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Artemis II mission: NASA is set to reveal the four astronauts selected for its Artemis III mission tonight, but the announcement carries more weight than a routine crew assignment. While most searches for Artemis-III astronauts point toward a long-awaited Moon landing crew, the reality being presented now is more complex. Artemis III is increasingly being…

Astronomers don’t treat every “close approach” headline the same way the public does. On June 9, two near-Earth objects, 2026 LD and 2026 KM3, are being tracked as they pass Earth at distances measured in millions of kilometres. On paper, they’re described as “aeroplane-sized,” a comparison that tends to amplify concern. But in orbital mechanics…

For decades, the Tasmanian tiger was portrayed as Australia’s most feared livestock predator. Farmers blamed it for dead sheep, newspapers described it as a menace to agriculture, and the Tasmanian government eventually paid cash rewards for its destruction. By the time the last known thylacine died at Hobart Zoo in September 1936, the species had…

The path from a medical college in New Delhi to one of the most prestigious academic appointments in American medicine is rarely straightforward. Ravi Vij followed that journey while building a career dedicated to understanding and treating blood cancers. The Indian-origin physician-scientist was recently named the inaugural Jeffrey S. and Prue H. Gershman Distinguished Professor…

The microscopic yeast that could survive in association with a 5,300-year-old body feels unlikely, almost speculative. Yet the frozen remains of Ötzi, the Copper Age “Iceman” preserved in the Alps and housed in a controlled museum chamber in northern Italy, have provided scientists with an unexpected testing ground for that possibility. Over decades of study,…

Marc Aaronson (Image source: researchgate.net) There are certain quotes that make people pause because they seem to challenge a habit that most of us have. This quote by Marc Aaronson is one of them. It does not offer comfort. It does not suggest a careful plan. Instead, it asks readers to think about how much…

A commuter steps off a bus in midday heat, phone already at 12 percent, and no wall socket in sight. The scene is familiar in dense cities where charging infrastructure hasn’t kept up with device dependence. In that gap between mobility and power demand sits an idea that feels almost obvious once you see it:…

Image: The Nature Conservatory Since ancient times, communities living along the eastern parts of Indonesia have been employing a traditional system referred to as sasi in order to preserve the ocean waters on which they depended for their survival. Even before marine protection systems were invented and even before fishing quotas were established through conservation…

PC: The James Dyson Award At a bus stop in a midsummer European city, heat does not arrive as a single spike. People wait in that trapped heat, often without shade or airflow, relying on nothing more than chance positioning or a passing breeze. This precise moment of exposure was when a pair of industrial…

Inside the narrow passages of Bàsura Cave in northwestern Italy, darkness is not just the absence of light. It is a physical constraint that shapes how bodies move, pause, and orient themselves. Around 14,400 years ago, a small group of Epigravettian hunter-gatherers entered this environment with a canid moving alongside them, leaving behind footprints that…