By studying placentas from lost pregnancies, one doctor hopes to provide answers that are so often lacking after a miscarriage or stillbirth.

Placenta Research May Help Explain Pregnancy Loss

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The much-delayed crewed test flight is back on the calendar, despite a helium leak. Also, researchers used data from the crowd-sourcing nature observation app iNaturalist to rank animals’ tolerance of urban environments.

Starliner Crewed Test Flight Rescheduled | Slugs And Snails Like Cities

Metabolic markers could eventually result in a test for “biological age,” which considers how things other than time age the body.

Your ‘Biological Age’ Could Be Different Than How Old You Are

After decades of under-development, spending on high-speed rail projects is ramping up in California, Florida, and the Northeast Corridor.

High-Speed Rail Gets A Boost In The U.S.

A van outfitted as a mobile laboratory helps scientists study how legal cannabis products affect users—without breaking the law.

Using A Lab On Wheels To Study Weed From Dispensaries

For the first time, scientists have recorded how salps form chains and swim in corkscrews to reach the ocean’s surface each night. Also, a wind utility company in Wyoming is trying to make wind turbines more visible to birds by painting just one blade black.

Placenta Research May Help Explain Pregnancy Loss

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