Technology
NASA Prepares Three August Spacewalks Outside the ISS
NASA has scheduled three U.S. spacewalks for August, turning routine-looking maintenance into a reminder of the planning behind an orbital laboratory.
Jul 28, 2026
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Health
Nasal Rinsing Works, and the Water You Use Can Kill You
Saline nasal irrigation has reasonable evidence behind it for sinus symptoms. It also has a rare, almost uniformly fatal complication, and avoiding it requires one specific instruction that most people have never been given.
Sep 4, 2026
Lifestyle
Houseplants Do Not Purify Your Air, and the Real Reason to Keep Them Is Better Than the Myth
A 1989 NASA experiment in sealed chambers became the most repeated claim in interior décor. In an actual room, ventilation removes pollutants far faster than plants can, and you would need an implausible indoor forest to compete.
Aug 21, 2026
Technology
Saturn Has Grown a Ten-Sided Storm at Its South Pole, and Nobody Saw It Start
Hubble has confirmed a decagon riding a jet stream around Saturn's south pole, each side longer than Earth is wide. The northern hexagon has been there for forty years. This one was not there in 2022.
Sep 6, 2026
Technology
The Telescope Launching This Month Sees a Patch of Sky a Hundred Times Wider Than Hubble's
Nancy Grace Roman is not a bigger Webb. It is a survey instrument, built to photograph enormous areas of sky at Hubble-class sharpness, and its value is in the sheer volume of what it will record.
Aug 21, 2026
Technology
Andromeda Is Slowly Winding Down Its Star-Making Era
Hubble observations show star formation across Andromeda has declined for roughly 500 million years, offering a detailed preview of how a large spiral galaxy changes with age.
Aug 1, 2026
Technology
Falcon's 700th Flight, Europe's Plant-Fluorescence Satellite, and Djibouti Signs the Artemis Accords: A Weekend in Orbit
SpaceX completed SES's medium-orbit constellation on a booster flying for the twenty-ninth time. Vega-C put FLEX, the first satellite built to watch photosynthesis, into orbit with Sentinel-3C. And a Red Sea state became the seventy-second signatory.
Sep 15, 2026
Technology
China Is Sending a Lander, a Rover and a Hopper to the Lunar South Pole on Monday
Chang'e 7 targets the one part of the Moon where ice may have sat undisturbed for billions of years, in craters the sun has never reached. The hopper is the part nobody has tried before.
Aug 21, 2026
Health
Sleep Economy: Tracking, Hacking, Buying Rest
The sleep industry hits $585 billion as Americans invest in mattresses, trackers, and supplements to optimize rest. But obsessing over sleep data might actually backfire.
Feb 15, 2024
Nutrition
Histamine Intolerance: Popular Online, Thin on Evidence
It has become one of the most searched explanations for unexplained symptoms. The mechanism is plausible, the tests being sold are not validated, and the diet is more restrictive than almost any other.
Aug 7, 2026
Technology
They Have Photographed the Star Hiding Inside Betelgeuse, and They Still Are Not Certain It Is There
The clearest picture yet of Betelgeuse B was taken with the Very Large Telescope. The caveat almost all the coverage dropped is the astronomer's own: he cannot be sure until he sees it again on the other side of the star, a year from now.
Aug 28, 2026
Health
High Blood Sugar Damages You Over Decades. Low Blood Sugar Can Do It Before Lunch
Diabetes care is organised around bringing numbers down, which makes it easy to forget that the acute danger points the other way. The ADA defines three levels of hypoglycaemia, and the third one requires another person.
Aug 6, 2026
Diving
Deep Dive Dubai: 60 Metres of Water and No Weather at All
The world's deepest pool holds 14 million litres at a constant 30C, with a sunken city at the bottom. What it removes from diving turns out to be the interesting part.
Aug 6, 2026
