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NASA has ended the attempt to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after faults on the commercial servicing spacecraft LINK made a capture unsafe, but the mission will still test selected rendezvous capabilities.
New detections of Heartland and Bourbon viruses in ticks underline a widening surveillance challenge, although confirmed human illness remains rare in the United States.
A newly identified star orbiting Sagittarius A* may offer astronomers their best practical opportunity yet to measure the spin of the Milky Way’s central black hole directly.
A first-in-human trial suggests that a freeze-dried tetanus-diphtheria booster can remain stable at room temperature, but larger studies and regulatory review are still required before it can change vaccination programmes.
The celebrated solar-neutrino mystery was resolved in 2001, but new measurements are refining the particle physics that emerged from that breakthrough.
A review of the underlying research shows that the much-circulated claim needs an important correction: the female mouse clone was produced from a male donor’s testicular support cell, not from blood.
A small preprint links recent COVID-19 vaccination before glioblastoma surgery to longer survival, but it cannot yet show that vaccination caused the difference.
Recent disputes over topological qubits show that quantum computing needs stronger norms for data sharing, independent replication and comparable performance evidence.
Feral hog eradication is achievable in contained places, but biology, geography and fragmented land ownership make nationwide elimination a far harder proposition than local control.
In 1638, Galileo Galilei used geometry and the strength of materials to show why an enormous person could not simply be an enlarged human being.
A high-resolution sediment record from Kenya’s Turkana Basin suggests that stronger ancient monsoons increased vegetation fuel and wildfire activity, creating rapidly changing habitats for early hominins.
A placebo-controlled trial suggests that bedtime dronabinol can reduce PTSD-related nightmares, but it does not yet establish THC as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder as a whole.
