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Tips for Puking in Microgravity and Staying Healthy in...
To avoid medical debacles in orbit, don’t forget your quarantine or daily trips to the ISS’s zero-g gym.
The Power of Wrong Answers in Science Education
The best way to teach physics? Rig your experiments to confound students’ predictions.
Ancestry Branches Out Into Genetic Health Screening
AncestryHealth offers a test for hereditary conditions such as breast cancer or heart disease, building on the company’s tools for...
A Trove of Mouse Data Points Toward Brain-Computer Interfaces
Some 850 gigabytes of mouse brain data just got released. That's great for reading the minds of mice now, and for building brain-controlled...
Robot Rocket Printers, 'Fornite' Disappears, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
How Eliud Kipchoge Pulled Off His Epic, Sub-2-Hour Marathon
Sports physiologist Michael Joyner breaks down what it takes to run a marathon in less than two hours—and how it could happen again.
Listen to an Underwater Volcano Burp 750-Foot Bubbles
Microphones catch a submarine vent firing uberbubbles that floated to the surface and formed massive water domes.
Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets
Relativity Space may have the biggest metal 3D printers in the world, and they're cranking out parts to reinvent the rocket industry...
Is the Equal Sign Overrated? Mathematicians Hash It Out
Many of them avoid the equal sign, hoping to promote a looser relationship of “equivalence” instead. It's been controversial.
Be Master of the Midway—With Physics\!
Don’t be a chump, study angular momentum(p).