Early on the morning of 11 February, the waning moon passes close to Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.
Antares is a red supergiant star about 550 light years away. From the UK, it never climbs far above the horizon, so it…
Category: 7. Science
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A legendary golden fabric lost for 2,000 years has been brought back
A rare luxury material once worn only by emperors in ancient times has been successfully recreated by scientists in South Korea. Researchers led by Professor Dong Soo Hwang (Division of Environmental Science and Engineering / Division of…
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From genes to dynamics: Examining brain cell types in action may reveal the logic of brain function
In the past 10 years, neuroscientists’ capacity for characterizing cells has expanded dramatically; omics tools have enabled researchers to create entire cell atlases based on their transcriptomes, and high-volume recording tools…
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Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Ground
by Amcen West
New York NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2026
When Artemis II finally lights its engines and arcs away from Cape Canaveral, it will do more than send four astronauts on a ten-day loop around the Moon. It will fire the starting gun on…Continue Reading
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This Student Made Cosmic Dust In Her Lab: What She Found Could Help Us Understand How Life Started On Earth – Eurasia Review
- This Student Made Cosmic Dust In Her Lab: What She Found Could Help Us Understand How Life Started On Earth Eurasia Review
- Student makes cosmic dust in a lab, shining a light on the origin of life cnn.com
- Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may…
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The Artemis missions sees a new class of astronauts venture to the moon
Now more than 53 years since humans last went to the moon, NASA will be going back with the Artemis missions.
Spending more than nine years in development and facing countless setbacks, the crew of Artemis II could return to the moon…
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Chang’e 6 samples contest moon theories
Yue Zongyu (third from right) exchanges ideas with other researchers on the significance of Chang”e 6 samples for the new lunar crater chronology model. Ren Hui/For China Daily
A common belief holds that…
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Hackaday Links: February 8, 2026
We start this week with a bit of a good news/bad news situation. On February 6th, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was shut down after 25 years of operation. Located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, the…
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Scientists Use Lunar Observations To Study Earth’s Radiation Patterns
In order to better study Earth’s radiation patterns, some scientists are now suggesting a turn to lunar observations. Scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently conducted a study…
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Predominantly positive XCO2 anomalies in the Caatinga biome highlight carbon vulnerability
Thomas, C. D. et al. Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427, 145–148. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02121 (2004).
Tam et al. Research on climate change in social psychology…
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