The Jovian system has four large moons, including the largest moon in the Solar System, Ganymede, whereas the Saturnian system is dominated by one giant moon. New simulations suggest Jupiter’s powerful magnetism carved a gap in its early…
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NMSU Astronomy Student’s Research on Coronal Holes Improves Space Weather Forecasting
Newswise — Fast solar winds originating from the sun can have direct impacts on Earth – disrupting systems like GPS, aviation, electrical grids and satellite and radio communications. A new paper by New Mexico State…
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‘Screams of delight’: Artemis crew flying home to thrilled NASA scientists
Houston, Texas –The Artemis II astronauts were jetting towards Earth and sharing their lunar flyby souvenirs Tuesday, delighting colleagues both at…
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So long, sucker: world’s ‘oldest octopus’ is stripped of its title – The Times
- So long, sucker: world’s ‘oldest octopus’ is stripped of its title The Times
- ‘Oldest octopus’ fossil is no octopus at all, scans reveal EurekAlert!
- World’s Oldest Octopus Fossil From Guinness World Records Was Misidentified — Here’s…
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Scientists rethink DNA after discovering it can be built from scratch
Scientists have found that DNA polymerases can write long, structured stretches of new genetic material without any template to copy.
That finding reframes a long-known but overlooked behavior as a potential way to build DNA at lengths that…
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The Artemis 2 space toilet is actually working fine. But there is another problem
Sorry, but we need to talk about Artemis 2’s space toilet again.
The loo on Artemis 2‘s Orion capsule has gotten a lot of attention since the moon mission launched on April 1, and not just because it’s the first privy ever to fly beyond Earth…
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Artemis II Astronauts Name Moon Crater After Commander Reid Wiseman’s Late Wife
On Monday, after the crew aboard Artemis II made a historic feat by breaking Apollo 13’s distance record, they made the moment even more special by proposing to name one of the craters on the moon “Carroll” in memory of Commander Reid Wiseman’s…
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SuperCDM Experiment Reaches Critical Temperature, Bringing it One Step Closer to Detecting Dark Matter
Scientists at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have reached a milestone with the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment. Located deep underground at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory…
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NASA sets for CRS-24 space station resupply launch
NASA has scheduled Northrop Grumman’s next Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch targeted no earlier than 8:49 a.m. EDT (10:49pm AEST) on Wednesday, April 8.
The mission, known…
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A 500 million year old fossil could change what we understand about spiders – NPR
- A 500 million year old fossil could change what we understand about spiders NPR
- A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates Nature
- Fossil reveals that an early relative of spiders had claws Science News
- A…
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