Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient…
Category: 9. Sci-Tech
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Soccer Heading Causes Brain Damage
A brain imaging technique developed by Columbia researchers has identified areas in the brain’s cerebral cortex—just behind the forehead—that are most damaged by the repetitive impacts from heading a soccer ball. Their study also found…
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Nasa plans crewed Moon mission for February
Nasa has said it hopes to send astronauts on a trip around the Moon as soon as February to prepare for landing there as early as 2027.
The US space agency had previously committed to launching no later than the end of April but said it aims to…
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A Simple Test Strip That Reveals the Invisible Nanoplastic Threat
Nanoplastic particles made visible: the newly developed test strip from the University of Stuttgart allows dangerous nanoplastic particles to be detected under a light microscope. Credit: University of Stuttgart / 4th Physics… Continue Reading
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International team publishes framework for study of ‘Earth engineers’
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s S. Kathleen Lyons, is providing a new framework — Earth system engineering — for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered…
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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity captures stunning details of alien rock formations
Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 5, 2025
Curiosity is in the midst of the boxwork campaign, trying to decipher why we see such pronounced ridges and hollows in this area of Mount Sharp. When this terrain was first identified from orbit it was…
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The Universe’s first magnetic fields were shockingly weak, but changed everything
The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of the Universe, may have been billions of times weaker than a small fridge magnet, with strengths comparable to magnetism generated by neurons in the human brain. Yet, despite such…
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First natural evidence of nickel-rich alloys found deep in Earth’s mantle
The chemical mood of Earth’s mantle, its redox state, is shaped by how iron and carbon behave as they gain or lose electrons. This redox balance affects everything, from the formation of minerals to the movement of heat and materials deep…
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