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The Viking 1 lander resting on the rocky surface of the Martian plain known as Chryse Planitia.

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago

Fifty years ago, NASA achieved a milestone in planetary exploration when the Viking 1 lander touched down on M…

A bald eagle is monitored by staff at the Ojai Raptor Center after a rescue operation near Big Bear Lake.

OJAI RAPTOR CENTER

Wildlife center caring for Jackie the bald eagle receives tens of thousands of dollars in donations

The Ojai Raptor Center in Ventura County is seeing an outpouring of support after admitting Jackie, the famous…

The 1956 telegram from Reines and Cowan to Wolfgang Pauli announcing the definitive detection of the neutrino.

The puzzle of neutrinos, seventy years on – Home

Seventy years ago, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines confirmed the existence of the neutrino. This breakthrough validated a theory proposed by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930. Pauli suggested that a neutral, lightweight particle was responsible for the energy appearing to vanish…

Gene variant linked to risk of aggressive prostate cancer

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the University of British Columbia have identified a link between a speci…

OSAKA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Scientists Find a Way Around a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat

Physicists have identified a method to bypass Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, a principle that has stood for 160 years. This law tradi…

SpaceX-Northrop Grumman launch today from Cape Canaveral: Everything to know

A Northrop Grumman spacecraft is scheduled to launch today from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The mission, known as MRV-MEP, focuses o…

Central Valley farmers reluctantly turn to solar as water supplies dry up

California’s Central Valley faces a difficult transition as farmers replace crops with solar panels. Climate change, persistent droughts, an…

Environment

Farmer Todd Tracy stands near his pistachio trees in Buttonwillow where land is being converted into a solar farm.

Central Valley farmers reluctantly turn to solar as water supplies dry up

California’s Central Valley faces a difficult transition as farmers replace crops with solar panels. Climate change, persistent droughts, an…

Exposed banks of Green Mountain Reservoir as the Blue River flows through a low water level due to extreme drought.

Denver Water’s 1.5 million customers are falling way short of drought-cutting goals

Denver Water set a goal to cut water usage by 20% this year to combat the impacts of a historic drought. Despi…

A wooden boardwalk leads to a beach with a sign marked Sea turtle nesting season in a tropical habitat.

It’s no longer illegal to destroy the one thing endangered species need most to survive

The Trump administration recently finalized a rule that changes the definition of harm under the Endangered Sp…

Digital security gate screen requiring human verification to access a NewsNation web article.

Earth already far over capacity, population study finds

The recent accessibility error reported on the NewsNation website highlights a common hurdle for readers attem…

Space

The Viking 1 lander resting on the rocky surface of the Martian plain known as Chryse Planitia.

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago

Fifty years ago, NASA achieved a milestone in planetary exploration when the Viking 1 lander touched down on Martian soil. Launched in Augus…

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX-Northrop Grumman launch today from Cape Canaveral: Everything to know

A Northrop Grumman spacecraft is scheduled to launch today from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The mission, known as MRV-MEP, focuses o…

Physics

The 1956 telegram from Reines and Cowan to Wolfgang Pauli announcing the definitive detection of the neutrino.

The puzzle of neutrinos, seventy years on – Home

Seventy years ago, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines confirmed the existence of the neutrino. This b…

A conceptual diagram of a metagrating device designed to control infrared light and thermal radiation patterns.

OSAKA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Scientists Find a Way Around a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat

Physicists have identified a method to bypass Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, a principle that has stood…

A scientist uses a personal laptop to visualize complex 3D quantum lattice structures and qubit interactions.

FLATIRONINSTITUTE

An ordinary laptop solved a problem thought to require a quantum computer

Physicists at the Flatiron Institute and Boston University have achieved a breakthrough that challenges the cu…

Genetics

Dr. Colin Pritchard working in the cancer molecular diagnostics research lab at UW Medicine.

Gene variant linked to risk of aggressive prostate cancer

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Universit…

A scientific diagram showing the Tractor-Mix data pipeline steps including phasing, local ancestry inference, and GMMAT null models.

NATURE GENETICS

Extending genome-wide association studies to admixed cohorts with high degrees of relatedness

Admixed populations represent a massive share of the human population, yet these…

Benjamin Oakes, CEO of Scribe Therapeutics, presents the company's clinical pipeline during a biotech investor conference.

Scribe aims for $96M IPO to fund lipid-lowering genetic meds

Scribe Therapeutics is moving forward with its plan to go public on the Nasdaq. …

A Manhattan plot visualizes genetic risk loci across chromosomes for borderline personality disorder research.

Genome-wide association analyses of borderline personality disorder identify 11 loci and highlight shared risk with mental and somatic disorders

Researchers have identified 11 genetic risk loci for borderline personality diso…

Wildlife

A bald eagle is monitored by staff at the Ojai Raptor Center after a rescue operation near Big Bear Lake.

OJAI RAPTOR CENTER

Wildlife center caring for Jackie the bald eagle receives tens of thousands of dollars in donations

The Ojai Raptor Center in Ventura County is seeing an outpouring of support after admitting Jackie, the famous…

A bald eagle perched on a branch near the Big Bear Lake nest camera.

BIG BEAR VALLEY

Bald eagle believed to be Big Bear’s Jackie recovering after suffering injuries in attack

A bald eagle, widely believed to be the famous Jackie from the Big Bear nest cam, is currently undergoing trea…

A black bear walks along a sidewalk in downtown Frederick near parked cars and local businesses on a weekend night.

Bear Spotted Roaming Downtown Frederick

Downtown Frederick residents experienced an unusual Saturday night when a black bear wandered through the city…