MaiaSpace Ditches Suborbital Test Flight Plans

If every wild and domesticated bird on Earth were placed on a scale, chickens would account for about 70 percent of the total biomass. Their global population has risen sevenfold since the 1960s to roughly 31 billion, and new research suggests that expansion has created an enormous, unplanned evolutionary experiment inside the birds themselves. Industrial…

On Aug. 12, I get to fulfil a lifelong ambition. I’ll take a flight to Madrid and travel northwest to the city of Valladolid by rail, before striking out for Valoria la Buena — a charming town in central Spain with a population of less than 1,000. There, I’ll bear witness to one of the…

By: Priyanka Sinha | July 13, 2026 | 9 min. read |  Share Through a $500,000 commitment, the Mendoza Family Fund, established in partnership with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, is advancing regenerative stem cell research and expanding treatment access at UHealth’s Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence. On July 9, Fernando Mendoza and his family arrived…

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA has released four spectacular images of deep space from its Chandra X-ray Observatory, each presented in patriotic shades of red, white, and blue. Alongside the images, the agency also unveiled three new sonifications, which transform astronomical observations into sound, offering another way to experience the…

Among the waste products the system clears are proteins called amyloid and tau, the deposits that accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. A single sleepless night measurably raises amyloid levels in the fluid surrounding the brain. Do that repeatedly, year after year, and the implications are troubling. A Swedish study by researchers…

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