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Science • Jun 30

NASA makes moves to dodge costly delays on its path to build a $30 billion moon base

Conceptualized just a few months ago, NASA's moon base plans are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to deliver assets to the lunar...

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Science • Jun 30

NASA makes moves to dodge costly delays on its path to build a $30 billion moon base

Conceptualized just a few months ago, NASA's moon base plans are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to deliver assets to the lunar...

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Science • Jun 30

When mountain lions began appearing more often on trail cameras at a small California nature preserve, coyotes and deer shifted away from nighttime activity, and the woody plants those deer used to eat increased sixty four fold

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, known by its Ohlone name 'Ootchamin 'Ooyakma, sits about 45 miles south of San Francisco in a patch of oak woodland and...

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Science • Jun 30

NASA astronauts repair robotic arm in 7-hour spacewalk

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir undertake a critical spacewalk at the ISS to repair a malfunctioning robotic arm.

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Science • Jun 30

Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission suggest.

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Science • Jun 30

Liquid water may be two different structures constantly swapping back and forth

A Nature Physics study used AI on 74 million simulated molecules to find evidence liquid water is a shifting mix of two structures.

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Science • Jun 30

Nearby 'Super Earth' may be a better candidate for life than previously thought

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and discovered it may be more...

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Science • Jun 30

The largest digital camera ever built begins decade-long survey of the universe

The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail. The Vera C.

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Science • Jun 30

Therapeutic inhibition of telomeric DNA damage response rescues hematopoietic dysfunction driven by telomere shortening and aging

Telomeres progressively shorten and accumulate damage with aging, and this contributes to cellular senescence and hematopoietic dysfunction.

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Science • Jun 30

Spacewalkers Continuing Canadarm2 Robotic Arm Repairs

Spacewalkers Chris Williams and Jessica Meir successfully removed the wrist joint that malfunctioned on May 27 during Canadarm2 robotic arm operations.

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Science • Jun 30

Scientists expected Pluto to be a frozen, ancient world scarred by billions of years of impacts. But when New Horizons finally arrived in 2015, it found something stranger: smooth young plains with almost no craters, signs of flowing nitrogen ice, possible ice vol

The spacecraft's flyby on July 14, 2015, made that picture look too simple. New Horizons did find craters, mountains and ancient terrain.

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Science • Jun 30

NASA’s New Horizons Reveals a Hidden Interstellar Slowdown at the Solar System’s Edge

Studying the heliosphere is like solving a cosmic puzzle.”

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Science • Jun 30

66 billion trees have been planted in China's Great Green Wall — and they appear to be growing faster than natural forests

Trees in China that were planted as part of huge reforestation projects appear to grow faster than those in natural forests, a new study finds.

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Science • Jun 30

NASA aims to save a sinking space telescope with a rendezvous in orbit

The agency's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is at risk of falling into the atmosphere. A spacecraft set to launch Wednesday is tasked with pushing the...

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Science • Jun 30

Physicists demonstrate Hong–Ou–Mandel interference with more than 10 atoms

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated the Hong–Ou–Mandel (HOM) effect with up to 12 indistinguishable neutral atoms—an...

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Science • Jun 30

Rubin Observatory begins filming the 'greatest cosmic movie ever' beginning a new era of astronomy

Today marks the day that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins it's 10-year mission to shoot the greatest cosmic move ever created.

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Science • Jun 30

The largest digital camera ever built begins decade-long survey of the universe

The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has...

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Science • Jun 30

A 400-Year-Old Painting Caught Bats Eating Birds Before Science Did

For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific secret about bats and their...

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Science • Jun 30

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Its Long-Awaited All-Sky Survey

One year ago, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first photos — tiny windows into millions of galaxies and thousands of asteroids captured with only...

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Science • Jun 30

Rubin's Ocean of Stars

Explore the Ocean of Stars image from Rubin Observatory.

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