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Science • May 17

From Lab to Life: Cancer Breakthroughs in Space

Depositphotos.com. The latest Science Friday podcast reports that “an upcoming resupply mission will carry [cancer] tumor samples to the International Space...

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Science • May 17

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material

During the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert—the world's very first test of an atomic bomb—a new material spontaneously formed...

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Science • May 17

Strange Metal From Beyond Our World Spotted in an Ancient Treasure Stash

Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.

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Science • May 17

The James Webb Space Telescope is currently observing galaxies that formed 13 billion years ago, and several of them shouldn't exist according to the model cosmologists were using when Webb launched

JWST was launched to test a cosmological model, and within its first two years of operation, it began returning observations that the model in its standard...

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Science • May 17

The International Space Station is travelling at 17,500 mph as you read this, and the astronauts inside it are aging measurably slower than you are

The International Space Station is moving at roughly 7.8 kilometres per second relative to the ground beneath it, completing an orbit every 90 to 93 minutes...

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Science • May 17

10 Gems of Bluesky Today – Day 343

Greetings everyone. I'm writing this from my phone, which is doable, but a little clunky. One problem is that I can't see image attributions from the image…

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Science • May 17

Stunning 150-million-year-old stegosaur skull rewrites dinosaur evolution

A spectacular dinosaur discovery in Spain is giving scientists a rare new look inside the world of stegosaurs. Paleontologists uncovered the best-preserved...

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Science • May 17

A cargo Dragon just flew its sixth mission to the ISS — and the quiet milestone reveals how SpaceX has rewritten the economics of station resupply without anyone making a fuss about it

SpaceX launched its 34th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station on May 15, and the Dragon capsule on top of the Falcon 9 was flying its...

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Science • May 17

Saturn's rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they'll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all

The figure most people remember from the 2018 ring rain study is the Olympic swimming pool. Saturn, according to the team led by James O'Donoghue of NASA's...

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Science • May 16

North America Braces for a Rare Aurora Borealis Weekend Travel Spectacle as Solar Storm Activity Transforms Canada and the Northern US into a Glowing Night-Sky Tourism Corridor

A rare geomagnetic storm is expected to enhance aurora borealis visibility across Canada and northern United States, creating a unique travel opportunity as...

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Science • May 16

Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasite

The Greenland shark has become a fixture of popular science writing in the way of a small number of charismatic creatures: the immortal jellyfish,...

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Science • May 16

NASA releases final RFP for Mars communications orbiter

NASA has released the final request for proposals for a Mars telecommunications system, confirming requirements that limit the companies that can bid on it.

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Science • May 16

Dark Matter May Have Been Detected by Accident, Scientists Reveal

We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019.

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Science • May 16

Mysterious fault’s quake brakes may hold secret to stopping tremors: Study

Researchers have discovered the mechanism behind hidden barriers that stop earthquakes from snowballing.

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Science • May 16

Meet The Axolotl — The Salamander That Can Regrow Its Own Brain

The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution's most astonishing survival abilities: functional brain...

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Science • May 16

Scientists Discover 100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Tiny Creature Trapped in Amber with Claws Seen Only Four Times in Insects

Deep in 100-million-year-old amber, a tiny creature has been frozen in time, and its unusual features are captivating scientists around the world.

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Science • May 16

North America poised for light display of aurora borealis

Brilliant splashes of green, purple and pink will streak the night sky for many stargazers in North America on Saturday and Sunday night, as energized...

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Science • May 16

Scientist’s intriguing new theory on Great Pyramid — and how it could be used to communicate with the cosmos

Iranian scientist Jala Jafari claims that the pyramids may have been celestial transmitters used to communicate with intelligent extraterrestrials.

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Science • May 16

What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur‑killing asteroid armageddon: a blow‑by‑blow account

by Michael J. Benton, University of Bristol and Monica Grady, The Open University. A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her...

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Science • May 16

The Vespera III and Vespera Pro 2 have arrived.

Vaonis has released its latest models, the Vespera III and the Vespera Pro 2, packed with a new optical design for sharper image quality.

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