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Science • Aug 10

Mars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return is still being redesigned, and NASA's Aeolus partnership shows how much Martian weather we still need to learn

Mars is one of those subjects that can sound simple if you stand far enough away from it. It becomes the red next place, the next human destination,...

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Science • Aug 10

Retrotechtacular: A View Of The Moon From 1964

If you didn't live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by...

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Science • Aug 10

‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data

Two aviators will take off from Iceland to photograph the sun while flying at high altitude along solar eclipse's path.

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Science • Aug 10

Katalyst Space makes progress in restoring control of Swift servicing spacecraft

The company that developed a spacecraft to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory is making progress in recovering from its own spacecraft's problems.

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Science • Aug 10

Hundreds of meteors will soon paint the sky: peak hours & where to watch in Oregon

Perseid Meteor Shower peaks Aug. 12-13 with up to 50-100 meteors per hour, plus bright fireballs. New moon means darker skies. OMSI hosts watch parties at...

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Science • Aug 10

A child who can see 250 stars today may see fewer than 100 from the same place at eighteen: 51,351 naked-eye observations found the night sky brightening far faster than satellites had measured

Artificial light pollution is erasing the stars twice as fast as satellites suggested, threatening to dim humanity's oldest natural wonder within a single...

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Science • Aug 09

How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle

NEW YORK (AP) — The Perseid summer light show is back — and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere.

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Science • Aug 09

Intricate Carvings in Ostrich Eggshells are 60,000 Years Old – and Reveal ‘Remarkable’ Human Thinking

Dating back more than 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa were engraving ostrich eggshells with intricate geometric patterns that—the longer we...

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Science • Aug 09

Sky-gazers can look forward to a double meteor shower peak this week. How and when to see it

Two meteor showers — the Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids — peak this week. A full moon will make viewing a challenge, but here's how to try.

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Science • Aug 09

Scientist uses gene-editing to breed dog that won’t trigger his allergies

A scientist with a dog allergy has bred a puppy that will not make him sneeze, in a breakthrough that could help prospective pet owners.

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Science • Aug 09

Perseid meteor shower set to dazzle northern hemisphere this week

Astronomers say viewing conditions promising for this year's shower, and 50 to 100 meteors an hour may be visible.

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Science • Aug 09

Early snakes explored life underground, on land and at sea

Snakes are highly modified lizards, with more than 4000 living species today. The origin of snakes has long been one of evolutionary biology's most debated...

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Science • Aug 09

Titan is never the same distance from Earth twice: the gap can run from about 1.2 billion kilometres to nearly 1.65 billion depending on where both worlds sit in their orbits, stretching a signal's one-way trip from just over an hour to past ninety minutes

Titan is never quite the same distance away twice. Depending on where Earth and Saturn happen to be in their orbits when you ask, the gap between us and...

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Science • Aug 09

Upcoming Perseid meteor shower will be more visible thanks to a new moon

The Perseids are one of the oldest recorded meteor showers, with observations dating back over 2000 years. It's one of the most active showers of the year,...

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Science • Aug 09

This may be one of the most stunning parts of a total eclipse

Despite advances in science, the corona, or outermost part of the sun's atmosphere, remains mysterious. Wednesday's total solar eclipse provides a chance to...

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Science • Aug 09

Tiny particles defy action-reaction symmetry to stay in motion

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic synthetic particles, many systems in nature and the laboratory consist of individual units or agents...

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Science • Aug 09

MIT study finds hidden language network in the human brain

New MIT research shows language processing involves more brain regions than previously thought, revealing a broader but efficient network.

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Science • Aug 09

We Wouldn’t Be Here Without Poop

Julien Kimmig's career began with a surprising abundance of feces. As a PhD student working at a Cambrian site in northern Canada, Kimmig realized that...

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Science • Aug 09

Cosmic filaments help set first limits on dark matter's decay into gravitons

Composing some 85% of the universe's total mass, dark matter betrays its presence only through gravity, unlike ordinary matter. Yet through new research...

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Science • Aug 09

Mercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin that cooling has crumpled the surface into cliffs hundreds of kilometres long

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, but most of the distance from its centre to its surface passes through metal.

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