2019 was a tough year for the aerospace industry — a year when a control system flaw caused the second catastrophic crash of a 737 MAX jet and sparked a worldwide grounding of Boeing's fastest-selling plane. Nine months after the Ethiopian Airlines crash, which killed 157 people, the 737 MAX is still grounded. Boeing's CEO and the head of its commercial airplanes unit have been replaced,...

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One of the most important discoveries of the 2010s will help us reshape our view of the...

Since Julius Caesar ruled that New Year began on January 1 in 46BC, and urged subjects to commit to personal improvement, resolutions have been synonymous with the turning of the...

Sometimes it happens in middle school, sometimes in high school. The frogs are slimy and greenish-grey, and they stink because they're pickled in formaldehyde. One Florida high school recently tried to eliminate the gross-out factor by using fake, yet highly realistic,...

New UK research suggests that people who regularly sleep too little or too much are more likely to have pulmonary fibrosis, compared to those who sleep the recommended seven hours a night. The study, by researchers at the University of Manchester, looked at 500,074 participants taking part in the long-term UK Biobank study, which includes genomic data on more than half a million UK residents....

Chinese researcher He Jiankui, who stirred up a global controversy last year when he said his experiment produced twin baby girls with gene-edited traits, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $430,000 fine, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported today. He tried to show that genes could be edited to reduce vulnerability to the HIV virus, but outside experts voiced...

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What will people remember about the year 2019 in the year 3019? Just as they're likely to recall 1969 as the year humans first walked on the moon, they might well hold up the first portrait of a black hole as this year's most memorable achievement. By that measure, there's little question that the Event Horizon Telescope's radio view of M87's supermassive black hole, 55 million...

Every day for the next six weeks, NASA astronaut Christina Koch will be setting a new women's record for continuous time in space. Koch's extended stint on the International Space Station follows up on astronaut Scott Kelly's "Year in Space" mission in 2015-2016, and is similarly aimed at studying the health effects of long-duration spaceflight. She arrived in March, and...

Bushfires have decimated Australia's koalas. One hospital in New South Wales is doing all it can to save...

A creature called Caveasphaera lived in China 609 million years ago, and it left behind fossils that resemble tiny grains of sand. But as innocuous as those fossils appear, they may speak volumes about our own evolutionary history.Under a microscope, the fossils turn out to be clusters of hundreds or thousands of cells. Were they on their way to developing into adult bodies? On Wednesday, a team...

Until now, the earliest known fossil louse dated back 44 million years, about 22 million years after the age of dinosaurs had ended. The way parasites evolve closely in step with their targets can reveal details about their hosts that are otherwise invisible in the fossil record. Based on comparisons with previously unearthed fossils, the plumes came from dinosaurs, not birds, and were likely...

Trinity Church featured prominently in the 2004 film "National Treasure." While it doesn't hide any treasure, an archivist reveals its real...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot zips around 2.4 times faster than Earth, while Venus spins so slowly you can't tell it's moving...

Koch is expected to spend a total of 328 days, or nearly 11 months, on board the space station before returning to Earth. Missions are typically six months, but NASA announced in April that it was extending her mission until February. The U.S. record for longest space flight is 340 days set by Scott Kelly in...

A 386,000-square-mile chunk of the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand is 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than average in what could be a marine heat...

Privacy-focused designers, academics, and activists have designed wearable accessories and clothes meant to thwart facial recognition...

Millions of pieces of microplastic are raining down on London each day, a new study...

It's basically clinical death to save trauma...

The Long March 5 rocket was plagued with problems during its debut. But after years of revisions, China showed its redesigned launcher...

A US Geological Survey list of volcano threats has been updated for the first time since 2005. California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii are at...

Decades ago, academics, futurists and government agencies predicted what would happen by the year 2020. Here's what...

'This is the farming of the future': the rise of hydroponic food labsNeeding no soil or sun, an underground farm in Liverpool challenges traditional...