The California startup Vast has opened a call for scientific research aboard its Haven-1 private space station, which is set ...

The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine will send a series of human health research experiments aboard the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, the first ...

Scientists can submit research proposals to fly experiments on Vast’s Haven-1 private space station, planned to launch in 2026 as part of the shift toward commercial space research ...

Explore how new modules, racks, and specialized facilities on NASA’s International Space Station expanded research potential, enabling diverse experiments in microgravity and increasing access for ...

Personnel with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) conducted a construction experiment on South ...

Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s three human spaceflight missions, announced today the extensive suite of science and research experiments the crew and SpaceX will conduct throughout ...

The University of Colorado Boulder will award about $872,000 across 16 new research projects through its 2026 Research and ...

Scientific research is a messy business. The road to learning new things and making discoveries is paved with hard labor, tough thinking, and plenty of dead ends. It’s a time-consuming, expensive ...

‘Focused research organizations’ can take on mid-scale projects that don’t get tackled by academia, venture capitalists or government labs. It takes more than a great idea to accomplish a great ...

After all the controversy over the past few years about gain-of-function research on viruses, especially the Covid-19 virus, I thought this kind of work was on hold, at least in the U.S. Indeed, the ...

A decade ago, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets to engineer a highly lethal flu virus. The purpose of the research — known as “gain of function” — was to better ...