Tiny pieces of natural glass found in South Australia carry the signature of an ancient asteroid impact. They are small, tough, and unassuming, yet they point to a violent event that reshaped a patch of Earth about 11 million years…
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To save aging space telescope, NASA taps startup to push it farther into space – Reuters
- To save aging space telescope, NASA taps startup to push it farther into space Reuters
- NASA Awards Company to Attempt Swift Spacecraft Orbit Boost NASA (.gov)
- Katalyst’s Daring Mission: Saving SWIFT from a Fiery End Devdiscourse
- To save aging…
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Scientists Model Electrochemistry to Boost Energy Tech
This image shows a computer simulation of a fluid stream atomizing, or breaking down, into fine droplets. Image courtesy of Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Adarsh Krishnamurthy. Quick look
Iowa State engineers…
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Trio of Space Weather Satellites Take Flight – eos.org
- Trio of Space Weather Satellites Take Flight eos.org
- What is the heliosphere? A new mission could unravel the mysteries of this complex cosmic environment CNN
- New NOAA satellite launches into space to monitor solar storms CBS News
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NASA Lab Builds New Aircraft to Support Complex Flight Research
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research, offering a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to crewed missions.
The aircraft…
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Meet ‘Integrity’: Artemis 2 astronauts name the spacecraft that will fly them around the moon
The spacecraft that will carry astronauts to lunar realms for the first time in more than half a century now has a name.
The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, who could launch on their trip around the moon as early as Feb. 5, announced…
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Correlation between the mutation rates for ampC derepression and species or ampC genotypes in Enterobacter cloacae complex | BMC Microbiology
Over the past decade, ECC has become a widespread group of pathogens capable of causing a range of disorders, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and septicaemia [1, 20]. The strains assessed in this study were…
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Scientists Blast Dinosaur Eggs With Lasers to Check Their Ancient ‘Atomic Clocks’ : ScienceAlert
Researchers in China have opened a new window into the deep past by blasting dinosaur eggs with a laser, dating them directly for the first time.
A micro-laser was used to vaporize small portions of an eggshell, which released a cloud of…
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A “cosmic carpool” is traveling to a distant space weather observation post
The mission is named for George Carruthers, an engineer and solar physicist who developed an ultraviolet camera placed on the Moon by the Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972. This camera captured the first view of the geocorona, a…
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Mars Had Multiple Episodes of Hability, Says New Research
Thanks to missions that have been exploring the Red Planet since the 1970s, it has been established that Mars was once a much different place than what we see there today. Instead of an extremely cold, extremely dry, and irradiated…
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