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Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future

homeward bound

Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle

Urban Jungle

What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle

Ricardo Hernández

Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d Think

Extreme Weather

Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d Think

Dennis Mersereau

Moon GPS Is Coming

Space

Moon GPS Is Coming

Becky Ferreira

Ski Resorts Are Stockpiling Snow to Get Through Warm Winters

Cold Storage

Ski Resorts Are Stockpiling Snow to Get Through Warm Winters

Chris Baraniuk

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

Space Oddity

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

Eric Berger, Ars Technica

Wildfires Are Contaminating Water Supplies

Water Hazard

Wildfires Are Contaminating Water Supplies

Hannah Singleton

Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder

Repeat Findings

Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder

Leila Sloman

A Rare Coincidence of La Niña Events Will Weaken Hurricane Season

Crossover Event

A Rare Coincidence of La Niña Events Will Weaken Hurricane Season

Annalisa Bracco and Zachary Handlos

Scientists Plan ‘Doomsday’ Vault on Moon

Deep Freeze

Scientists Plan ‘Doomsday’ Vault on Moon

Ayurella Horn-Muller and Syris Valentine

John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly

Paralympics 2024

John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly

Emilio Cozzi

Here’s What the Inside of an Airbus Factory Looks Like

Flying Off the Shelf

Here’s What the Inside of an Airbus Factory Looks Like

Antonio Dini

Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus Spreads

Global Health

Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus Spreads

Emily Mullin

The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than Natural Gas

take charge

The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than Natural Gas

John Timmer, Ars Technica

Struggling to Unlock Your Phone? You Might Have Lost Your Fingerprints

Leave No Trace

Struggling to Unlock Your Phone? You Might Have Lost Your Fingerprints

Dawn Fallik

Physics

The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect

Joseph Howlett

The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon Next Year

Return to Sender

The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon Next Year

Becky Ferreira

Will the ‘Car-Free’ Los Angeles Olympics Work?

Bussed Flush

Will the ‘Car-Free’ Los Angeles Olympics Work?

Jay L. Zagorsky

Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather

Be Prepared

Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather

Lyndsey Gilpin and Jake Bittle

So You’re Underwater: Why Do You See That Circle of Light Above You?

Dot Physics

So You’re Underwater: Why Do You See That Circle of Light Above You?

Rhett Allain