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SpaceX Catches Starship Rocket Booster for the First Time Ever as it Returns to Earth After Launch

11 November 2024

Environmental solutions from the amazing world of fantastic fungi

12 August 2022

Butterflies just love ants ---.

12 September 2018

First known manta ray nursery in Florida and new species news!

20 June 2018

Models and mimics are marvels in SE Asia

02 May 2018

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ALMA takes front row seat as galaxies collide

ALMA takes front row seat as galaxies collide

View from the center of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array at an elevation of 16,500 feet on the Chajnantor Plain in northern Chile. Each of these radio telescopes has a...

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Mercury's secrets revealed by the MESSENGER

Mercury's secrets revealed by the MESSENGER

Image Credit: © Science/AAAS; Mercury's planetary magnetic field largely shields the surface from the supersonic solar wind emanating continuously from the Sun. MESSENGER has been in a near-polar, highly eccentric...

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Purdue energy pioneer to receive medal from President Obama

Purdue energy pioneer to receive medal from President Obama

Dr. Rakesh Agrawal, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, has been chosen to receive the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President...

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Nanotubes and the dawn of the flexible solar cell

Nanotubes and the dawn of the flexible solar cell

An exciting new development in material science could revolutionise solar cell design. Since its inception in the 1880s, the technology behind the photovoltaic (PV) cell has evolved slowly. By the...

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Breaking the Cosmic Speed Limit

Breaking the Cosmic Speed Limit

CERN and the LNGS laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy, has announced news of Einsteinian importance. The old man's well-loved theory has been between a rock and a hard place recently...

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NASA Aquarius satellite maps ocean salinity

NASA Aquarius satellite maps ocean salinity

You might have it poured on your meal, it could be concentrated in your bloodstream. But your salt IQ. can now be calculated on the Aquarius website. Aquarius is the...

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Look out below: Satellite coming back to Earth

Look out below: Satellite coming back to Earth

Be on the lookout for falling satellite debris over the next few days. According to NASA, its Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere on about...

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NASA tests sunshield for Webb telescope

NASA tests sunshield for Webb telescope

etadshow468 --> NASA is conducting tests on the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield, which will protect its mirrors and instruments whilst on its mission to observe remote objects in the...

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