- June 8, 2025
US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next?
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr Tasos Katopodis/Getty One of the top vaccine experts at the US Centers for Disease
Ancient humans evolved to be better teachers as technology advanced
As technology progressed, humans also got better at passing on skills to others English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images An analysis of more than 3 million years
Trillion dollars’ worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon
Lunar craters could be a rich source of platinum NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Craters on the moon could hold over a trillion dollars’ worth of
Any wall can be turned into a camera to see around corners
Technology for seeing around corners would be of use to the military Matthew Horwood/Getty Images An ordinary camera could soon take photos of things that
The sun is killing off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites
An artist’s impression of a Starlink satellite in orbit La Nacion/ZUMA Press/Alamy Eruptions from the sun are shortening the lives of satellites in Earth orbit,
Trump’s Golden Dome defence project could spur a space arms race
US President Donald Trump (left), accompanied by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (right), announces the Golden Dome missile defense shield CHRIS KLEPONIS/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock US President
Tianwen-2: China is readying a mission to two rocky bodies in our solar system
An artist’s impression of Earth’s quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa, the first destination of the Tianwen-2 mission Addy Graham/University of Arizona Final preparations are under way for China
US east coast faces rising seas as crucial Atlantic current slows
The AMOC is a system of ocean currents that circulates water within the Atlantic Ocean NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The slowdown of
What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans
What are we learning from the genomes of chimps and other apes? S.Tuengler/inafrica.de/Alamy This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the
How humans survived a global climate catastrophe 8200 years ago
Some, but not all, ancient humans reacted to a cooling event by migrating HENNING DALHOFF/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Roughly 4000 years after the last glacial period,
