By Tina Hesman Saey Will Ungerer isn’t a typical fourth-grader. The 10-year-old from Midlothian, Va., plays tag with his friends and swims in the ocean. “I […]
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Humans haven’t set foot on the moon in 50 years. That may soon change
By James R. Riordon Project Apollo ended this week. The last moon men … returned to Earth … and splashed down on a target in the […]
The first U.S. lunar lander since 1972 touches down on the moon
By Christopher Crockett and Adam Mann It marks the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since NASA’s Apollo 17. After a nail-biting descent, the United States […]
How scientists reached nuclear fusion ‘ignition’ for the first time
By Emily Conover One of nuclear fusion’s biggest advances wouldn’t have happened without some impeccable scientific artistry. In December 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]
Plant-powered planes may be no pipe dream
By TEREZA PULTAROVA EU researchers are seeking to expand supplies of clean aviation fuels by producing more from agricultural sources. Professor David Chiaramonti is looking down […]