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Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one…

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. These medications are mirror-image versions of the molecules your body uses to…

This is the moment a SpaceX capsule left the International Space Station on an emergency return flight to Earth prompted by a medical issue afflicting one…

new video loaded: Four Astronauts Splash Down on Earth After Early ReturntranscriptBacktranscriptFour Astronauts Splash Down on Earth After Early ReturnTwo American astronauts and others from Japan…

January 15, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAstronauts Return to Earth in First ISS Medical EvacuationNASA chief Jared Isaacman on Thursday said the experience…

Four crew members have left the International Space Station (ISS) and are heading back to Earth after a medical issue prompted their mission to be cut…

January 13, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm2025 Wasn’t the Hottest Year on Record. Earth Is Still Barreling to the Climate BrinkGlobal warming surpassed…

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 12 January 2026 Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters.

The world is warming fast – and our options to avoid catastrophic harm are narrowing. 2024 was the first full year more than 1.5C hotter than…

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and science educator who has worked on a number of instruments that are revolutionising our view of the cosmos,…