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Science • Jun 02

NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base

A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars.

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Science • Jun 02

There is a planet 63 light-years from Earth where the rain is made of molten glass, the winds blow at 7,000 kilometres per hour, the daytime temperature is over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the planet itself, viewed from space, is the same deep blue as Earth.

The planet's name is HD 189733b. It is one of the closest extrasolar planets to Earth that can be studied in detail, and one of the most thoroughly...

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Science • Jun 02

More than 60% of the water in a wood frog's body can freeze solid each winter: its heart stops, it stops breathing, and for more than 7 months it can lie essentially a frogsicle, before it thaws out in spring and simply hops away

Freezing solid is supposed to be the end. Ice forming inside a body generally stops the chemistry of life. For almost every animal on Earth, that is exactly...

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Science • Jun 02

For satellites as small as a briefcase, getting around in space just got a whole lot easier

MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters with the precision and...

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Science • Jun 02

T. Rex Had "Human-Sized Arms On A Bus-Sized Animal" – Now We Have The Best Explanation Yet For Why

The idea that T. rex's tiny arms were a consequence of its large, powerful skull isn't new – but a study of 85 theropod species pulls together some...

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Science • Jun 02

Massive Booms Shook the East Coast for over 300 Years. Scientists Finally Found the Source of the Sonic Explosions.

The cannon-like sound could be heard for hundreds of miles, but its cause long remained a mystery.

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Science • Jun 02

Dormant black hole revives in under three years, brightening 10-fold in nearby galaxy

Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake up, brightening by a factor of 10...

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Science • Jun 02

Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms

Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth

A new paper in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics has put forth an intriguing theory: A so-far unexplainable neutrino could have been...

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth

A gigantic "blazar" may have fired a beam of light-speed particles at our planet, creating a 2023 "ghost particle" detection.

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Science • Jun 02

Massive fireball meteor lights up Ohio skies Monday night

TOLEDO, Ohio — A bright fireball meteor lit up the night sky Monday across northern Ohio and southern Michigan, generating hundreds of reports from...

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Science • Jun 02

Molecular glasses solve long-standing Arrhenius paradox

Glasses are non-crystalline but solid states of matter in which molecules and atoms are not arranged into a regular crystal lattice, but rather in a...

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Science • Jun 02

Mystery of Bible's legendary Garden of Eden river finally solved after 1.6m years

Scientists have solved the 1.6-million-year-old mystery of how the Bible's iconic Euphrates River formed following ancient tectonic shifts and mega-floods.

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Science • Jun 02

Fireball spotted across Illinois and 8 other states Monday night, nearly 200 reports filed

Sightings of a fireball were reported across Illinois and at least eight other states on Monday night.

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Science • Jun 02

Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian

Across invertebrates, DNA methylation is largely restricted to the bodies of highly and constitutively expressed genes. This pattern has led to the...

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists Discover a Hidden Cause of Cellular Aging That Can Be Reversed

Scientists identified phosphatidylcholine loss as a key driver of mitochondrial aging and showed that restoring it can rejuvenate cellular energy networks.

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Science • Jun 02

Uncertainty about weakening Atlantic currents isn’t a reason to wait but to act (commentary)

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the system of ocean currents that mediates weather on both sides of the Atlantic, and research...

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Science • Jun 02

Astronomers discover exoplanets with magnetic fields

Based on the behavior of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest evidence to date that planets beyond our solar...

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Science • Jun 02

This fish species survived 100,000 years without males. Scientists thought it should be long dead – but it's thriving

All-female species have been long thought to be evolutionary dead ends. So how has one remarkable fish survived for 100,000 years without males?

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists took water samples from a pier in California – and made a surprising discovery about a "ruthless predator"

There's a "ruthless predator" in the ocean that harpoons its prey and feasts on the toxic algae that can harm ecosystems when it forms huge blooms.

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