The State of the Planet in 10 Numbers

Space Exploration

SpaceX Starship’s Second Flight Was an Explosive Milestone

SpaceX’s Starship—the most powerful rocket ever built—experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” in its otherwise successful second full-scale launch, triggering a federal investigation into what went wrong...

Mike Wall and SPACE.com

Ethics

Moral Righteousness Can Worsen Conflict

Research on morality shows that it can counterintuitively impede peace and progress

Joshua Rottman | Opinion

Health Care

A Black Physician Takes on Racism in Medicine

Physician Uché Blackstock talks about her experience of the huge health disparities faced by Black Americans in her new book Legacy

Lucy Tu

Animals

Do Squirrels Remember Where They Buried Their Nuts?

Squirrels spread their fall bounty across several locations. But do they have a key to this treasure map?

Emma Bryce

Defense

If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It?

The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that...

Ella Weber