Lauren Edgar has spent nearly two decades at NASA studying the moon and Mars, guiding rover missions and helping design lunar science for the Artemis program. Now, she’s trading her role behind the console for a shot at flying to space…
Category: 9. Sci-Tech
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Largest nova super-remnant ever found, measures 650 light-years across
In a surprising discovery, astronomers have found an enormous, shell-like structure called a nova super-remnant (NSR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy located approximately 160,000 light-years from Earth.
An NSR is simply the…
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Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers
Data centers are responsible for running many of the services that underpin the systems we interact with every day. Transportation, logistics, energy, finance, national security, health systems, and other lifeline services all rely on…
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Happy Astronomy Day 2025: Celebrate by hunting these 6 spectacular night sky targets
Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we’ve picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible in the night sky that will make for a beautiful and rewarding sight, whether you’re observing with the naked eye or a…
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I tried a sound bath to see if it actually made me calmer
I drove up to my first sound bath experience not knowing quite what to expect. The…
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Happy Astronomy Day 2025! Celebrate by hunting these 6 spectacular night sky targets
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Astronomer using telescope to observe the night sky. | Credit: Getty
Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we’ve picked six targets to…
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Neanderthals may have taken planned ‘vacations’ to the beach
The Algarve coast now offers one of the clearest windows into Neanderthal life on the Iberian Peninsula. Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.
Led by Carlos Neto…
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The LA Fires Spewed Out Toxic Nanoparticles. He Made It His Mission to Trace Them
Spada’s is one of the hardest projects to tune the beam for. “The beam is way over-powered to run my samples, at baseline,” Spada said, comparing the amount of power he needs to a couple drops of water, “but the beam, it’s like Niagara…
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Earth’s 6-year day-length oscillation briefly faltered in 2010
Madsen and Holme reanalysed cleaned LOD records from the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) for 1962 to 2025 using cubic B-splines and penalized least-squares splines to recover smooth trends and their time…
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