laboratory research

The International Space Station is focusing on advanced health research this week while it awaits the arrival of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission. Experiments aboard the orbiting laboratory are examining how the human body responds to long-duration spaceflight, work that supports future deep-space missions. Attention now turns to the upcoming crew launch and docking at the station.

Researchers report a discovery with implications for understanding how life began, made in a modest $80-a-night motel room rather than a laboratory. The unlikely setting has drawn attention alongside the scientific claim itself, with readers discussing how simple, low-cost conditions could produce findings relevant to one of science's biggest open questions.