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Science • Aug 08

There’s a solar eclipse coming next week… But most of the U.S. won’t be able to see it

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (WHTM) — The last total solar eclipse visible from the United States was back in April 2024, and with another eclipse set to occur next...

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Science • Aug 08

540-million-year-old poop ‘revolution’ may be the source of life as we know it: ‘Often overlooked’

Poop could be responsible for the rapid diversification of life during the Cambrian Explosion 540 million years ago, per a new study.

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Science • Aug 08

You have spent your entire life staring at a reversed copy of your own face, brushing your teeth in front of it, checking it before you leave the house, and the real one, the face the whole world has memorised, can feel like a stranger the first time you truly meet it

The person you've studied in mirrors your entire life is not the person everyone else knows.

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Science • Aug 08

NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst

Voyager 2's four-planet route depended on a rare chain of planetary encounters, successive transfers of orbital momentum and a launch window that will not...

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Science • Aug 08

Reduced gravity pushes people toward simpler movement patterns, experiments suggest

From reaching for a cup of coffee to tying your shoelaces, gravity shapes nearly all human movement. So how do our bodies react when that familiar force...

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Science • Aug 08

The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon

The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a...

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Science • Aug 08

Swarms of tiny robots remove microplastics from soil and water

Microplastics, which are plastic particles under 5 millimeters, are a major and growing threat in both soil and water. They damage soil fertility,...

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Science • Aug 08

One night in 1986, a peaceful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon dioxide that swept through nearby villages — killing people and animals in their sleep and revealing one of the rarest natural disasters on Earth.

Imagine going to sleep in a quiet farming village, windows open to a warm August night, a lake sitting still in the valley below the way it had for as long...

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Science • Aug 08

China’s lunar research station could be guarded by robot watchdogs: scientists

Custom-designed machines could identify hazards on the moon and help astronauts collect rock samples, source water ice, researchers say.

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Science • Aug 08

Yes, North America gets a solar eclipse on Aug. 12. Here's where and when to see it

Find out when and where to see the Aug. 12 partial solar eclipse across the U.S. and Canada, including eclipse times and the best viewing locations.

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Science • Aug 08

Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket

The first images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage impact on the moon's surface have emerged. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared the first...

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Science • Aug 08

Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird

Dodo birds got a bad rap from the very start. When European sailors landed on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, they thought it looked foolish waddling...

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Science • Aug 08

The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

Sometime next week, NASA's newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world.

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Science • Aug 08

A six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar space on Voyager's Golden Record, and he was not chosen at random — Carl Sagan's son Nick said: "Hello from the children of planet Earth."

In 1977, NASA attached a gold-plated copper record to each of the two Voyager spacecraft before they left Earth. A message in a bottle thrown into the dark,...

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Science • Aug 08

Scientists Watched Carbon Dioxide Being Pulled Out of The Air to Form Graphite

Wouldn't it be great if we could make a material we need for batteries by pulling carbon dioxide right out of the air? It almost sounds too good to be true,...

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Science • Aug 08

A robotic rover sitting on the surface of Mars photographed real clouds glowing red, green and blue, made of frozen carbon dioxide catching sunlight long after the ground beneath them had gone dark

Every cloud anyone has ever watched from the ground on Earth is made of water. That fact is so basic it barely registers as a fact at all, the way gravity...

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Science • Aug 08

Every turn of Curiosity’s six aluminium wheels stamps the letters JPL into Mars in Morse code — a signature hidden in dots and dashes that is not merely decorative, because the rover photographs those tracks to measure how far its wheels slipped on sand an

Curiosity has been pressing the same short message into Mars since its first test drive in August 2012. Each of the rover's six aluminium wheels carries...

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Science • Aug 08

Oklahoma rescue takes in 6 horses agents say were used to disguise 353 pounds of cocaine

"We believe the horses were pretty much nothing more than props."

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Science • Aug 08

Spanish mountain village braces for astrotourists lured by total solar eclipse

Somosierra will be prime spot to view celestial alignment on 12 August, an event that poses logistical challenges.

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Science • Aug 08

Inside the US town where cell phones barely work because scientists are listening to the universe

US News: In the mountains of eastern West Virginia sits Green Bank, a town of roughly 150 people where using a cell phone, running a Wi-Fi router,...

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