heavy Is the Milky Way?

Physicists Hunt for Secret to Detangling Hair

CERN Drops Italian Scientist Who Complained About Women in Physics

Chimpanzee Traditions Are Being Lost Along With Their Habitats

The First All-Women Spacewalk Is Finally Happening

Earth’s Low Orbit Needs Legal Protection Before It Becomes a Cosmic Junkyard

How Is Taking Ketamine for Depression Different From Falling Into a K-Hole?

NASA Captures First-Ever Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets

Ritual Sacrifice of 137 Children Found at 15th-Century Archaeological Site in Peru

Ketamine Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment, but Who Will Be Able to Get It?

A Ketamine-Based Nasal Spray Is Now an FDA-Approved Depression Treatment

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