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NASA is recruiting volunteers to help track the path of the Artemis II mission that is sending a crew to orbit the Moon.

There was nothing Bill Belichick or his son, defensive coordinator Steve Belichick, could do to stop it. Desperately trying to get back in the game after cutting UCF’s lead to 27-9, the North Carolina defense needed to force some quick three-and-outs in the fourth quarter to have any sort of hope at making it a game.Instead, UCF had its way with UNC on an 18-play, 93-yard touchdown drive that took up 10:36 of game time and definitively extinguished any faint hope the Belichicks had at avoiding their second loss of the season. They sat there helpless as one of football’s finest…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Earth is made of cycles. If you think back to high school Earth science class, you might remember the water cycle, the rock cycle, and the oxygen cycle, to name just a few. These natural processes continuously recycle our planet’s materials, maintaining the environment that hosts life as we know it.  The nutrient cycle is another crucial example of our planet’s constant churn. Part of the cycle consists of plants consuming nutrients from the soil, herbivores consuming nutrients from the plants, and then redelivering the nutrients…

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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureProblems go beyond Optus in regional communities: LittleproudNationals leader David Littleproud has joined the government in condemning Optus over the outage of an essential service that is thought to have led to four deaths across the country.Speaking to Weekend Today on Sunday morning, Littleproud described the failure by the company as “abhorrent behaviour”. They have a responsibility. This is a universal service and a universal right for Australians to be able to use in our hour of need. The fact that Optus has just in some blase way ignored…

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features another one of those purple categories where you need to play with the letters in the word to figure out their connection. It’s fun, but tricky. Need help? Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze…

Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, on Wednesday signed into law a bill that lets people sue anyone suspected of manufacturing, distributing or mailing abortion pills to or from Texas. The first-of-its-kind law is almost certain to dramatically escalate the state-by-state showdown over abortion laws in the post Roe v Wade United States – especially as some out-of-state abortion providers have already vowed that they will continue shipping pills to Texans.“Our mantra as a practice is: ‘No anticipatory obedience’,” said Dr Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (Map), a Boston-area based group that uses telemedicine…

Sonny Curtis, a one-time member of Buddy Holly’s backing band the Crickets who later penned and performed the hit theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died at the age of 88. Curtis’ daughter Sarah confirmed her father’s death Saturday on social media. “I’m heartbroken to tell you that my dad Sonny passed away yesterday after a sudden illness. I’m so grateful that I was with him at the end, along with my mom. It was peaceful and he didn’t suffer,” Sarah Curtis wrote. “He was 88 and he lived a more exceptional life than anyone I’d ever…

Bayern Munich maintained their flawless start in the Bundesliga by beating Hoffenheim 4-1 away on Saturday after Harry Kane netted two penalties and bagged his ninth hat-trick for the German league leaders.It was Kane’s second hat-trick of the campaign, after a second-half treble in their season opener against RB Leipzig, and he moved five clear at the top of the scoring charts with eight league goals in four matches.The victory moved Bayern up to 12 points while Hoffenheim are six points behind in eighth place.With Christian Ilzer’s Hoffenheim in the ascendancy, Vincent Kompany’s Bayern looked as if they might be…

Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2025 recipients of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes. Yes, it’s that time of year again, when the serious and the silly converge—for science.Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor “achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.” The unapologetically campy awards ceremony features miniature operas,…