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Science • Apr 13

UPDATE: Next SpaceX launch from Vandenberg SFB planned for Tuesday

UPDATE: (Tuesday, 5:42 p.m.) - Tuesday night's launch has been pushed back to 9:29 p.m.. ——. SpaceX is targeting Tuesday night for its next Falcon 9 launch...

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Science • Apr 13

Why we need to work out like astronauts

Now that the Artemis II crew are back on Earth, more work — or at least workouts — will commence. In space an astronaut's body is tested to new limits.

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Science • Apr 13

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course

Supermassive black holes are believed to be at the heart of every galaxy, but how did they get so big? Likely by gobbling up other black holes,...

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Science • Apr 13

The Lyrids meteor shower will soon put on a show. When to look up

Meteor showers will begin to light up the night sky, kicking off the season with the Lyrids. The Lyrids meteor shower is set to begin on Tuesday, April 14,...

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Science • Apr 13

Navy Dive Medical Recovery Team Provides Initial Care to Artemis II Crew

A Navy dive medical team served as the first responders for the Artemis II crew, providing critical assessments and assistance during their safe splashdown...

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Science • Apr 13

Artemis II Commander Praises SpaceX Founder Elon Musk After Mars Sighting During Lunar Flyby, Says 'Zero Doubt' Humans Will Reach It Soon

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman praised SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Saturday after the crew spotted Mars during their lunar flyby, saying there is "zero...

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Science • Apr 13

‘Thrilling’ embryo fossil discovery upends everything we knew about how early mammals gave birth: ‘Breaks entirely new ground’

You can't make a mammal-ette without laying some eggs. The duck-billed platypus wasn't the only mammal to lay eggs. Analysis of a fossil in South Africa...

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Science • Apr 13

Top GOP lawmaker pushes back on NASA’s budget cuts

A key Republican in charge of funding NASA opposes Trump administration plans to slash the agency's budget — and signaled that lawmakers plan to reverse...

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Science • Apr 13

'Really, really weird': Physicists entangle two moving atoms for the first time, validating 'spooky' quantum theory

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the momentum of massive particles. The result, decades in the making,...

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Science • Apr 13

Mount Etna breaks volcano rules, tapping 80-kilometer-deep magma in a rare fourth category of eruption

Located in Sicily, Mount Etna is Europe's most active volcano. Yet its origin remains largely enigmatic, as no existing geological model fully explains how...

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Science • Apr 13

The sun is tearing an asteroid to pieces, and Earth is now flying through the fallout

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these...

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Science • Apr 13

Huge Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo ship arrives at space station

The uncrewed Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft, the S.S. Steven R. Nagel, arrived at the International Space Station on Monday (April 13), bringing with...

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Science • Apr 13

NASA Pulls Plug on Mars Mission, Leaving China to Chase Signs of Life

NASA's Mars Sample Return program has been canceled, leaving China poised to become the first to retrieve material and possibly signs of life from Mars.

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Science • Apr 13

Looking to Profit From the Artemis II Mission? Buy RocketLab and AeroVironment Stocks.

Artemis II has sparked fresh investor interest in space. Rocket Lab and AeroVironment emerge as solid next-gen stocks to buy in an evolving defense and...

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Science • Apr 13

This week saw humanity at its worst. Artemis II told the opposite story | Flynn Coleman

We send the voice of the dead across space as an act of continuity and care, while on Earth we tally the bodies. Which do we choose to become?

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Science • Apr 13

How Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman saved the mission's moon mascot: 'It's hard not to love this little guy. I can't let Rise out of my sight'

Rise joined the Artemis 2 crew as a mascot of the moon, bearing 5.6 million names. But the mascot quickly took on a new meaning.

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Science • Apr 13

Ultrasound creates light inside the body, opening a new path to targeted treatments

Light has an increasing number of applications in biology and medicine—it can be used to stimulate cell growth, manipulate neural signals, and treat some...

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Science • Apr 13

De novo formation of cis -regulatory contacts in the absence of NIPBL-driven chromatin loop extrusion

NIPBL promotes chromatin loop extrusion by the cohesin complex until it stalls at convergently oriented CTCF sites, forming structural loops.

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Science • Apr 13

82 NASA missions at risk under new proposal

Proposed NASA cuts would reduce NASA's workforce by thousands and cancel over 50 space missions.

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Science • Apr 13

NASA supercomputer made very worrying prediction for when the world will end

We have about five billion years until the Sun expands and swallows Earth, but life on the planet will not last that long.

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