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6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (304+ words) How many spaceports does the U.S. need? A new executive order calls for more than 1,000 U.S. rocket launches per year by the end of the decade. Rethinking the nation’s spaceports will be key By Elizabeth Howell edited by Lee Billings Forget boot…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (423+ words) From flashing fireflies to human music, many biological rhythms appear to converge on the same rhythmic range By Anirban Mukhopadhyay edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Fireflies’ rhythmic flickering fits within a common tempo range. A closer analysis showed that both…...

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1+ week, 5+ day ago   (261+ words) The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses Minds can be found everywhere in nature, often in places we’d never think to look for them—even without a brain to house them, clusters of cells…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (642+ words) Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the astonishing science behind modern searches for alien life By Brianne Kane edited by Lee Billings We’ve been looking…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (895+ words) The fast-growing private-school network is handing much of instruction over to artificial intelligence. Researchers say the science is far from settled By Mary Randolph edited by Eric Sullivan When Carl Hendrick took his first ride in a Waymo, the self-driving…...