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It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.

A tiny new species of ladybird beetle was discovered on a pine tree at Kyushu University, proving that unknown wildlife can exist right under our noses. The research also uncovered a second new species and corrected decades of confusion about several closely related beetles.

Drug, alcohol and suicide deaths fell in the US, Colombia outlawed FGM and a bird staged a comeback, plus more The post What went right this week: public health wins, plus more appeared first on Positive News.

Hato Hone St John, CC BY-SA In New Zealand, ambulance crews treat about seven people a day who are in cardiac arrest, meaning their heart is no longer pumping blood to vital organs. Sadly, fewer than one in eight are likely to survive. But as our new study shows, more lives could be saved if commun...

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, June 12, 2026 Rather than going from stage to stage at a music festival to hear different bands playing different varieties of music, Curiosity has been ascending up Mount Sharp through physic...

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NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, as well as astronauts in space. The DAPHNE (Dyn...

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Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history. Formed as fragments coalesced after a violent coll...