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For 18 months, the Trump administration has been accused by science advocates of shredding a social contract between academic researchers and the federal government that made the United States the world’s most powerful engine of discovery. Now it’s proposing a way to rebuild American science.  Taking inspiration from “Science — The Endless Frontier,” a 1945 manifesto…

Molecules released in the breath can signal whether the body is burning fat.Credit: Mascot/Getty A handheld breath test can accurately measure when the body is burning fat in real time1. The device could be used by people trying to manage weight loss without them having to wait weeks to see a shift on the scales,…

NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pushed it past its intended limits. The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing (SWEET-15)…

Dr Suzanne Bell, an organizational psychologist, leads the Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center. What’s your morning routine? My morning time is very important to me. I get up without an alarm by 5am every day, and from 5 to 7.15 I sit and have my morning latte. It’s a focused…

Event Technology We’re Excited About This Month To extend real-time translation and captions beyond events into everyday work Wordly has launched Workspaces, a new expansion of its AI translation platform that lets organizations deliver live translation and captions consistently across conferences, keynotes, workshops, and day-to-day business operations. Designed as a unified, enterprise-ready solution, Workspaces brings…

Dark matter has long been one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. It cannot be seen or touched, yet its gravitational influence helps shape galaxies and the large scale structure of the universe. For decades, scientists have relied on the “cold dark matter” model to explain how galaxies formed and evolved. But as telescopes and observations have…