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Science​Researchers are exploring the connection between oral health and joint health—with surprising results. Published April 13, 2023 7 min read Arthritis has plagued humanity for millennia. More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates, “the father of Western medicine,” weighed in on a possible cause. He recognized a connection between oral infection and joint issues. He suggested...

Chinese commercial launch startup iSpace has completed its second successful flight of its Hyperbola 1 solid rocket. The fifth Hyperbola 1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:00 a.m. EDT (0400 GMT, 12:00 p.m. Beijing time) on Friday (April 7).  The four-stage solid rocket successfully achieved orbit but...

India will soon break ground on a detector that will hunt for tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time. On April 6, the Indian Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved 26 billion rupees ($318 million) to start construction of a new gravitational wave observatory in the western state of Maharashtra. The observatory,...

Farmer Barry Evans drops dusty soil from a cotton crop he shredded and planted over with wheat, Oct. 3, 2022, in Kress, Texas. A new study finds that climate change is making droughts faster and more furious — and especially one fast-moving kind of drought that can take farmers by surprise. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay,...

West Virginia University researchers are studying how high school seniors and college students can utilize ChatGPT to learn how to code, while recognizing the potential shortcomings of the AI-powered chatbot. Credit: WVU Photo/Alyssa Reeves West Virginia University researchers are preparing high school seniors and college students to harness the power of ChatGPT, the popular artificial...

Credit: Nick McCaffrey Unearthed video footage from 2019 shows a pilot whale expelling its placenta in Yell Sound, Shetland. Drone pilot Nick McCaffrey didn’t realize how unique his footage was until he shared it with Emily Hague, a marine mammal researcher in Heriot-Watt’s Marine Spatial Analysis Group. Hague and McCaffrey have now published the footage...

Published April 12, 2023 30 min read In Kosovo, a very young country of war-scarred survivors, everyone has a story that is almost too painful to recount—except here they are, alive to tell it, and insistent that the world listen. So it is that in the parliament building in the capital city of Pristina, I step into...

If you buy through affiliate links, we may receive a commission, helping support our product testing. Learn more. If anyone had said that being verified on a social media platform would be a paid feature back in 2022, I wouldn’t have been surprised. I also would have thought that was really stupid. Apparently, LinkedIn thinks...

Home News Spaceflight An illustration of a object breaking up in Earth’s orbit. (Image credit: European Space Agency) The fast-growing space debris issue is top of mind at a new space-focused division of the U.S. government. “Satellite and orbital debris rules” will be one of the primary responsibilities of the newly created Space Bureau of...

The extraordinary cache of recent and highly sensitive U.S. intelligence documents leaked online offers a window into the U.S.-Ukraine relationship that has been forged by more than a year of war. And not just any war, but one that has morphed into the front lines of what the Biden administration portrays as a defining battle...