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Science • May 01

NASAs STORIE Mission Explores Earths Ring Current

5 min read Earth's magnetic field is like a powerful trap. It lures electrically charged particles in space, near our planet, and snares them in an.

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Science • May 01

A Scientist Says Humans Were Designed to Live Much Longer If Dinosaurs Had Never Ruled Earth

What if a distant dinosaur-ruled world still shapes how fast we age today? A surprising scientific idea suggests our lifespan may have been limited long...

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Science • May 01

10,091 New Exoplanet Candidates Found In Largest Single Discovery Yet – “I'm Really Excited For The Future Of The Field”

In about three decades, humanity has gone from barely knowing that there were planets beyond the Solar System to confirming the presence of at least 6,273...

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Science • May 01

Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal

Scorpions are armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson, or stinger, on the posterior...

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Science • May 01

New lithium-plasma engine passes key Mars propulsion test

You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you're told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the smoothest ride you'll ever take.

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Science • May 01

Scientists Exposed Flies to Crushing Hypergravity. The Results Were Unexpected

Pests are, well, pesky because they simply won't go away. And in a terrifying turn of events, scientists found that the fruit fly—a super common kitchen...

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Science • May 01

Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Stops Alzheimer’s Protein Clumps From Forming

L-arginine helps protein droplets stay stable and prevents fibril formation linked to Alzheimer's. This process occurs at droplet surfaces,...

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Science • May 01

NASA’s STORIE Mission to Tell Tale of Earth’s Ring Current

NASA is preparing to launch a mission designed to provide a unique, inside-out view of the ring current. Called STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current.

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Science • May 01

Artemis II crew reveal the 1st food they ate after splashing down on Earth

Reid Wiseman tells CBS how fellow astronaut Christina Koch pulled out a bag of Peanut M&M's as they waited to be picked up from the Pacific Ocean.

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Science • May 01

AI tackles one of math's most brutal problems: Inverse PDEs

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical...

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Science • May 01

An Out of Control SpaceX Rocket Is Going to Smash Into Moon, Astronomer Says

The discarded upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will smash into the Moon this summer, according to a new report.

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Science • May 01

Artemis II crew gives 5-year-old aspiring astronaut Commander Jack a new spacesuit: "It says NASA!"

The Artemis II team gained a new member, and the crew made sure their youngest teammate had the right stuff for space.

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Science • May 01

Platypus Fur Hides a Microscopic Feature Only Birds Were Supposed to Have

The platypus shares a microscopic fur trait with birds, yet the way it uses that trait breaks every rule scientists thought applied to both.

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Science • May 01

Bridging continuous and discrete evolution through a controllable, hypermutagenic phage-bacteria system

Directed evolution methods face trade-offs between the control of discrete approaches and the throughput of modern continuous systems. Here, we engineered a...

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Science • May 01

DESI-HVS1 is an old hypervelocity star ejected from the galactic center, observations suggest

Chinese astronomers report the discovery of DESI-HVS1, which may be an old metal-poor hypervelocity star of galactic center origin. The finding, based on...

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Science • May 01

Hunting the elusive Eta Aquariid meteors

Early May is a good time to watch for a powerful yet often elusive meteor shower, the annual Eta Aquariids. They're a prolific, yet often elusive for...

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Science • May 01

Weird Quantum Gadget Spits Out Chaotic ‘Sound Particles’

Scientists can now sculpt the quantum states of tiny particles to their liking—an odd yet mind-blowing revolution leading to some fascinating inventions.

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Science • May 01

This Mysterious Red Object 11.8 Billion Light-Years Away May Solve One of Astronomy’s Biggest Puzzles

A faint, distant object emitting X-rays may finally clarify the nature of the enigmatic “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Science • May 01

Artemis II crew reveals what they ate right after splashdown: "I got some peanut M&Ms, anybody want some?"

The Artemis II astronauts said they actually really enjoyed the space food, but it was a familiar candy they enjoyed after splashing down in the Pacific...

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Science • May 01

Artemis II astronauts talk mission toilet troubles: "We made do"

The plumbing issues aboard the Orion capsule became headline news in the early days of the historic Artemis II mission.

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