Space Communications & Navigation Program Archives - Page 87 of 180

Losing your way of life to climate change matters — and we need a way to measure it 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 22, 2026
Salt harvesters in Gujarat, India, often have to work through extreme heatwaves. The first time I began to understand climate loss as a mental-health issue was not while reading a report or attending a summit. It was while listening to people describe what they feared losing. While working with coastal communities in Kenya, I heard
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Edible batteries power medical devices in the body 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 22, 2026
This ingestible capsule, tested in pigs, contains a biodegradable paper battery (large brown circular structure) and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag (black lines).Credit: Mehmet Say A battery made with a substance resembling edible rice paper can power swallowable electronic medical devices. And after the battery has been safely digested, its broken-down ingredients can be absorbed
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China punishes prominent academics exposed by research sleuth 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 22, 2026
A social-media sleuth known as Student Geng has released a series of videos highlighting cases of alleged research misconduct.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature China’s national funding agency has reprimanded and penalized four senior academics and their colleagues after a sleuth flagged data anomalies in their published papers. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) found violations
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AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 22, 2026
Biochemist Anna Pertl typed in her question, pressed Enter and left for the night. The artificial-intelligence system that she had prompted is designed to produce innovative scientific hypotheses. But, unlike a typical chatbot, this AI tool — called Co-Scientist — doesn’t simply generate an answer in a single pass. It launches several autonomous AI systems,
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Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 22, 2026
The university I lead is more than four centuries old and has seen political orders rise and fall. I have not, but I work each day in an institution that remembers those changes — in its archives, statutes and culture of argument. The conditions that make knowledge trustworthy, such as independent peer review, openness about
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‘Epigenetic’ editing is here: gene-tagging technique banishes hepatitis B virus 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 22, 2026
A wave of epigenetic therapies is offering hope as ways to cure chronic hepatitis B — a lingering liver infection that is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and affects more than 250 million people around the world. Currently available drugs often fail to eradicate the virus from the body. Gene-editing therapies — which
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