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Science • Apr 14

Folks in Upstate capture pictures, video of SpaceX launch

Folks around the Upstate area of South Carolina caught pictures and video of the SpaceX launch early Tuesday morning.

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Science • Apr 14

Strange creature found inside jellyfish. Scientists say it's the "first time this behaviour is documented"

Jellyfish enjoy seasonal produce too. When the bottom-dwelling worms of Denmark's fjords rise up in summer to spawn, they are predated by the resident...

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Science • Apr 14

Artemis 2 calling ISS! Watch the farthest-ever astronaut call from the moon to Earth (video)

Astronauts aboard Artemis 2 and the ISS connected across a record-breaking Earth–moon distance in the farthest crew call ever made in space.

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Science • Apr 14

The Challenge the Artemis II Crew Gave the Rest of Us

As a reporter covering NASA during the early 1980s, I quickly grew accustomed to close encounters with real-life space legends. All part of the job.

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Science • Apr 14

Axiom Space plans 2027 flight test of spacesuit

Axiom Space expects to test the spacesuit it is developing for Artemis lunar missions in space in 2027, either on the space station or Artemis 3.

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Science • Apr 14

Nearby Star Seen 'Blowing Bubbles' for the First Time in New Image from Chandra Telescope

Astronomers have nicknamed the HD 61005 star system the “Moth” because it is surrounded by dust patterned similarly to the shape of a moth.

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Science • Apr 14

Scientists Find 7,000-Year-Old Sahara Skeletons With DNA That Doesn’t Belong to Any Modern Humans

A Pair of 7000-Year-Old Sahara Skeletons Revealed a Hidden Human Lineage With a Story Stranger Than Expected.

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Science • Apr 14

Quantum Reality Gets Stranger: Physicists Put a Lump of Metal in Two Places at Once

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in multiple states at once.

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Science • Apr 14

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch bright and visible in Tuesday pre-dawn sky

It wasn't a meteor or a comet. It was SpaceX's most recent Falcon 9 rocket.

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Science • Apr 14

Shattering Einstein’s block universe rescues the flow of time

Einstein's theory of relativity appears to drain time of its most familiar feature: its flow. If spacetime is a four-dimensional block, as many physicists...

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Science • Apr 14

Physicists witness pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of light — without breaking the laws of relativity

For the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of light.

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Science • Apr 14

The moon's oldest and darkest craters could be hiding the most water ice. That's good news for future astronauts

New research shows that craters near the moon's south pole that have been in permanent shadow the longest are more likely to contain the most water ice.

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Science • Apr 14

Study finds millions of ground-nesting bees thriving in Ithaca cemetery

A quiet cemetery in Ithaca has become the unlikely home to one of the largest known populations of ground-nesting bees in the world, according to new...

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Science • Apr 14

Comet Tracker: How To See Pan-STARRS And Three Planets On Wednesday — Before It’s Gone

A brightening comet is becoming easier to see before sunrise from across the Northern Hemisphere — and the morning of Wednesday, April 15, offers one of the...

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Science • Apr 14

Ancient graves and DNA uncover family bonds that went beyond genetics

You probably have a member of your family that you're not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom's best friend who you grew up...

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Science • Apr 14

Mini lake meets snowy rim of Canada's oldest ice mass — Earth from space

A 2010 satellite photo shows the point where a small lake bisects the snowy rim of an ancient glacier on Canada's Baffin Island. The rippling, snow-rimmed...

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Science • Apr 13

Suddenly obsessed with space after Artemis II? Here are some exciting events to watch out for.

There are more moon missions, new ultra-powerful telescopes, groundbreaking probes and more reasons to keep your eyes on the skies.

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Science • Apr 13

Stone Age tombs in Scotland reveal 'webs of descent' among male relatives

An analysis of DNA from Stone Age skeletons buried in Scotland reveals how people organized the burial of their dead.

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Science • Apr 13

How Quantum Mechanics Went From Baffling Theory to Revolutionizing Modern Technology

Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.

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Science • Apr 13

Self-interacting dark matter may solve three cosmic puzzles

A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a new type of dark matter could explain three astrophysical puzzles across vastly different...

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