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Science • Aug 08

Strange phenomenon of shadow bands captivates scientists as a total solar eclipse nears

Solar eclipse viewers often witness a phenomenon known as shadow bands just before and after totality. An upcoming eclipse offers a new chance to study this...

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Science • Aug 08

Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: "It is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows"

The confidence that you understand something is often the very thing that prevents you from actually learning it.

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Science • Aug 08

Avocados Switch Sex on a Daily Basis, And Researchers Finally Know How

At some point in evolutionary history, possibly around 400 million years ago, things started having sex. This adaptational (and sensual) advance introduced...

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Science • Aug 08

Astronomers Observe Binary Star Orbiting Stellar Giant Betelgeuse

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Betelgeuse is a superstar among the stars — one of the brightest in the night sky, a massive red supergiant in the constellation...

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Science • Aug 08

More than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica, not because more fall there, but because flowing ice carries dark rocks into blue-ice stranding zones while the wind strips away snow, concentrating pieces of the Moon, Mars and asteroids on o

Antarctica does not sit beneath a special rain of space rocks. Meteorites fall across the planet, and most vanish into oceans, vegetation,...

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Science • Aug 08

NASA admin: fission is the fuel to get us to Mars

NASA, INL and the private industry are partnering to develop fission-powered spacecraft for Mars by 2028 and a nuclear reactor for the moon by 2030.

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Science • Aug 08

Scientists have found a cell that fights infection by detonating. It bursts, kills everything within reach, and five minutes later there is nothing left to show it was ever there

The immune system's most abundant warrior fights infection with a suicide bomb strategy, vanishing without a trace.

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Science • Aug 08

UPDATE: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Saturday Morning

SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning carry 24 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

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Science • Aug 08

In the driest desert on Earth lies a landscape so hostile it resembles Mars — ancient salt flats, near-lifeless soils, towering volcanoes, and some of the clearest skies on the planet, where scientists search for clues about life beyond Earth.

Where Earth's most hostile terrain becomes a window into the search for life on other worlds.

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Science • Aug 07

One million years without sex fails to erase stick insects' unused biological system

Scientists have made a surprising finding about how an asexually reproducing stick insect has evolved. Research led by Dr. Darren Parker, lecturer in...

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Science • Aug 07

Texas stargazers, get ready: The Perseids meteor shower is about to peak

Lone Star State stargazers are in for a cosmic treat next week when the Perseids meteor shower — one of the most spectacular celestial displays of the year...

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Science • Aug 07

Europe’s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.

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Science • Aug 07

The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, crossed into interstellar space in 2012 — but it will still take many thousands of years to exit the Oort Cloud, meaning it has technically left the solar system and is nowhere near leaving the solar system at the same time

Voyager 1 crossed the Sun's plasma boundary in 2012, yet it remains thousands of years from the gravitational edge of the solar system.

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Science • Aug 07

New Troodontid Dinosaur Genus Identified from Fossil Bone Found Decades Ago in New Mexico

Paleontologists have described a new genus of small, bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico approximately 73 million years ago.

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Science • Aug 07

New 'shape-shifting' architecture brings versatility to photonic quantum computing

Using light to process quantum information is one of the most promising approaches to building future quantum computers. Light particles, known as photons,...

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Science • Aug 07

Perseid meteor shower and partial solar eclipse to light up skies next week

Cited by the Canadian Space Agency as 'the best meteor shower of the year,' the peak viewing night is set to be Aug. 12-13.

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Science • Aug 07

Boron layers could set a superconductivity record, theoretical study predicts

Scientists in China predict that stacking two microscopic layers of boron could set a new record for superconductivity. Superconductors are materials that...

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Science • Aug 07

Risky mission to save NASA’s falling observatory faces issues of its own

A satellite spun out of control ahead of its rescue mission to boost a falling NASA observatory. But the team isn't giving up yet.

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Science • Aug 07

The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon’s shadow

A walk down the tarmac at the National Air and Space Museum of France is guaranteed to thrill aviation enthusiasts. Several civilian and military aircraft...

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Science • Aug 07

NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

Voyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instruments later this year, until NASA made some power changes.

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