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SpaceX’s record-breaking Dragon capsule delivers 6,500 pounds of cargo to ISS

SpaceX's CRS-34 mission has successfully delivered 6500 pounds of science cargo to the ISS using sixth-flight Dragon capsule.

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Science • May 18

SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight Test

The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 19, for a new version of SpaceX's Starship megarocket to undertake a critical test flight.

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Science • May 18

The “impossible” LED that could change everything

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have achieved what was once considered impossible by electrically powering insulating nanoparticles to create a...

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Science • May 18

The moon is moving away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres per year — which means the total solar eclipses humans alive today get to see are something no future civilisation will ever witness

The Earth-Moon geometry that produces total solar eclipses is a temporary coincidence in deep time, and the spiral measurement that confirms it comes from...

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Science • May 18

Starwatch: A young crescent moon journeys past Venus and Jupiter

Keep an eye on the western sky after sunset this week to watch a beautiful sequence unfold over several evenings. A young crescent moon moves first past...

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Science • May 18

A single human exhale contains roughly 25 sextillion molecules, and the air on Earth is mixed thoroughly enough that statistically, every breath you take contains at least one molecule that was exhaled by Julius Caesar, by Cleopatra, and by every human who

You just inhaled around 25 sextillion molecules of air. That's 25 followed by 21 zeroes. Even trying to write it out — 25,000,000,000,000,000,000,000...

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Science • May 18

Stephen Hawking spent the final years of his life convinced humanity had to become a multi-planet species before this century was out — and almost every risk he warned about has accelerated since he died

In the eight years since, the world has done something genuinely strange. It has confirmed, item by item, almost every warning he spent his final decade...

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Science • May 18

Great Balls of Fire

An astronaut on the International Space Station was surprised to photograph a shower of light streaking through the darkness while looking out of the...

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Science • May 18

The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission

The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, roughly 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, and runs on about one...

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Science • May 18

Chinese space station launches pioneering experiment on human reproduction in space

AKIPRESS.COM - The Chinese orbital station Tiangong has launched the world's first experiment aimed at studying the feasibility of human reproduction in...

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Science • May 18

Physicists Observe Strange Quantum Rotation Effect That Defies Intuition

Researchers discovered that atomic rotations inside a crystal can unexpectedly flip direction while still obeying the laws of angular momentum conservation.

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Science • May 18

There is a moment near death, documented in EEG recordings of dying patients, when the brain produces a coordinated burst of gamma wave activity more intense than anything measured in waking life — and no one knows what it is, what it's for, or what the

In the final minutes of life, the dying brain has been observed producing a synchronized surge of high-frequency electrical activity that exceeds anything...

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Science • May 18

The ISS travels at 17,500 miles per hour, which means astronauts inside it are aging measurably slower than people on the ground, and by the time Scott Kelly returned from his year in orbit he was 5 milliseconds younger than his identical twin brother Mark.

At 17500 mph, the ISS produces real relativistic time dilation. After 340 days in orbit, Scott Kelly returned roughly 5 milliseconds younger than his...

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Science • May 18

Fluorescent RNA sensor gets 10 times more sensitive for water safety

Water is largely tasteless to humans. But to the microbial world, it is anything but. Bacteria that live in contaminated environments have spent millions of...

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Science • May 17

SpaceX reschedules 12th Starship launch

STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX announced it has rescheduled its twelfth Starship test flight. The anticipated launch was originally scheduled to...

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Science • May 17

SpaceX Launch, Google I/O Headline a Big News Week in Tech

This should be an action-packed week in tech news, what with Nvidia's first-quarter earnings, Google's annual I/O developer conference and Meta Platforms'...

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Science • May 17

A mind-bending mystery of our Sun has finally been solved

One of the most enduring and mysterious puzzles surrounding our Sun may finally have been solved after decades of research.

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Science • May 17

Scientists Discover Ancient “Language Switches” Hidden in Human DNA

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

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Science • May 17

eROSITA discovers a 'changing-look' Seyfert galaxy

Astronomers have tracked a dramatic "changing-look" active galactic nucleus (AGN) whose central supermassive black hole appeared to switch off and then...

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