Technology & Innovation

How do people sleep in space? We talk to former astronaut Mike Massimino about his Space Shuttle slumber party experience and the unique challenges of catching Zs in zero-G. This episode originally aired in 2022.

Using a remotely operated vehicle, researchers are exploring a long-overlooked piece of Seattle’s maritime history.

This blog post highlights several unusual methods that the post office and contractors used, or considered using, to deliver the mail.

Many of the country’s metal mines are embedded in an ancient rock formation that probably also houses a lot of the resource, referred to as “white hydrogen."

Participants who were overweight or living with obesity wore the accessories for two hours every morning for six weeks and lost an average of two pounds. The researchers suspect showering or swimming in frigid water could have similar effects.

Colossal Biosciences announced that 26 live baby chickens have emerged from 3D-printed honeycomb structures. But the company does not plan to detail the system in a paper, and its mission has faced criticism.

In a new study, 3-year-olds who were repeatedly exposed to the taste of bitter kale as fetuses appeared to be less averse to the leafy greens’ scent than they were to a food smell they hadn’t experienced in utero.

Blue sunsets, whirling dust devils, giant volcanoes, tiny moons, and marsquakes—there’s a lot to discover on Mars!