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Science • Jun 13

Humans will soon be able to spend longer in space

Space stations with artificial gravity that will allow humans to travel deep into the Solar System are on the horizon.

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Science • Jun 13

Buried 2 miles beneath Antarctica's ice, a colossal hidden structure may rewrite its history

Beneath roughly two miles of Antarctic ice, scientists have identified an enormous buried geologic feature that could change how researchers interpret the...

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Science • Jun 13

How Asteroid Sample Return Went From a Long Shot to a Four-Nation Race

In 2010 a wounded Japanese probe limped home with a few specks of asteroid dust. Sixteen years later China's Tianwen-2 is reaching for a chunk of a rock...

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Science • Jun 13

Southern California faults hit a 1,000-year stress peak, scientists say the Big One is overdue

New research suggests the potential for earthquakes is intensifying on Southern California's San Andreas and San Jacinto faults, where tectonic stress has...

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Science • Jun 13

A phage puts a new spin on bacterial flagella

This study reports that phage-mediated flagellin remodelling enhances bacterial motility, mammalian immune evasion and host colonization.

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Science • Jun 13

‘The Weird Unknown’: 79 Creepy, Weird, And Intriguing Facts About The Ocean (New Pics)

Shockingly, the ocean covers the majority of our planet, but the absolute majority of it remains unexplored to this day. The waves hide many mysteries,...

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Science • Jun 13

'Real-life Project Hail Mary': Scientists discover a hidden fungal network beneath Earth stretching 110 q

Beneath forests, grasslands and even the soil in our gardens lies an extraordinary hidden world that most people never see. Scientists have now mapped a...

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Science • Jun 13

A single kilogram of conventionally farmed beef requires approximately 15,400 litres of water to produce, the equivalent of around 100 standard bathtubs, and generates approximately 99 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions, th

The Mekonnen and Hoekstra study analysed water-use data from beef production systems across more than a hundred countries, separating the water footprint...

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Science • Jun 12

NASA Study Challenges Theories on Where the Ingredients for Life Came From

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become...

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Science • Jun 12

Men Can Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age, And We Finally Know The Cost

The human Y chromosome is shrinking. In the next 5 million years or so, some geneticists think the sex-determining chromosome will vanish completely from...

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Science • Jun 12

Earth's largest waterfall is hidden underwater in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, where dense cold water plunges about 3,500 meters down the seafloor, far exceeding any waterfall on land in drop height and volume

The tallest waterfall on Earth sits unseen on the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland, with no spray and no audible roar, and the water that pours over...

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Science • Jun 12

Rare deep-sea shark discovered alive in the ocean for first time

A deep-sea creepy creature has been spotted alive for the first time in its natural habitat. Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have...

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Science • Jun 12

Ever have a scary HR meeting on your calendar? That's how the Artemis 3 crew found out their assignments

HOUSTON — Ever had a mysterious meeting with management show up on your work calendar? Unannounced and unprompted? With invitees from parts of the company...

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Science • Jun 12

NASA Leader Responds to Criticism Over All-Male Artemis III Crew

When NASA announced the astronauts who would fly on Artemis III, the next mission in its return-to-the-moon efforts, it was striking to many that the crew...

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Science • Jun 12

Rare goblin shark filmed in the wild for the 1st time, study says

Scientists have captured and confirmed footage of the goblin shark, a rare deep-sea shark species, in the wild for the first time, according to a new study.

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Science • Jun 12

Look up: Planetary parade featuring Venus, Jupiter and Mercury set to dazzle the sky tonight

Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will be visible in the night-sky on the evening of June 12. The three planets will align for a celestial show over the Western...

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Science • Jun 12

5 Absurd Space Myths That NASA Helped Debunk

From instantly dying in space to navigating the asteroid belt, science fiction gets a lot wrong. See how NASA has debunked some of the wildest space rumors.

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Science • Jun 12

A single day on Mercury, from one sunrise to the next, lasts 176 Earth days, which is two full Mercury years

A year on Mercury is 88 Earth days. A day, oddly, is longer than that. The reason is a slow spin locked to a fast orbit in a ratio nobody expected.

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Science • Jun 12

Could the secret to black hole formation be locked away in this record-breaking ancient quasar?

A quasar that is the first in the early universe to be found by its flicker, more luminous than 2 trillion suns, could reveal how supermassive black holes...

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Science • Jun 12

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's ‘Spy Mirror’ Could Transform How We Map the Universe

Learn more about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — known as Roman — and the advanced technology that will help give us a better map of the universe.

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