The Pentagon has granted Lockheed Martin a $4.9 billion contract to build three missile-warning satellites for the…
It’s official. In the latest of the Trump administration’s last-minute assaults on regulatory policy, the…
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The Food and Drug Administration appears to have rejected any alternative strategy for the distribution of covid-19…
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Over the course of 2020, a patchwork of circles were dug out from below the topsoil of Tye Green, Cressing in…
Two new missions to explore the Sun and Earth’s auroras could vastly improve our understanding of the complex…
Not content to keep things simple or easy, SpaceX plans to catch its upcoming Super Heavy booster rockets at the…
The U.S. federal government is scrambling to increase the limited supply of covid-19 vaccines. A new proposal…
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Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a…
In January 2020, a second-floor lab at Northwestern University was filled with the mild-mannered clacking of three…
[Yelling into a cavernous chamber as supernovae explode in the dark and a gust of hot wind comes whistling through] S…
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The idea of rounding up Gizmodo’s most-read posts for the year 2020 was bad from the start. But if you take a long…
New research out today looks to bring us closer to understanding how covid-19 can cause brain damage. The study…
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Over the past 24 hours, health officials in Colorado have reported finding two suspected cases of covid-19 caused by…
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Before its demise at the explosive hands of Mt. Vesuvius, Pompeii was a bustling town with a strong agricultural…
The newest dietary guidelines from the U.S. federal government are out, and there are some surprising omissions.…
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Experts with the World Health Organization issued a somber warning on Monday: The next pandemic to strike humanity…
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A man’s habit of hunting feral pigs exposed him to a rare brain infection, doctors in Florida say. In a recent case…
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When the universe was a fledgling billion years old, a galaxy spewed a ginormous, fast-moving jet of radiation and…
Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s…
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This past autumn, people all across the U.S. southwest were finding an astounding number of dead birds littered…
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