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In a narrow strip of land along the Andes mountain range in central Chile, an Indigenous community has long celebrated the bark of a rare tree for its medicinal properties. Modern science only recently caught up to the tradition, finding the so-called soapbark tree contains potent compounds for boosting theContinue Reading

R.I.P Sony Honda Afeela: Gone Before It Even Launched

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Sony has a history of big hits and misses: The Japanese entertainment juggernaut that invented the Walkman, compact disc (with Philips), camcorder, and PlayStation also was behind the MiniDisc and Betamax formats. We can add now one to the miss pile, as the Sony Afeela electric vehicles it sought to launch in a joint ventureContinue Reading

Science news this week: NASA announces nuclear rocket, space reproduction proves difficult, and why weed gives people the munchies

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NASA announces moon base, Iran war releases staggering carbon emissions, why weed gives people munchies, and Artemis II preps for liftoff. (Image credit: Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images | NASA/Terra/Landsat) This week’s science news was crammed with fascinating revelations about the workings of the human body, leading with the finding that zero gravity means zeroContinue Reading

I Am Artemis: Erik Richards

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Listen to this audio excerpt from Erik Richards, Near Space Network Mission Manager: For Erik Richards, supporting NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon and back is the culmination of a career spent helping spacecraft communicate with Earth.  Like many kids who grew up at the height of the Space Shuttle Program, Richards dreamed of spaceflight — a dream that eventually took him from the remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica toContinue Reading