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Get Ready for Liftoff: Space Shuttle Endeavour’s New Exhibit Opens to the Public This Year - Gizmodo
The retired space shuttle will look launch-ready at its new home in California.
Hobbit-like human relatives may have been on a less advanced evolutionary path - CNN
Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey taken down by Komodo dragons.
Mammals use the same underlying system—preserved through evolution—to process smells - Phys.org
Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it’s found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe. New research from Northwestern University has found that, li…
A popular climate fix could accidentally trigger massive changes to global weather - ScienceDaily
A new study found that not all geoengineering ideas are created equal. Brightening marine clouds over the eastern Pacific could dramatically weaken the El Niño cycle, triggering major changes to global weather patterns, while stratospheric aerosol injection l…
Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope that’s falling back to Earth - AP News
A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth. Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link spacecraft on Friday from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The Pegasus rocket bla…
Delayed molecular aging, preservation of energy metabolism and enhanced exercise response in exercise-trained human muscle - Nature
Exercise has an important role in healthy aging, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here the authors consider age, physical function and acute exercise in the context of the multiomics of human skeletal muscle, linking fitnes…