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A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Sam Lott/NASA via AP)

NASA fuels its moon rocket in a crucial test to decide when Artemis astronauts will launch

9:41 AM on Monday, February 2

NASA is fueling its new moon rocket in one final make-or-break test before sending astronauts on a lunar fly-around

SLAS Names PulpFixin(R) Official Sustainability Sponsor for Europe Conference in Vienna, Key Sustainability Supporter at SLAS2026 in Boston

9:00 AM on Monday, February 2

In this undated photo, Baby Blaise attends her 9-month Foundcog scan with her mother Mary at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in Dublin, Ireland. (Cusack Lab via AP)

2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests

8:03 AM on Monday, February 2

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, which earlier than scientists previously thought

FILE - A forklift speeds by machines and workers on the production floor of a Mohawk Industries rug manufacturing plant in Calhoun, Ga., Wednesday, April 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

Takeaways from investigation into the toxic forever chemical legacy of the South’s carpet industry

6:49 AM on Monday, February 2

A major investigative collaboration among five newsrooms shows how chemicals used to make carpets stain-resistant have contaminated swaths of the South

From ski jumping to speedskating, winter sports represent physics in action

5:30 AM on Monday, February 2

This photo provided by SIP/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, shows a mining device inserted into subsea sediment off Minamitorishima, south of Tokyo, on Jan. 30, 2026. (SIP/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology via AP)

Japan retrieves rare earth-rich mud from seabed to lower reliance on China

5:05 AM on Monday, February 2

A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China

The Ahlstrom paper mill in Rhinelander, Wis., on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Takeaways from the AP's reporting on PFAS contamination of private drinking water wells

4:50 AM on Monday, February 2

The Associated Press’ reporting on the vulnerabilities of private water well owners to contamination by harmful forever chemicals shows how some well owners are left stranded

The US Lock & Dam on the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville, N.C., on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells

4:25 AM on Monday, February 2

The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply

This undated image provided by Washington State University in January 2026, made from a video taken from a grizzly bear's collar camera, shows two grizzly bears playing on the tundra in Alaska's North Slope. (Washington State University via AP)

Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope

5:02 AM on Sunday, February 1

Researchers at Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are using collar cams to study a remote population of grizzly bears on Alaska's North Slope

This photo provided by NASA shows the Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Jim Ross/NASA via AP)

NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years

5:38 PM on Saturday, January 31

NASA has begun a two-day practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in 53 years

FILE - The crowd watches the festivities while waiting for Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, to come out and make his prediction during the 139th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger, File)

Punxsutawney Phil prepares to issue his Groundhog Day weather verdict from Gobbler's Knob

4:28 AM on Saturday, January 31

Punxsutawney Phil is set to deliver his annual weather forecast and predict either six more weeks of winter or an early spring

NASA delays the first Artemis moonshot with astronauts because of extreme cold at the launch site

6:19 AM on Friday, January 30

NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site

Adicet Bio to Present at the Guggenheim Emerging Outlook: Biotech Summit 2026

4:00 AM on Friday, January 30

This photo provided by Melody Baran shows a rare waved albatross spotted off the coast of Point Piedras Blancas, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Melody Baran/University of California, San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography via AP)

Scientists marvel at a Galapagos seabird that wandered 3,000 miles to California

1:08 PM on Thursday, January 29

Scientists on a research vessel off the California coast are marveling at a rare find — a waved albatross was spotted soaring over the Pacific

In this photo provided by Macey Sorrell, 3-year-old Gregory Sorrell cuddles with a calf his family brought indoors during extreme cold temperatures in Mount Sterling, Ky., on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. At right is his sister, Charlee Sorrell, 2. (Courtesy Macey Sorrell via AP)

Newborn calf struggling in deep freeze brought indoors to curl up on couch

11:31 AM on Thursday, January 29

A Kentucky family battling extreme cold temperatures on their farm over the weekend opened their home to a newborn calf that was struggling in the deep freeze

Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

5:16 AM on Thursday, January 29

Personalis to Participate in the BTIG 13th Annual MedTech, Digital Health, Life Science & Diagnostic Tools Conference

1:01 PM on Wednesday, January 28

A loggerhead sea turtle named Pyari is seen swimming in a tank shortly before its release in Juno Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

A sea turtle with 3 flippers swims free after Florida rehab, now followed by satellite

12:44 PM on Wednesday, January 28

A loggerhead sea turtle has returned to the Atlantic Ocean after rehabilitation at a Florida turtle hospital

Argonne Plays ‘Bad Guy’ to Test Next-Gen Nuclear Reactor Concepts

12:22 PM on Wednesday, January 28

A person pushed a bicycle during a winter storm in Philadelphia, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain

8:26 AM on Wednesday, January 28

Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East will continue in the coming days, with subfreezing temperatures reaching into Florida and a potential blizzard threatening the Atlantic coast

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