Category: 7. Science

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  • Astronomers keep finding new moons of Jupiter and Saturn

    Astronomers keep finding new moons of Jupiter and Saturn

    A multitude of new moons have made their presence known around Jupiter and Saturn, bringing their population of moons to 101 and 285, respectively.

    The new discoveries also bring the total number of known moons orbiting planets and dwarf planets…

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  • Solar-Eclipsing Probe Back From the Dead After a Month of Silence

    Solar-Eclipsing Probe Back From the Dead After a Month of Silence

    A pair of spacecraft has been flying in formation, creating an artificial solar eclipse to help scientists probe the elusive outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere. For the past month, however, one of the spacecraft has been…

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  • US Space Force moves GPS launch to SpaceX Falcon 9 due to Vulcan rocket glitch

    US Space Force moves GPS launch to SpaceX Falcon 9 due to Vulcan rocket glitch

    The U.S. Space Force has swapped rockets for an upcoming GPS satellite launch.

    Next month’s GPS III-8 mission had been slated to fly atop United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket. But Vulcan has experienced issues with its solid…

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  • CERN’s ALICE Collaboration Finds Evidence Of Quark-Gluon Plasma In Proton Collisions

    CERN’s ALICE Collaboration Finds Evidence Of Quark-Gluon Plasma In Proton Collisions

    Researchers with the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider have found evidence that a state of matter resembling the earliest moments of the universe, quark-gluon plasma, can arise even in collisions of comparatively small particles…

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  • Scientists Finally Solved a Massive Mystery About Static Electricity Using Acoustic Levitation

    Scientists Finally Solved a Massive Mystery About Static Electricity Using Acoustic Levitation

    Levitating matter with sound. Experimental setup with an acoustically levitated particle of silica. Credit: Thomas Zauner/ISTA

    When microscopic particles of sand, ash, or dust collide in the air, they often exchange a tiny electrical…

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