NASA, Roscosmos disagree on risk of “catastrophic failure” from ISS air leak "This is a an engineering problem, and good engineers should be able to agree on it."

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The ISS has been leaking air for 5 years, and engineers still don’t know why

This is a an engineering problem, and good engineers should be able to agree on it."

Nearly half of US thinks scientists are smug; study finds humility helps Intellectual humility could win back much-needed trust in science, study finds

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Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.

Intellectual humility could win back much-needed trust in science...

To invent the wheel, did people first have to invent the spindle? The physics of spinning objects may have seeded concepts key to the wheel.

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Key wheel ideas may have come from weaving

The tools used to make threads could have seeded concepts that eventually led to the wheel.

The amorous adventures of earwigs Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism)—earwigs have a lot going for them.

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The amorous adventures of earwigs

Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism)—earwigs have a lot going for them.