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Science • Jul 23

See it: NASA astronaut grows otherworldly crystals aboard International Space Station

Being in space means cool science experiments, and one such experiment conducted by a NASA astronaut while he was aboard the International Space Station...

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Science • Jul 23

Researchers tag 42 sleeping giants in Arctic Circle – and make breathtaking discovery

In a new study, scientists wanted to find out why sperm whales sometimes release bubbles while they snooze – this is what they found.

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Science • Jul 23

Chocolate syrup-like fluid stores multiple interacting memories

Animals and electronic devices aren't the only things with memory. Materials can retain memories of past deformations in their microscopic structure.

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Science • Jul 23

Report: Gen3 Starlink satellites – a Starship-level upgrade?

SpaceX last month wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeking to secure permission to orbit 100,000 new third-generation (Gen3) Starlink...

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Science • Jul 23

Engineers observe quantum heat waves at room temperature

Efficient heat management in solids is key to advancing the next generation of electronics. However, wave-like heat movement—known as phonon focusing—had...

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Science • Jul 23

Vulcan Centaur swapped out again: NASA goes with SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch of space weather mission

NASA's SunRISE mission has been assigned a new launch vehicle: It will now be delivered to orbit by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket rather than a United Launch...

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Science • Jul 23

Machine learning narrows search for additional particles in the Higgs boson family

What if the Higgs boson found in 2012 is not alone but is the only sibling we have encountered so far? Scientists at CERN discovered the particle that year,...

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Science • Jul 23

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the p

The solar system's most violent world was hiding in plain sight, its apocalyptic surface mistaken for instrument failure until scientists realized they were...

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Science • Jul 23

NASA's new space telescope will tackle some of the universe's biggest mysteries

NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope...

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Science • Jul 23

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the sun's missing silver

Newly published research suggests that the sun's missing silver may have been hiding in plain sight all along.

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Science • Jul 23

Scientists tied plastic bottles to fishing nets – and couldn't believe what happened next…

Hundreds of dolphins die in fishing nets every year. How adding this one thing to nets s could help save them.

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Science • Jul 23

To make a single pound of honey, the bees in a hive may visit around two million flowers and can fly more than 50,000 miles between them — equivalent to more than twice around the planet

Let's start with the flowers. To produce a pound of honey, a colony's worker bees have to visit around two million blossoms. The figure is repeated widely...

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Science • Jul 23

First-known freshwater contagious cancer spreading among catfish in Vermont lake

The first-ever transmissible cancer to spread among fish in a freshwater setting has been discovered among brown bullhead catfish in Lake Memphremagog.

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Science • Jul 23

Skylab cost roughly $2.2 billion, hosted nine astronauts across three missions and remained in orbit for just over six years — before breaking apart over Western Australia, where its remains became museum exhibits, Lucite-encased souvenirs and, according t

America's first space station spent six years in orbit before its dramatic demise scattered wreckage across Western Australia—where pieces became museum...

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Science • Jul 23

Astronomers fix a key error in measuring the Sun's silver

A new study reveals the Sun contains 55% more silver than expected, bringing its composition into close agreement with meteorites.

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Science • Jul 23

Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn's moon Titan - the only world besides Earth with rivers, lakes and rain, though there the rain is liquid methane

Picture a car-sized machine sitting on an orange, frozen plain. It powers up eight rotors, rises into a hazy sky and flies to a place no spacecraft has ever...

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Science • Jul 23

Newly discovered object is so strange that we don’t know what to call it, astronomers say

Object might be the first moon ever spotted outside of our solar system.

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Science • Jul 23

The computers guiding Voyager 1 through interstellar space process roughly 8,000 instructions per second; a modern smartphone processes more than 14 billion — yet that 1970s machine has operated for nearly half a century, farther from Earth than any spa

Voyager 1 is controlled by computers whose performance belongs to another technological era. A frequently repeated comparison puts their speed at about...

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Science • Jul 23

Northern Lights Alert: 20 States May See Aurora On Thursday Night

NOAA forecasts G1 geomagnetic storms on Thursday, July 23 and Friday, July 24, with aurora most likely on the northern horizon in U.S. states close to the...

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Science • Jul 23

Selling light after dark: Satellite designed to reflect sunlight to Earth approved by FCC

The Earendil-1 satellite, created by startup Reflect Orbital, contains a thin-film reflector that can direct “abundant sunlight” to specific locations at...

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