The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

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It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

One seismometer is often not enough to reliably detect earthquakes or human activity such as underground nuclear tests.

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A space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests and could someday propel spacecraft using ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...