Boeing disclosed in its quarterly SEC filing on July 28 that the next Starliner mission will not fly until at least the final three months of 2026, marking another delay for a program that has not completed a crewed flight since June 2024. The disclosure came in Boeing’s Form 10-Q for the second quarter of […]
Sleep is supposed to be restorative. But the signal that tells an animal to sleep may start inside the cell’s power plants, in a burst of what looks like cellular damage. That is the finding from a new study on the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans published July 29 on bioRxiv. After bombarding worms with ultraviolet […]
A team of researchers has developed a new framework for interpreting exoplanet observations that incorporates planetary evolution over time, addressing a fundamental limitation of existing static retrieval models. The work, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal and led by Harrison Nicholls of the University of Oxford, builds on the PROTEUS planetary evolution framework and introduces a […]
Two Democratic senators have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Trump Media and Technology Group is selling an unfair market advantage, one that directly enriches the president of the United States. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff sent a letter July 28 to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins requesting a probe into Truth […]
Two large meteors have illuminated New Zealand skies within three days of each other, the most recent on the night of July 28 when a bright fireball crossed the lower North Island and produced a sonic boom heard over a wide area. Fireballs Aotearoa, the citizen science network that tracks meteors across New Zealand, reported […]
The United States is making it harder for African students to study there. China is welcoming them. The result is a shift in educational migration that carries implications far beyond the classroom. The numbers already tell the story. US student visa denial rates for African applicants hit 66 percent in 2025, roughly two out of […]
