
Jupiter-bound spacecraft Juice to fly by Earth Monday
To get to the outer solar system, the Juice spacecraft needs an assist from Earth’s gravity—and it’s going to be taking pictures along the way

Jupiter-bound spacecraft Juice to fly by Earth Monday
To get to the outer solar system, the Juice spacecraft needs an assist from Earth’s gravity—and it’s going to be taking pictures along the way

What’s the point of the interstellar Fermi Explorer mission?
Fermi Explorer, a proposed low-cost private mission to Alpha Centauri, seeks to address a question that’s already been answered

Vox’s Unexplainable and Scientific American take on dark matter, uncertainty and the unknowable
What if the universe’s biggest mystery has no answer?

Trump’s FDA nominee Heidi Overton affirms MMR vaccine and mifepristone are safe at crucial Senate hearing
Heidi Overton also said at the hearing on Thursday that Tylenol does not cause autism

OpenAI’s agent hacking Australia is a warning for governments everywhere
In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government health care records during an internal test

Diesel fuel prices are rising—chemistry can help explain why
Diesel prices have almost doubled over the past year, spelling trouble for farmers, truckers and the entire U.S. economy

AI solves 79-year-old mathematical mystery
Can a six-dimensional sphere be described using imaginary numbers? For decades, experts puzzled over this question. Now an AI has apparently answered it

America’s AI giants want safety controls. China’s open models complicate that
With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards

Blood test for multiple cancers clears crucial hurdle on track to FDA approval
If approved, the test could help catch cancers early—but more research is still needed, experts say

See the Taurids light up the fall sky with brilliant shooting stars
Lasting from mid-September until mid-November, the Taurid meteor showers are among the longest of the year

Watch a robot dog run a marathon faster than the average human
The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery charge

Is football too dangerous for kids’ brains?
A new study found that one in four professional football players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE—a degenerative brain disease—but what about children who play these sports?