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When Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) fashioned a small army of dragonriders out of Targaryen bastards in House of the Dragon Season 2, one particular “Dragonseed” was missing in action. Some fans took umbrage with the absence of Nettles, a favorite from George R. R. Martin’s original book, Fire & Blood, and a crucial cog in…

When China tightened export licences on seven rare-earth elements in April 2025, Western governments responded in the same way as they have to every other critical-minerals shock of the past five years. The European Union accelerated the issuing of extraction permits under the Critical Raw Materials Act. The United States expanded subsidies for domestic refining…

Adopting artificial intelligence tools to analyze data and model outcomes has a huge impact on the career prospects of young scientists, significantly increasing their chances of rising to positions of influence in their fields, according to a new study. But that boon for individual researchers appears to be coming at a broader cost to science….

SpaceX’s Starship — the rocket NASA is counting on to land astronauts on the Moon — is lifting off tonight on its thirteenth test flight. But the engineering problems Starship cannot solve on its own are the ones 37 American companies just got recruited to crack, according to Starship Flight 13 launch details. NASA selected…

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly mapped the magnetic field surrounding an unusual “lighthouse” pulsar, revealing an invisible cosmic highway that channels particles blasted from the rapidly spinning stellar remnant. Using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, researchers measured the magnetic field around the pulsar PSR J1101−6101 — nicknamed the “Lighthouse” — and…

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, the race to the Moon is on. While the Apollo 11 astronauts were still on the surface of the Moon, Luna 15 crashed into a lunar mountain. Credit: NASA On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft seen as a…