The Moon is Calling Us Home

Data-center debate has one winning argument: sheer panic — and it will backfire

Spaceflight Nears Its Steamship Era

Thymus-derived hormone may help suppress age-related inflammation

Webb Telescope Reveals How Supermassive Black Holes Keep Feeding Themselves Thanks to Gas Recycling

A British Psychiatrist Debunks an American Racial Myth

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Trump Fashions a Trade Policy for the AI Age

Trump Target Acquired: Pickaxe Mountain

Mamdani Can’t Arrest Netanyahu

Scientists discover mystery molecule on Pluto and Saturn's moon Titan: 'We cannot say what it is'

Four astronauts, 3 spacecraft, 2 weeks in orbit: Artemis III will be NASA's most complicated mission ever

NASA’s nuclear Mars mission to cost over $2 billion

What France Gets Wrong About Air Conditioning

How Ukraine’s Battlefield Data Is Shaping the Future of Warfare

The best self-driving stock is…

A Man With Paralysis Has Regained Feeling and Movement in His Hands After an Experimental Brain Implant

Astronomers Determine that Exoplanets Around Barnard's Star are Extremely Uninhabitable

Sleep Scientists Favor Year-Round Standard Time

Greek Fire, Which Burned on Water, Was the Most Devastating Weapon in the Eastern Roman Empire. But What Was It?

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Turned a Mars Flyby Into a Stunning Tour of the Red Planet

China Plans to Smash Into an Asteroid at 20,000 MPH to Test Their Planetary Defense

If Britain Has a New Prime Minister, It’s a Day Ending in Y

Can We Kill You for Your Organs, Please?

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

Big Government Inevitably Invites Corruption

Meet the New Bargain Patriot Missile

Maine Democrats Go Left Again

New York to Catholic Nuns: Help Kill Suicidal People or No Hospice for You

Mauritius becomes 70th nation to sign the Artemis Accords

The second-greatest thing I ever saw was the moon landing

A NASA crew study found that tidiness and everyday consideration are strongly linked to cohesion when missions last from 45 to 240 days

Minnesota lawmakers consider lifting ban on new nuclear power plants

Trump Warns Against Communism

Is intelligence related to happiness?

This glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol

Nickel Fingerprints Reveal What the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Made Of

China Planted Billions of Trees and Scientists Just Found an Unexpected Advantage of These New Forests

The Case for Preventive Healthcare

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

How Coke Filled the World’s Cups

Europe’s Air Conditioning Rebellion

Trump, Iran’s Assassins and John Bolton

The best human landing system is the one that can beat China to the moon

The question of whether or not both or even one of the human landing systems being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin will be ready for the next moon landing in 2028 has raised its ugly head.

Saturn’s Largest Moon May Hold the Resources for a Space Colony

Beyond rockets and satellites, SpaceX is quietly building an AI compute business that may become key to its eye-popping valuation

RCP Podcast: Media Missed the Point of Trump's Speech, Rubio Takes on Communism, Are Dems Missing Graham Platner?

Maine’s new Senate candidates sound a lot like Graham Platner

Hypoglossal nerve stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea shows downstream health benefits

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Red states winning the prosperity race

Democrats Fall for Socialism Again

Homer's warrior tales, including 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' were loosely based on Mycenaean civilization.

With an eye toward exploration, researchers map Moon’s regolith thickness

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: Targeting July 20 liftoff

NASA's New Horizons awake and ready to stream data

Ways to Secure the New Golden Era of Economic Growth

America’s Enterprising Spirit Is Booming After Decades-Long Slump

Ancient Roman Concrete Keeps Getting Stronger, And The Secret Was Hiding in Hadrian's 2,000-Year-Old Toilet

Will Russia’s answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?

Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Antigravity

Skyroot Aerospace reaches orbit on first Vikram-1 launch

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Oregon Is Pumping Children Full of Hormones

ICE Agents Need Body Cameras

Britain’s Newest New Prime Minister

Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial path to deliver electrical power from orbit

Why Space Companies Are Betting Big on Texas

SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 test launch aborts at last second

How to Build a Pro-AI Majority

The U.S. Economy Is No Longer Dependent On Oil

Reigniting the American dream: Donald Trump, Dave McCormick, and Jamie Dimon unveil a massive manufacturing push in Pennsylvania

Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

Astronomers spot first atmosphere around a potentially habitable alien world

The F.D.A. Approves a New Pill to Slash Cholesterol Levels

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Scientists Made a Medical Electrode You Can Just Paint on Your Skin

China’s Economy Is in Worse Shape Than You Think

The House Vote on Israel Echoes Past Betrayals

How NASA’s Artemis III Lander Test Will Pave Way for Moon Landings

NASA Unveils Technologies That Could Build the Future of the Moon and Mars

NASA, Boeing’s Wisk Aero Make Self-Flying Aircraft Breakthrough

AI Data Centers Are the Heroes, Not the Villains

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason

Graham’s death from aortic dissection raises questions about preventing the rare disorder

Who Has the Midterm Upper Hand?

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Democrats Fall for Socialism Again

Lindsey Graham’s Plan to Pressure Russia

Democrats Blockade U.S. National Security

Weird Mountains on Pluto’s Largest Moon Charon Reveals a Surprising Past

Iran Just Put SpaceX in Its Crosshairs. Should Investors Be Worried?

NASA's Roman Space Telescope set to unlock the universe's biggest mysteries

Trump’s Reactor Pilot Program Is On Schedule

Bernie Sanders' latest horrible idea may wreck your 401(k)

AI’s black box problem: discovering physics we don’t understand

MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels

1st-ever X-rays in space offer hope for possible patients headed to the moon

An experimental Alzheimer’s drug shows promise targeting a different brain protein, new study shows

The U.S. Cleared a Giant Space Mirror to Shine Sunlight After Dark and Turn Night into Day

Astronomers Detect the First True Sugar in Interstellar Space

No Pain, No Gain in Iran Blockade

America Can Break China’s Choke Hold on Critical Minerals

Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

Hybrid Texas power plant blends the best of gas and nuclear

Morality Is Unintelligible Without Free Will: A Reply to Jerry Coyne

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Wealth Taxes Would Hit the Young Hardest

Rubio Takes On the International Criminal Court

New York’s Data Center Self-Sabotage

‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir’s Next Book Is Quite Timely It will have an AI element in it. I bet it will be more intelligent and nuanced than most SF stories about the new technology.

Why the US‑China Moon race could turn into a lunar land grab

Quantum Computers Identify Nuclear Fusion Fuel in Major First

American Science Isn't Being Harmed By Funding Cuts

A “disaster waiting to happen”? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

Cardiologist reacts to sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham

Scientists Created a Wearable You Can Paint Directly Onto Your Skin

A New Habitat at the Bottom of the Ocean Is Waiting for Its First Aquanauts

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

Schumer’s Tragedy—and Ours

Lindsey Graham’s Obeisance Was for a Higher Purpose

Iran Kills Deal, Trump Revives Blockade

A “disaster waiting to happen”? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

Keanu Reeves Officially Reveals New Sci-Fi Action Movie That Is 'Groundhog Day' Meets 'Jaws'

Sam Neill, star of ‘Jurassic Park,’ has died, family says

The new space race for a lunar base — complete with nuclear reactors — will decide the future of America’s national security

Why NASA Is Going With Fuel Cells Instead Of Batteries For Energy Storage On The Moon

NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS, thanks to an upgrade to a mini-fridge-sized quantum lab

149 million views! Artemis II moon mission breaks NASA's streaming record

The U.S. Army Just Took a Historic Step to Break China's Rare Earth Dominance

Mamdani’s anti-Italian hate is no surprise — it is foundational to his Marxist beliefs

Five Exciting Findings From Recent Anti-Aging Research

Immune Cells Get Transformed into Fungus-Fighting Nanoparticles

China Just Sent Back the First Close Up Look at Earth’s Mysterious Quasi-Moon. But the Next Step Is Dangerous

Scientists Say We May Need to Nuke Asteroids—But Not How You Think

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

School Choice Succeeds in Arkansas

Socialists Lead Democrats Into the Tea-Party Trap

Lindsey Graham’s Death Is a Loss for Global Freedom

Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tissue bioprinted off Earth for 1st time ever

Turning Off a Protein Called ‘Mitch’ Made Mice Virtually Immune to Obesity. Scientists Just Tested It In Human Cells

A Nobel-Winning Physicist Thinks Lasers Could Detect Disease Years Before Symptoms Appear

NASA mulls sending a nuclear-powered Mars rover to the moon

During a news briefing about NASA’s latest moon exploration plans, according to Ars Technica, space agency head Jared Isaacman suggested the possibility of sending a spare nuclear-powered Mars rover — an engineering model of the Mars Perseverance rover — to the moon.

Starship's Thirteenth Flight Test

NASA confirms some captured objects remain unexplained

Pakistan courts NASA partnership as it eyes first Moon mission by 2035

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Sen. Lindsey Graham dead at 71 after 'brief and sudden' illness, office says

Believe All Women — Unless They’re Inconvenient

Socialism As Royal Road to Fraud

The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum after a secret journey from France

Elon Musk Claims SpaceX Will Send ‘Thousands’ Of People To The Moon And Mars In Next Ten Years

Elon Musk Says His Goal Is for SpaceX to Be Worth More than the Entire Earth

NASA chief confirms agency has unexplained UFO imagery: 'We don't know what it is'

China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it

White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead new UFO study group

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Will Washington State Choose Stagnation Over Growth?

Too Little, Too Late, a Putin Oligarch Speaks Up

Gad Saad on Suicidal Empathy and Western Decline

Japanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space on SpaceX Starship mission to the moon

China lands reusable rocket for first time, state media says

Texas Democrat vows to investigate Musk’s SpaceX if elected attorney general

The U.S. Is a Mining Sleeping Giant

The Real Costs of Implausible Scenarios

Wally Funk, a North Texas aviation pioneer, has died. Here's how she broke barriers

Nuclear Physicist Wants To Catch Hidden Space Nukes by Using Earth’s Radiation Belts

Maine May Get Another Platner

The 'Two-State' Solution Narrative Is Based on a Lie

NASA Is Calling on Industry to Build Its Lunar Infrastructure

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Why Do Democrats Hate Medicare Advantage?

Mike Waltz Takes Cuba to School

A Revealing Senate Debate in Michigan

From the lab to the moon: Lunar cement alternative survives 6 months on ISS and returned stronger in some te

Trump heaps praise on SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell and thanks her for $325 million Trump Accounts gift

Could Astronauts Grow Rice on the Moon?

Why the “smallest” giant telescope may be the world’s best

Firefly Aerospace awarded NASA CLPS contract

Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA's lunar outpost

Two Old Drugs May Help Protect the Brain After Stroke by Triggering a Hibernation-Like State

A Nobel-Winning Physicist Thinks Lasers Could Detect Disease Years Before Symptoms Appear

Socialists Spell Trouble for Democrats

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Trump Will Let Ukraine Make Patriots

Trump Tells the Truth About Iran

How the Smithsonian Lost America’s Plot

We’re going to the moon to stay, and Canada stands to play an important role

With SpaceX Starship, Japan's ispace provides ride-share to the moon

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft wakes from its longest hibernation in good health

Trump Accounts give all Americans a stake in prosperity

How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.

'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans

How public–private partnerships can turn Mars into an economic frontier

New data shows Alzheon’s oral Alzheimer’s drug reduces brain swelling and preserves memory

Breakthrough Diabetes Treatment Reprograms the Immune System Instead of Replacing Insulin

A Fusion Startup Lit Bulbs With Electricity Pulled Straight From Plasma

SpaceX Launches the First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite

Decades Late, Cuba Approves Serious Market Reforms

Ukraine Is Redefining Modern Warfare

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

French Lawfare and Marine Le Pen

No More Oil Sanctions Waiver for Iran

Why Did They Cover for Graham Platner?

Blue Origin continues work on lunar landers during recovery from New Glenn explosion

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell to donate stock to Trump Accounts

Nuclear in my backyard: A Nebraska utility is skirting the public backlash that plagues wind and solar

'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test

The Square Kilometre Array Will Revolutionize the Hunt for Alien Life

How Rocky's Models Were Made for Project Hail Mary

Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail

A Nearby “Super-Earth” May Be More Habitable Than Astronomers Thought

A Nobel Winning Chemist Is Trying to Pull Drinking Water from Desert Air

Millions of Old EV Batteries Could Get a Second Life Helping Power The Grid

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

Socialism: Still Failing

Can AI Repair the Broken Modern State?

A Conservative Court, but No Monolith

There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend

Tianwen-2 arrives at asteroid Kamo’oalewa, first image revealed

NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate

NASA wants to light the first fire on the moon. Here's why

NASA administrator says "we are very much in a space race right now" against China

NASA and Small Business Administration partner on funding key space technologies

Climate establishment officially retires extreme scenario

Bet on the builders to power America’s next 250 years

Experts ranked 400 jobs by their dementia risk – and were stunned what came out on top

First Impressions of Houston, TEXAS 🇺🇸 (BUC-EE'S Blew Our Minds)

Prime Rib For Breakfast on Our First Day in Houston 🇺🇸

NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star

Anthropic Wants to Make Its Own Drugs With Help from Claude

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon, Could Become a ‘Gas Station’ for Deep Space Missions

After 700 Years Underwater Divers Recovered 80-Ton Blocks from the Long-Lost Lighthouse of Alexandria

Evanston’s Race Reparations in the Dock

Space travel’s heavyweights ponder a future with antimatter rockets

Recently, two of the powerful men on the planet where space policy is concerned had an exchange on the social media platform X about antimatter. The exchange is another example of how what was once science fiction is becoming reality.

Artemis II astronauts share touching story in never-before-seen video

Trump floats intriguing Elon Musk, SpaceX plan

NASA tested a nuclear rocket engine dozens of times in the 1960s, proved it could work, then shelved it before it ever flew — and now the same basic idea is being revived because it could make the trip to Mars far shorter than chemical rockets allow.

Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

Trump touts American exceptionalism and condemns communism in July 4 speech

Will the socialist revolution come for Kamala Harris?

Canada’s Jew-hatred problem

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NASA launches rescue mission to save Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth's atmosphere

Citizen Vigilante Aims Wildly Popular Punisher Genre At Migrant Invaders

America’s Next 250 Years Are Ours to Build

How the Declaration of Independence Spawned Free Markets

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

NASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian Honeycomb”

Life in Colonial America Was Plagued by Pain, Sickness, and Itch

Repair Bio advances plaque regression program with FDA nod

Happy 250th birthday, America!

Mamdani Gives 250th Anniversary Speech, and Boy, Does This Guy Hate America

Newsom’s wealth tax: Target Musk and Bezos, hand the moon to China

Recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) proposed a national wealth tax. The idea is that it is a bad thing that a few billionaires (and one trillionaire) possess all of those riches that they acquired by building things and providing needed services. So, Newsom took to X (owned by Elon Musk, one of his targets) and proposed that a certain percentage (unspecified) of rich people’s wealth should be seized by the government every year.

Yes, Europe’s heat waves are deadlier than American gun violence

Europe’s Deadly Aversion to Air Conditioning

Russia’s economy is ‘sputtering,’ and Putin’s wartime spending model has pushed the country to an ‘economic, political, and military abyss’

Elon Musk is in the rabid left’s crosshairs — but he’s not the true target

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe

Scientists Turned Human Cells into Tiny Biological Computers

South Korea to Launch Lunar Lander by 2030, Target 70 Trillion Aerospace Industry

You Can Dream While You’re Still Awake and Scientists Finally Saw It Happen

America’s Earnestness Is Even Cooler Than Air Conditioning

Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

AI and the English Language

The Socialist Threat Is Real

The Great ObamaCare Escape

New Water-Harvesting Jacket Pulls up to 30 Ounces of Drinking Water From the Air Daily

Short sellers boost bets against SpaceX and it's already costing them

Don't Worry, The U.S. Is Not Going the Way of Socialism

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing’s Starliner will now be a decade late

Thank You, Judith Curry

Blood test spots hidden pancreatic cancer after treatment

This Jellyfish Can Heal Wounds in Minutes Without Scars and Scientists Think They’ve Found Its Secret

Are frozen and canned vegetables as good as the fresh ones? Here’s what you need to know

The AI Race Pushes India Toward the West

NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure

New Nonsurgical Knee Treatment Delivers Lasting Pain Relief

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Me, Myself and AI

Abraham Lincoln Remade the Fourth of July

The Military Danger of the Anti-Israel Panic

Majority of Russians Think the Economy is Getting Worse

Rice grown on the moon? Air-to-fertilizer technology helps rice grow in lunar soil simulant

NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities

Nasa says Blue Origin remains its ‘plan A’ for Moon return despite rocket explosion

NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit

NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon

NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again?

Contra Jennifer Harris, the Force Hollowing Out the Economy Isn't AI

Lab-Grown Retinal Cells Show Promise for New Eye Therapies

Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin

A Divided Country Celebrates Its Anniversary—Again

The Founders Wouldn’t Back a ‘Billionaire Tax’

The ‘Christian’ Putin’s Alliance With the Taliban

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Women’s Sports Win at the Supreme Court

Political Speech Wins Again at the Supreme Court

Blaming U.S. Air Conditioning for French Weather

'Titan is actually a very reasonable destination for humans': Scientists start mapping out crewed mission to huge Saturn moon

Robotic Servicing Spacecraft Will Soon Blast into Orbit, to Try to Save a 1.5-Ton NASA Satellite From Reentry

What Laws Have to Do With It: Thirty Years of Lessons on What Makes Charter Schools Thrive

America’s economic engine is outperforming this century’s expectations — whether the Dems like it or not

Are We Afraid of Aliens, or Are We Afraid of Ourselves?

Study Reveals How Leukemia Cells Enter and Damage Lungs

Scientists say Earth Impacts May Have Delivered Microbes to the Clouds of Venus

Hundreds of Thousands of Chickens Die as France Suffers Its Hottest Day on Record

The Communism Debate at CNN

What Real Diversity Looks Like

Public Interest in Space: Revealing New Survey

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

The Russian Reckoning

Air Conditioning, Scourge of the French Left

Rubio Holds the Line on Hezbollah

NASA Identifies More Than 40 Space Technologies for Collaboration

Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium

NASA Launches Daring Mission to Save Telescope

Energy Abundance Key To Our National Security

Even Einstein Admitted He Was Wrong. We Apparently Can’t Expect as Much From Al Gore.

Could future astronauts use oysters as water filters? Here's why one company thinks so

What capitalism will look like in space

Newly Discovered Notebook Written By 22-Year-Old Mozart Contains New Music And Shows How He Taught A Young Harpist

NASA Rover Finds Most Complex Organic Chemistry Ever Detected on Mars. But Can It Reveal Whether Life Ever Existed There?

Why Being ‘Progressive’ Is No Longer Enough on the Left

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Graham Platner and the David Duke Precedent

Only a Few Democrats Fight Back Against the Socialists

The Socialist Wave, West Coast Version

Intuitive Machines posts record revenue and $1.1B backlog amid lunar economy surge post-SpaceX IPO

Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide

This would have put my old Middle East studies professor in a bit of a quandry. On the one hand, he was no fan of the State of Israel. On the other hand, he suffered professionally at the hands of the Turkish governmemt for pointing out the Armenian Holocaust.

Before Donald Quataert annoyed the Turkish government, he was my Middle Eastern studies professor

Scientists mull controversial plan to steer hurricanes

NASA extends its commercial partnerships to Mars

Recently, NASA extended the idea of private-public partnerships to Mars. The space agency has struck a deal with Relativity Space to send an orbital probe to the Red Planet, with a launch date no earlier than 2028.

Tit-for-Tat in Strait of Hormuz; UPDATE: Iran Attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraqi Government Upheaval

SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for jobs in the space economy hasn’t

In a First, a Scientist Regrew a Human Lung in a Bioreactor. Is This the Dawn of Rebuilding Humans Piece by Piece?

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

NASA awards, ‘unicorns’ and the biggest IPO ever: A new commercial space boom is underway

NASA used a drone to deliver a human kidney. Is this the future of transplant transport?

I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life.

Mark R, Whittington articles

Mark R. Whittington books

Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival

NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes

NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope before it falls from space. Is it worth it?

Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

Cognition Therapeutics plans Phase 3 trial after drug slows dementia psychosis by 89%

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Join A First Mover in AI Robotics Who's Unlocking Mass-Market Growth

A Senate Advance on Cheaper Weapons

All of Gavin Newsom’s Donors

The Cruelty in Government-Run Medicine

Report to Congress on Returning Humans to the Moon

SpaceX plans to build 'Starpipe' natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets

NASA’s Swift Boost mission readies for launch

How NASA Taught Four Astronauts to Read the Moon

Iran Didn’t Win the War

China’s Private Space Industry Must Not Be Underestimated

'A huge step forward': This strange Antarctic creature could spark a cancer breakthrough, say scientists

A Response to the Opponents of Space-Based Interceptors in Golden Dome

The US and China are planning Moon bases. It could help improve life on Earth

Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy: "Comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam"

What Happens When You Throw a Paper Plane From Space? These Physicists Found Out

The Tartan Army Takes America

Britain’s Prime Minister Problem

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

No Air Conditioning, Please, We’re French

Democrats Just Say No to the Military

SpaceX employees got rich off stock options. Ex-Blue Origin workers say theirs are worthless.

How Do We Balance the Federal Budget?

Firefly Aerospace Acquires Space-ng to Advance Future of Autonomous Space Operations

Vast signs additional partners for commercial space station microgravity research

The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Civil rights, moon landings and war wins: What Americans see as the country’s greatest achievements

Canceled NASA exploration projects suffered billions of dollars in overruns

Socialism: On The March, Or Not So Much?

Republicans hang on

AI Is Now Drilling for Oil, and the Profits Are Enormous

Were Vikings Really ‘Uncivilized’ Barbarians? Large Textile-Production Site Discovered in Denmark Challenges That Stereotype

Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars

What really causes autism? We're about to find out

Cytonics begins Phase I trial of new therapy to treat knee osteoarthritis

Gut punch: New study knocks out norovirus where it strikes

Ukraine’s New Air-Power Paradigm

A Counterfactual Social Security History

Hope for spinal injuries as pigs walk again after experimental gel treatment for severed spinal cords

Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea

Washington should spend Iran’s frozen billions on satellite internet for its people

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

The Socialist Democrats of America

Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass 2,000 Years Ago. Scientists Now Know How It Happened

A Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s Took Magic Mushrooms and Started Speaking Again

Scientists begin first trial to reverse human aging

SpaceX launches secretive Starfall reentry demo mission

Here’s what can come next with climate-change fever finally breaking

Why Quantum Space chose the SPAC route to go public

Researchers Develop Promising New Therapy for Most Common Form of Bone Cancer in Children and Young Adults

Space Force May Need Presence on Moon, Paper Argues

NASA, Boeing committed to Starliner-1 launch despite unclear timeline

Data Centers Start to Drive Residential Electricity Bills Down

SpaceX and NASA leaders hail antimatter propulsion rockets for journeys beyond Mars

China’s Mysterious Spaceplane Releases Unidentified Object in Orbit

Discovery of severe pneumonia subtypes could lead to tailored treatments for life-threating disease

James Webb Spots the Same Mystery Chemical Fingerprint on Titan and Pluto

The World’s 10 Most ‘Cursed’ Places: A Guide to Dangerous Destinations

Everyone vs. Superintelligence?

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again)

Scott Bessent: Hamilton Inspires Trump’s Economic Statecraft

Tim Sheehy Explains Iran

Zohran Mamdani, Slumlord

Interstellar comet is unlike anything seen in our Solar System

Trump executive order directs NASA to plan quantum space applications

UFO Update: NASA Astronaut Reveals Planned Test for Extraterrestrial Life

Trump Must Condition Iran Aid to Economic Freedom

Elon Musk’s SpaceX success shows how he’s sharing the wealth, not playing Monopoly

A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing

Stuttering Is in the Genes

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

AI Needs Public Quality Testing

Do Bible Passages Belong in English Class?

Chuck Schumer’s Chip Shortage

The Future of Nuclear Energy

Obama’s Hideous Monument to Hubris

SpaceX Is the Opening Chapter In a Powerful Industrial Revolution

Earthlings on Europa? Provocative Study Explores ‘Reverse Panspermia’ Scenario Where Earth Life May Have Invaded an Alien Moon

Artificial Intelligence Is Still Quite 'Dumb'

This Three-Armed Robot Can Slice-and-Dice Salmon Into Sashimi

Live Free and Prosper

AI Is a Boon to Ambitious Recent Grads

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Victory Over Iran Is Still Possible

Britain’s Great Labour Hope for Change?

Colombia Joins the Latin Right Turn

Seasoned leadership could help Quantum Space’s IPO take off

While all eyes have been on the recent SpaceX IPO, another, smaller aerospace company is preparing to go public as well. Quantum Space will initiate an IPO by merging with the special purpose acquisition company, Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. VI. The deal is supposed to close later this year.

This Space Station Company Will Now Go to the Moon, Too

Making Sense Of Mars’ Tiny Moon Of Phobos

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

SpaceX doesn’t pay a dividend. So how come it may help these investors earn passive income?

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew in and out of the solar corona and found a source of high-energy particles that no existing model had predicted

2026 Fifa World Cup ball heads to space as NASA studies football in zero gravity

A private company will build and launch NASA's next Mars orbiter in 2028 — and it's not SpaceX

NASA studied the entire lunar South Pole and narrowed humanity's landing options to just nine candidate regions — on a body the size of a continent, the ground everyone wants is barely a few neighborhoods

NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars

NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth, researchers advise

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

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Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

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California’s Democratic Civil War Over the Wealth Tax

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Jeff Bezos at VivaTech: We need to colonise the Moon to save Earth

"Affordability" Should Be A Winning Issue For Republicans

Data Center Critics Have Water On The Brain

This absurd Social Security plan would take down progressives with it

The Warfare Of The Future Is Already Here

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declares the moon 'the province of all mankind' and bans any nation from owning it — yet it created no court, no police and no referee anywhere off Earth to enforce the rule

Chinese university-led mission to study asteroid Apophis during close encounter with Earth

What Happens When You Cut a Photon in Half? You Get a Quantum Surprise

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted (Stories of Alternate History #CommissionEarned

Mamdani vs. Bodegas

Another Russian Dissident Murder

Drugs, Guns and Whiskey at the Supreme Court

Blue Origin begins rebuilding New Glenn pad

Swift reboost mission ready for launch

Quantum Space wins Pentagon contract to develop orbital refueling spacecraft

Relativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter mission

California is rethinking nuclear — environmental groups should, too

Note to Bernie: AI could herald new age for trade jobs, unions

Musk’s SpaceX Wealth Launches A Trillion Tax Lies

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it

The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad

Please, No More New Deals

Talking Crazy Is How You Lose Elections

California Needs a Pro-Business Governor

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Jules Verne predicted submarines and Moon missions. He also got some things hilariously wrong

One of The Ocean’s Deadliest Snails Gave Us a Nonaddictive Painkiller and Scientists Say They Have Barely Scratched The Surface

A Piece of the Moon Found in Africa Records a Giant Lunar Impact From the Dawn of Life on Earth

San Antonio lunar research project aims to support NASA moon and Mars plans

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