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NASA has selected Houston-based Axiom Space, a startup founded in 2016, to build the first commercial habitat module for the International Space Station (ISS). This module will be used as a destination for future commercial spaceflight missions, potentially housing experiments, technology development and more performed by commercial space travellers taking rides up to the ISS ...

Concrete and steel come with massive emissions. So let's ditch them and build towers out of wood. Yes, wood. ...

The old-fashioned-sounding illness is mostly harmless. So why does it cause so much parental panic? ...

Ethicists and biologists seek to head off challenges raised by tissue “organoids” as they become increasingly similar to human brains. ...

The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China. ...

New estimates of how far the virus could spread suggest an explosion of cases will hit the Chinese city and more infected individuals will show up abroad. ...

Even though judges tossed out his big case last week, lawyer Phillip Gregory, who represents 21 youth in an unprecedented climate lawsuit against the U.S. government, was in a superb mood Thursday morning. "I'm doing amazing," said Gregory.  The... ...

As World Athletics debates whether to ban Nike's carbon-fiber running shoe, it should heed lessons from the case of “Bionic Olympian” Oscar Pistorius. ...

Australia has desperately needed rain, but not like this.  Areas choked with smoke earlier this month have been pelted with hailstones the size of golf ***** over the past few days: stripping trees, smashing cars and windows, and literally stoni... ...