Two lunar landings in a week for NASA’s private moon fleet

Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States’ return to the lunar surface, when the first-ever private lander touched down…

Thousands report outage affecting Microsoft services like Outlook

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers reported having issues with services like Outlook on Saturday. In a series of posts on the social platform X, the company…

China signals renewed tech sector support, but concerns linger

The Alibaba logo is seen outside its offices in Beijing in February 2025. A simple handshake between President Xi Jinping and once-shunned entrepreneur Jack Ma sent Chinese tech stocks booming…

‘We’re on the moon!’ Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander just etched its name into the history books. Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private…

Rare monolithic menhir discovery near Halberstadt

Archaeologists from the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt have discovered a menhir during excavations near Halberstadt in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Menhirs, meaning “long stones”…

Submerged Roman villa emerges in Lake Fusaro

The remains of a Roman village complex have started to emerge from the waters of Lake Fusaro due to a process of geological uplift known as bradysism. Lake Fusaro is…

For cancer patients, oncologists often have the final word

Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels For terminally ill cancer patients, the final days of life are immensely personal, having the choice to continue cancer treatments, or to stop treatments and…

A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It’s a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 times closer than the Earth…

Immune ‘fingerprints’ aid diagnosis of complex diseases

Immune cells (top) generate highly variable receptors by shuffling DNA segments (second panel) to recognize threats like bacteria (green in third). Identifying ‘successful’ receptors (fourth) can help diagnose complex diseases.…

Blood metabolites tied to childhood growth and cognitive milestones

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) of the association between child serum metabolome and early childhood development. Credit: eLife (2025). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.97982 McMaster University researchers have identified small molecules in the blood…