Dr. Henry Lee, who first stepped into the spotlight during a 1995 trial that captured national attention, has passed away at 87. He spent more than five decades teaching and guiding students in forensic science, shaping the field through both education and practice. Lee’s name is linked to several h
He grew up in a small town near a pond, where he spent hours catching frogs and watching snakes glide across the water. His curiosity about nature was fueled by weekly fact cards his mother sent him, packed with fun details about animals. He kept a binder full of scientific names and behaviors, memo
NASA is changing its roadmap for the Moon. The agency has decided to stop work on the Gateway space station, a joint project that would have orbited the Moon. Instead, it will focus on building a permanent base on the lunar surface with an estimated cost of $20 billion. The new plan has three stages
The original 1978‑79 “Battlestar Galactica” was a mixed bag. On one side, it tried to copy the excitement of “Star Wars, ” offering flashy laser fights and space battles that felt more like air combat than real interstellar warfare. On the other side, its creator Glen A. Larson slipped in religious
A massive blue whale that drifted onto a southern Oregon beach in 2015 is about to reappear on land after an eleven‑year odyssey. The carcass, weighing roughly 200 tons and stretching nearly 70 feet, was found in a battered state. Scientists could not tell how long it had been dead, but tests reveal
Joe Rogan recently shared a new health experiment on Instagram. He had his blood drawn and the liquid taken out in a process called plasmapheresis. On the feed he compared it to an oil change for cars, showing the yellow‑orange plasma that came out. The visual made the idea easier to grasp for peopl
Scientists teamed up with a popular mayo brand to find out if the creamy condiment can play music. The idea started as a joke on a cartoon, but researchers now say it can. They used science to test whether mayo can make or change sound in a clear way. The study looked at how instruments normally wo
In Singapore, a large crowd gathered in a fancy hotel ballroom to hear about a company’s big plans. The CEO spoke about artificial intelligence, faster-charging EV batteries, and even medical breakthroughs like restoring vision to blind people. Sound too good to be true? That’s because it might be.
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is usually a quiet group. It gets noticed only when something goes wrong. The new council was announced after a long delay, and most of its members are not scientists. The list shows nine seats still empty. The people who were chosen so
In recent years, farms around the world have faced harsher conditions: salty soils, long dry spells, and heat waves that hit more often. These challenges threaten the food we rely on, so scientists need to find crops that can survive such hardships. Women researchers have stepped up in this field, m
