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Science • Jun 17

Startup Katalyst Aims To Boost NASA Telescope On Its Space Debut

Startup Katalyst prepares June 27 to demonstrate satellite reboost services on NASA's Swift telescope using its LINK spacecraft.

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Science • Jun 17

First Upgraded Ariane 6 Rocket Launches 36 Satellites for Amazon

Arianespace has launched 36 Amazon satellites aboard the first Ariane 6 rocket to be equipped with upgraded P160C solid-fuel boosters.

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Science • Jun 17

Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early Universe

JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source of the high-energy neutrino event...

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Science • Jun 17

Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that keeps time for roughly a billion years.

The uranium-238 electroplated onto the Voyager record cover really is a clock a finder could read. But with a half-life of 4.51 billion years it keeps time...

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Science • Jun 17

Upgraded Ariane 6 launches Amazon Leo satellites

An Ariane 6 with upgraded solid rocket boosters launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites June 17 as ESA weighs options for increasing the vehicle's launch rate.

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Science • Jun 17

Asteroid the size of 38 Lubavitcher Rebbes to pass Earth on Chabad head's yahrzeit - NASA

An asteroid around the size of 38 Lubavitcher Rebbes is set to pass the Earth on Thursday, June 18, which is the anniversary of the Rebbe's death,...

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Science • Jun 17

Radar Observations Reveal New Clues about Europa’s Hidden Interior

Using NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar and NSF's Green Bank Telescope, astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles, confirmed that the icy...

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Science • Jun 17

James Webb Space Telescope discovers extreme exoplanet is being roasted by its home star

Who ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world that really puts the "hot" in "Hot Jupiter."

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Science • Jun 17

Human Error Caused a $4.1 Million Mishap at NASA’s Deep Space Network

NASA officials wrapped up an investigation into an incident that caused significant damage to one of its largest Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas,...

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Science • Jun 17

Webb Uncovers Survivor from the Milky Way's Chaotic Early Years, Confirms it as Prototype of Bulge Fossil Fragment

New data has now shown why. Observations collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, working alongside archival records from the...

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Science • Jun 17

'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists tried splitting a photon — and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles

Physicists recently wondered what would happen if you tried to split a photon ‪—‬ and they found some unexpected behavior that may transform the way we...

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Science • Jun 17

NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each...

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Science • Jun 17

Earth May Have Accidentally Been Sprinkling Europa With Life Since Before Animals Existed

Hundreds of sextillions of dust grains may have escaped Earth and reached Europa, raising intriguing questions about the possible transfer of life through...

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Science • Jun 17

Cockroach genomes are packed with DNA transferred by their endosymbiont bacterial partners

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, even between different species.

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Science • Jun 17

Skin and color pattern of 125-million-year-old crocodile revealed by extraordinary fossil from the Pyrenees

A new study published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society describes, for the first time in detail, the soft tissues preserved in Montsecosuchus...

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Science • Jun 17

In December 1938 a museum curator sifting through a fisherman's catch in a South African port lifted out a heavy blue fish that science had known only from fossils and presumed extinct since the age of the dinosaurs

On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer took a taxi to the docks at East London, a port on South Africa's east coast, to look through a trawler's...

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Science • Jun 17

How Dolphins Avoid 'Troublesome' Males: Study Reveals Surprising Strategy

The team recorded the signature whistles of 11 adult males and played them to 17 wild females through underwater speakers.

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Science • Jun 17

Ariane 6 launches with more powerful boosters: a new record for Europe

Europe's heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites to orbit today. The launcher featured four upgraded boosters with 14 tonnes more...

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Science • Jun 17

New Scenario for Cosmic Neutrino Events | NAOJ - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), with help from a 'natural telescope' formed by gravity, have identified the...

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Science • Jun 17

'They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option': A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smarts

Corvids, including ravens and crows, have earned a reputation for being some of the smartest birds on Earth. They can recognize human faces, use tools,...

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