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Science • Mar 29

How graphene oxide kills bacteria while sparing human cells

Hygiene in everyday items that touch the body—such as clothing, masks, and toothbrushes—is critically important. The underlying principle of how graphene...

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Science • Mar 29

How and when to see April's full Pink Moon

April's full Pink Moon will reach its peak in the UK at 03:12 BST on Thursday 2 April. Whilst a beautiful night sky event, in truth it is not likely to be...

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Science • Mar 29

Revolutionary Theory Transforms Quantum Perspective on the Big Bang

In an extraordinary leap toward demystifying the origins of our cosmos, researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute for...

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Science • Mar 29

Watch SpaceX launch 119 payloads to orbit from California early on March 30

SpaceX will launch more than 100 satellites to orbit from California early Monday morning (March 30), and you can watch the action live.

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Science • Mar 29

America’s Rocket Factory comes Full Circle with Artemis

As NASA prepares for its long-awaited return of crewed launches beyond low Earth orbit with Artemis II, the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans...

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Science • Mar 29

Success Stories: Alerts from the Night Sky

Alerts and realtime data from the night sky can tell us stories about what is happening in the universe.

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Science • Mar 29

Binding to RNA is not enough—changing its shape is what makes a drug work, study reveals

Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) serve as messengers between DNA and protein production, and perform a wide variety of regulatory functions across different...

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Science • Mar 29

UPDATE: SpaceX makes early morning rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base

SpaceX plans to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base early Monday morning, March 30.

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Science • Mar 29

TESS discovers an Earth-sized planet orbiting nearby M-dwarf star

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting TOI-4616—a...

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Science • Mar 29

Novel protocol reconstructs quantum states in large-scale experiments up to 96 qubits

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some computationally...

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Science • Mar 29

Embryo-like fossils from Southern China offer new clues about ancient life

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541...

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Science • Mar 29

The moon that tipped a planet

Neptune is the solar system's most distant planet, a cold, blue ice giant sitting nearly 30 times further from the sun than Earth. At that remote distance,...

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Science • Mar 29

Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain

A cryogenics researcher was surprised to find chunks of his buddy's brain had survived a decade-long deep freeze.

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Science • Mar 29

Extraordinary Fossil Reveals Fatal Duel Between Ocean Titans 80 Million Years Ago

A fossil discovery from Alabama reveals a rare and dramatic glimpse into the dangers of Cretaceous oceans, where even top predators were vulnerable.

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Science • Mar 29

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky—for everyone on Earth

More than 10000 Starlink satellites currently orbit Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through...

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Science • Mar 29

Early Miocene Fossil Fills Gap in Ape Family Tree

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of fossil ape that lived about 17-18 million years ago in northern Egypt.

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Science • Mar 29

America's nuclear spacecraft is heading to Mars, and it's bringing helicopters

For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the...

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Science • Mar 29

When did plate tectonics begin? Scientists find new clues

The puzzle pieces of Earth's rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving \u2014 a process known as plate tectonics.

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Science • Mar 29

The JWST finds more overmassive black holes. This time in dwarf galaxies

One of the things astronomers find when they look around at galaxies is a correlation between a galaxy's mass and the mass of its supermassive black hole.

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Science • Mar 29

Seals use whisker movement to follow underwater trails—an approach that could improve robotic sensing

Seals are carnivorous marine mammals that are well adapted to hunting for fish underwater, where visibility is poor. In such conditions, seals rely on their...

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