Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say
"The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample."...
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"The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample."...
Solar system comets are often at their brightest as they draw close to the sun...
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-12-einstein-probe-ray-flare-nearby.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471784 Points: 4 # Comments: 1...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed t...
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542982 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
Rippling's CPO said he prefers to understaff than overstaff all his projects. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Rippling's product chief Matt MacInnis says he deli...
Nature, Published online: 23 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10044-8 Author Correction: Rolling back human pluripotent stem cells to an eight-cell embryo-like stage...
Bad news for those hoping interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft as technosignature search turns up empty....
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispers—and this year, it heard the most energeti...
As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: space debris....
While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty....
Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter. (Image credit: Institut Pasteur-S...
Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09864-5 Fermionic currents of opposing chirality can be spatially filtered without the need for a magnetic field using the quantum ge...
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would l...
📋 Key Facts ✓ New research suggests complex cognitive challenges slow neural aging by years. ✓ Strategy video games like StarCraft II a...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The quiz tests cosmic eye by matching dazzling nebula images to names. ✓ Focuses on stunning space structures in the scie...
I (17y/o) have been developing a rocket launch simulation that allows the user to explore what it's like launching a rocket from earth and putting it into orbit. This idea originally started as an edu...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Neuroscience researcher Mia Soviero uses a morning routine to boost her mood. ✓ The routine increases dopamine levels for...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Weather set to turn colder during Christmas week in the UK. ✓ White Christmas unlikely for most areas. ✓ ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ A bevy of comets were skywatching highlights in 2025. ✓ A "blood moon" total lunar eclipse occurred as a major ...