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Boeing has now lost $2B on Starliner, but still silent on future plans
Skip to content Boeing has brought back a previous Starliner manager to helm the troubled program. Boeing announced Monday it […]
Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help
A lot of human society requires what’s called a “theory of mind”—the ability to infer the mental state of another […]
Let us spray: River dolphins launch pee streams into air
According to Amazonian folklore, the area’s male river dolphins are shapeshifters (encantade), transforming at night into handsome young men who […]
Greenland’s glaciers are falling apart faster than expected
A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the […]
It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite
The political winds have shifted in Washington, but the FAA hasn’t yet changed its tune on Starship. Liftoff of SpaceX’s […]
To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot
There’s a difference between knowing a word and knowing a concept. Large language models like ChatGPT display conversational skills, but […]
Bogus research is undermining good science, slowing lifesaving research
In 2022, Byrne and colleagues, including two of us, found that suspect genetics research, despite not immediately affecting patient care, […]
Seven cool science stories we almost missed this month
Peruvian mummy tattoos, the wobbly physics of spears and darts, quantum “cat states,” and more. Lasers revealed tattoos on the […]
Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
Clues as to how building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded. This photo of asteroid Bennu is […]