Aurora chaser catches a fox basking in the glow of Finland's legendary 'fox fires' (photos)
A magical encounter in northern Finland blends ancient folklore, swirling auroras and an unexpectedly curious fox....
A magical encounter in northern Finland blends ancient folklore, swirling auroras and an unexpectedly curious fox....
Elon Musk's Neuralink startup develops brain-chip implants. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is planning to ramp up production of his Neuralink brain chips in 2026. Neuralink develops...
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Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming coronal mass ejection could disrupt Earth's magnetic field and trigger geomagnetic storm conditions....
I made a web game inspired by Geoguessr and Wordle, where you get shown a 3D model of a random human protein each day, and you have to triangulate its gene name using similarity clues. My background i...
An HHS official says the agency has "frozen all child care payments" to the state of Minnesota after allegations of fraudulent day care centers there....
Russia's Defence Ministry released the first images of an intermediate-range weapon entering service. Analysts identified a former airfield near the Russian border as a likely site....
An online video has gone viral showing 93-year-old Dr. Marshall Lindheimer, who has dementia, hearing about his groundbreaking research to treat and diagnose the pregnancy condition of preeclampsia....
In an unprecedented move, NASA will bring four astronauts – including two Americans – home early from their mission at the International Space Station because of a medical issue with a crew member....
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Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
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Hi HN, I’m a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasing...
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Jared Isaacman said the US will return to the moon under Trump's presidency. NASA/Bill Ingalls Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman is the 15th administrator of NASA. Isaacman has led and flown on two Space...