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Science • Aug 04

An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

Off the coast of what is now Peterborough, England, an ichthyosaur—a prehistoric marine reptile that resembled an oversize dolphin—was presumably going...

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Science • Aug 04

NASA puts Crew-13's launch-pad escape in the hands of the 11-times-recalled Cybertruck

Making a hasty exit away from the launch pad should something go wrong is important, obviously, but given the potentially destructive power of a rocket,...

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Science • Aug 04

Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber

Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it's even more difficult for entangled states. The longer the fiber, the harder it...

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Science • Aug 04

Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber

Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it's even more difficult for entangled states. The longer the fiber, the harder it...

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Science • Aug 04

I bought this used telescope on Facebook for under $50

Buying a used telescope online can save you hundreds, so I bought one for 50 bucks on Facebook to see if it was good for astrophotography and stargazing.

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Science • Aug 04

On Mars, a dust storm in 2018 grew large enough to cover the entire planet, blocking sunlight for months and draining the solar panels of the Opportunity rover until it went silent — ending a mission that had lasted 15 years

A planetary dust storm so vast it choked an entire world, yet so gentle it couldn't topple a hat—a paradox that revealed how fragile even our most durable...

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Science • Aug 04

NASA has approved one of its strangest missions yet: Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered drone the size of a car that will fly across Saturn's moon Titan, the one place beyond Earth with rain, rivers and seas, hunting for the chemistry that comes before life

NASA has committed to something that still sounds like science fiction when you say it plainly. It is going to fly a drone around another world.

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Science • Aug 04

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts.

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Science • Aug 04

The tidy diagram of our solar system is misleading: the Sun holds about 99.86 per cent of its mass, Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in 2012 yet the true edge may lie more than a light-year further out, and astronomers still suspect an undiscovered planet b

The diagram we all grew up with, a tidy row of planets strung out like beads at neat intervals, is one of the most misleading pictures in science.

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Science • Aug 04

Spending months in space quietly rebuilds an astronaut's body: bones thin, the heart shrinks, fluid floods the head and can reshape the eyes, and NASA's study of twins found some of the changes still had not fully reversed months after landing

We tend to picture astronauts as peak physical specimens, and to get the job they are. The more interesting story is what happens to that body once it is up...

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Science • Aug 04

Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster on Neptune’s moons

WASHINGTON: New observations of some of Neptune's moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of years ago around the...

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Science • Aug 04

NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions

With a Falcon 9 upper stage set to hit the moon this week, SpaceX says it is working with NASA on ways to prevent similar collisions in the future.

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Science • Aug 04

Sketching Temporary Circuits With A Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator

In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological...

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Science • Aug 04

See it: NASA's Curiosity rover captures stunning images of honeycomb-like textures while exploring Mars

While NASA's Curiosity rover was exploring the dry, desert planet, it stumbled across honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each measuring...

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Science • Aug 04

NASA’s Crew-13 on track for mid-September launch from Florida’s Space Coast

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission remains on schedule to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than September 12 from Cape...

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Science • Aug 04

NASA’s Crew-13 on track for mid-September launch from Florida’s Space Coast

Commander Jessica Watkins leads the Crew-13 mission, which is set to launch from Cape Canaveral in mid-September.

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Science • Aug 04

'Doomsday' fears explode as three chilling cosmic events collide on same day next week

Apocalypse fears have swept social media as three spectacular celestial events are set to unfold within hours of each other on one day next week.

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Science • Aug 04

UNF grad turned astronaut to take first mission to space in September

A University of North Florida graduate is heading to space. Astronaut Luke Delaney will pilot NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space...

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Science • Aug 04

Venus is almost exactly Earth's size and formed right beside us, yet its surface melts lead under an atmosphere ninety times heavier than ours, a runaway greenhouse that turned our nearest twin into the most hostile world in the solar system

Venus is the planet most like Earth in the ways that are easy to measure, and the least like it in every way that matters. It is almost exactly our size,...

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Science • Aug 03

Memory chips cut computing power 59-fold, may trim satellite weight by 2,000 pounds

A new SRAM chip design could cut space telescope computing power 59-fold and reduce spacecraft weight for exoplanet missions.

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