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James Parker
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These fish use legs to taste the seafloor
Reading Time: 3 minutesSea robins are unusual animals with the body of a fish, wings of a bird, and walking legs of a crab. Now,...
What’s at Stake for Science in the US Presidential Election
Reading Time: 12 minutesAfter a summer of political drama in the United States—including two assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s...
NASA’s Hidden Figures Honored with Congressional Gold Medals
Reading Time: 4 minutesA simple turn of phrase was all it took for U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of Katherine Johnson’s home state of West...
NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks
Reading Time: 2 minutesNASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized...
Giant Leaps Start at Johnson for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the hub of human spaceflight, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a variety of unique responsibilities and privileges. Those include...
Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer
Reading Time: 2 minutesLife Some lizards dive into streams to escape predators, and a specialised bubble-breathing technique enables them to stay submerged for up to...
Recoded gene circuits for multiplexed genetic code expansion
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearch Briefing Published: 11 September 2024 Nature Biotechnology (2024)Cite this article Subjects Quadruplet codons allow multiplexing of non-canonical amino acids within single...
How to Watch the First Presidential Debate Without Cable
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump (which is actually the second debate of the...
Astronaut José Hernández on space tourism
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In 2009, Mexican-American engineer José Hernández fulfilled a lifelong dream: to travel to...
5 clever animals that treat and prevent their own illnesses
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt was 1987 in Tanzania and the chimpanzee Chausiku was doing something very peculiar. Primatologist Michael Huffman noticed Chausiku was chewing the...