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NASA is bringing back its historic worm logo to decorate the agency’s first crew-bearing rocket being sent to the moon in decades. NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems began painting the bright red logo on the Space Launch System’s two solid rocket boosters last month at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the agency’s Artemis II mission, the …
A gaggle of students from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh traveled to Florida last month during their winter break. The students, many of them studying to be engineers and scientists, went there to watch a rocket launch that would send a small 4.8-pound robotic rover that they had helped build on its journey to …
Much of the American space program is run out of nondescript offices in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. That’s where Kam Ghaffarian, the billionaire space entrepreneur, could be found on an auspicious day. Exactly 47 years before, he had immigrated to the United States from Iran. Mr. Ghaffarian, 66, sat at a table made of …
About 4.6 million adults in the U.S. have a peanut allergy, according to a study published by the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2021. Patrick Sison/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Sison/AP About 4.6 million adults in the U.S. have a peanut allergy, according to a study published by the Journal of …
Growing up, I thought of myself as a “horse girl”. I knew the importance of keeping your heels down and your back straight, how to braid your horse’s mane for dressage, and that real horse girlies mucked out the stalls themselves. I could navigate the febrile politics of a stable, handle the intensity of …
The national body that certifies lactation consultants is investigating whether a consultant in Boise, Idaho, has been inappropriately pushing an unproven procedure on new mothers struggling to breastfeed, according to a letter reviewed by The New York Times. The lactation consultant, Melanie Henstrom, was featured in an investigation by The Times that examined the …
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lifileucel (Amtagvi, Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.) for the treatment of certain adults with unresectable or metastatic melanoma, marking the first approval of a cellular therapy in the solid tumor setting. Specifically, the tumor-derived autologous T-cell immunotherapy is indicated for adult patients previously treated with a programmed …
“If you only report on the nurses leaving, and don’t account for those who are coming in, you can create some scary sounding headlines.” — David Auerbach, PhD, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the rebound of the registered nurse workforce following a pandemic slump. “It’s still the reality to the patient, and …
George Resch, who goes by TankSinatra on social media, recently mentioned that he had an addiction to the over-the-counter nasal spray Afrin. “I have been congested for a year,” he said on the podcast Meme Daddies. How does that happen? Plenty of over-the-counter medications — those that are sold on pharmacy and grocery store …
“A Very Chinese Cookbook” does not look like most of the output from the publishing arm of America’s Test Kitchen. For one thing, there’s that cheeky title — and even cheekier subtitle: “100 Recipes From China & Not China (But Still Really Chinese).” But more to the point, in addition to the characteristic red …