- Astronaut’s ‘serious medical condition’ forces Nasa to end space station mission early Dawn
- Astronaut’s ‘serious medical condition’ forces Nasa to end space station mission early BBC
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Category: 7. Science
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Astronaut’s ‘serious medical condition’ forces Nasa to end space station mission early – Dawn
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Long odds — finding life elsewhere in the universe
While I greatly admire physicists producing more and more detailed information about the universe (“‘We’re on the cusp of something really exciting’”, Lunch with the FT, Life & Arts, December 20), unlike your interviewee, space…
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In TDP-43 Proteinopathy, Misplaced PolyA Tails Mean Crippled Retromers
When TDP-43 escapes from the nucleus, cells bungle mRNA processing, chopping up and splicing transcripts in the wrong places. Most studies have focused on retention of “cryptic” exons, but recent work has…
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What killed the world’s giant species?
Dan Mann, right, ponders a bone of a marine mammal handed to him by his friend Lewis Sharman on the Southeast Alaska coast. (Photo by Ned Rozell) Most of the large animals that have walked the surface of Earth are no longer here. Why?
Dan Mann…
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People inhale very high levels of microplastics by breathing city air
Researchers in Xi’an, China found that levels of microplastics in the city’s air tripled over the course of their study.
They measured these particles within PM2.5, the fine pollution that can penetrate deep into the lungs, comparing samples…
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elephant trunks, butterfly migration and a hot galaxy cluster : NPR
NPR’s Short Wave talks about elephants’ sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a surprising discovery about the early universe.
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
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Pedestrian injured after being struck by truck at Brevard crosswalk: police
BREVARD, N.C. (WLOS) — A man was injured after he was struck by a truck while crossing North Broad Street in Brevard on Friday morning.
According to Brevard police, a vehicle had slowed to allow the man to cross when a Toyota Tacoma bypassed it,…
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Jupiter to outshine stars this weekend, but clouds may block view in eastern U.S.
(WLOS) — This weekend, Jupiter becomes its biggest, brightest, and closest of the year, outshining every star in the sky.
Jupiter will be at opposition. Earth will be directly between the giant planet and the Sun.
In opposition, Jupiter rises at…
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this is the science that will be lost
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover poses for a selfie after drilling a sample from Cheyava Falls, the arrowhead-shaped rock in the centre of this picture. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Far away on desolate Mars, a set of dust and rock samples…
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Record-Breaking Asteroid Spins So Fast It Should Tear Itself Apart : ScienceAlert
With data collected months before its main survey is due to begin, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is already upending what we thought we knew about asteroids.
In the Main Belt of asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the telescope…
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