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NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

KENNETH CHANG

A rescue mission will soon be underway for NASA’s Swift telescope.

Extreme heat is setting in for July 4. Here’s what to know

A prolonged, intense heat wave will make temperatures feel as hot as 115 degrees Fahrenheit in the eastern U.S. this week

How to spot an AI-generated face, according to science

Training people to pay attention to the right visual cues nearly doubled how accurately they could spot AI-generated faces

Why botulism keeps cropping up in infant formula

The toxin behind two outbreaks in seven months is hard to find—and just a handful of labs are equipped to look for it at all

Chaotic pigeons are helping redefine what we know about learning

Pigeons seem to defy a century-old psychology law about how rewards and consequences help us learn

Stunning new image of the Milky Way reveals its glittering heart

This brilliant new image, taken by Europe's Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be possible with NASA's upcoming Roman telescope

London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens

As Kew Botanic Gardens completes a scan of its collections, AI tools could help in the fight against biodiversity loss

China’s LineShine supercomputer tops global rankings with almost 2 quadrillion calculations per second

The speedy machine displaces the U.S.'s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers

AI finds hidden ECG signal that predicts sudden cardiac death risk

A new model flags people at high risk of sudden cardiac death from a routine ECG—and reveals a warning sign in the heart's electrical activity

What is a Lagrangian used for in physics?

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

New York City could see its hottest weather in more than a decade

Temperatures in New York's Central Park haven't surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit since 2012; but that may be about to change

N.I.H. Announces World’s Largest Integrated Health Database

EMILY BAUMGAERTNER NUNN

It contains more than half a million people’s genomes, paired with clinical records and wearable tech data. That gives researchers unmatched power to study both diseases and treatments.

NASA announces Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Firefly to build lunar landers for a future moon base

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface

The Vera Rubin Telescope Begins Surveying Our Cosmos

KATRINA MILLER

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is beginning the widest, deepest survey yet of the southern sky.

Curiosity, Perseverance and Now Promise? NASA May Send a Mars Rover to the Moon.

KENNETH CHANG

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well as a soccer ball.