Manipulating coulombic forces could offer an alternative way to steer selectivity in electrocatalytic reactions. Instead of trying to accelerate the desired reaction, the approach – named electrostatic decatalysis – works by suppressing…
Category: 7. Science
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Meet the Platypi: NASA’s Newest Astronaut Candidate Class
Ten explorers are currently training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to become flight-eligible astronauts.
Selected in 2025, the astronaut candidates are building the technical and operational skills needed for future missions to…
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New Evidence Shows Neanderthals Exploited This Versatile Natural Material for Multiple Functions
An international research team led by scientists from the University of Cologne, Germany, and the University of Oxford, U.K., has found compelling evidence that now-extinct Neanderthals living in the Levant extracted…
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Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese ‘Strix’ satellite to orbit today
Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective today (March 19), and you can watch it live.
An Electron rocket topped with one of Synspective’s Strix satellites is scheduled to lift off from Rocket…
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What a flex: Swimming robot propelled by lab-grown muscle hits record speed
NUS scientists have developed a self-training method that strengthens lab-grown muscle tissues around the clock, and used them to power a living-muscle robot that swims faster than any of its predecessors
SINGAPORE, March 19, 2026…
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How “Fire Fungi” Help Put Burnt Landscapes Back Together
Ecologists have long studied how life returns after a devastating wildfire. In British Columbia forests, for instance, wildflowers, such as fireweed, and grasses are often the first plants to poke through the charred soil. Shrubs come next,…
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Lucy’s Peril: Extinct Giant Crocodile That Lived With Hominins Identified in Ethiopia
Africa was the cradle of humanity, the continent where We came into being and lo, we were not alone. Multiple branches on the hominin tree coexisted cheek by jowl, and they were not alone either. They lived amid giant animals, some of which…
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Watch NASA roll out Artemis 2 moon rocket on March 19 ahead of April 1 launch
NASA’s Artemis II Live Views from Kennedy Space Center – YouTube
Watch OnNASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad tonight (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftoff, and you can watch the action live.
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New molten planet may change how we classify worlds
A nearby planet is forcing scientists to rethink what small worlds can be. What looked like a familiar type of exoplanet now appears to be something entirely different – a molten world with a deep magma ocean that traps enormous amounts of…
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The Sky Today on Thursday, March 19: Mercury stands still
The solar system’s smallest planet reaches its stationary point in Aquarius, visible briefly in the morning sky before sunrise.
Mercury glows…
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