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  • SpaceX fires up next-gen ‘V3’ Starship for 1st time ahead of April launch (photos)

    SpaceX fires up next-gen ‘V3’ Starship for 1st time ahead of April launch (photos)

    SpaceX’s biggest, most powerful Starship to date just breathed fire for the first time.

    On Monday (March 16), the company conducted a static fire test with Starship‘s “Super Heavy” first stage, briefly igniting the booster’s engines while the…

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  • NASA Exoplanet-Hunting CubeSat Delivers “First Light” Images

    NASA Exoplanet-Hunting CubeSat Delivers “First Light” Images

    NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a small space telescope that launched to space on January 11th, 2026. Created by NASA and researchers from the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at the University of…

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  • Neanderthals Used Birch Tar for Antibacterial Benefits

    Neanderthals Used Birch Tar for Antibacterial Benefits

    Neanderthals probably used birch tar for multiple functions, including treating their wounds, according to a study published March 18, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS One by a team of researchers led by Tjaark Siemssen of the…

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  • ‘Leaky’ brain barrier a key link between head trauma and brain disease, study finds – The Irish Times

    ‘Leaky’ brain barrier a key link between head trauma and brain disease, study finds – The Irish Times

    A “leaky” blood-brain barrier is the “key link” between repetitive head injuries and poor long-term brain health in retired athletes, new research from Trinity College Dublin has found.

    Sport-related concussion and subconcussive injuries…

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  • Hidden Ancient River System Found Deep Under The Surface of Mars : ScienceAlert

    Hidden Ancient River System Found Deep Under The Surface of Mars : ScienceAlert

    Far away, alone in a crater on a planet inhabited only by robots, NASA’s Perseverance rover explores a dry landscape that was once a river system billions of years ago.

    According to a new discovery, however, the Jezero Delta on Mars is not…

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  • Germany’s Laacher See volcano is sending new signals from within

    Germany’s Laacher See volcano is sending new signals from within

    Researchers have revealed that the magma reservoir beneath Germany’s Laacher See volcano lies deeper and tilts southeast instead of extending vertically as long assumed.

    The finding connects the volcano’s ancient eruption system with modern…

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  • A Tiny Camera In a Cereal Box-Sized Space Telescope Is Searching for Habitable Planets

    A Tiny Camera In a Cereal Box-Sized Space Telescope Is Searching for Habitable Planets

    NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) built an ultraviolet camera for NASA’s teeny-tiny SPARCS space telescope, which is about the size of a cereal box. The camera is searching the Milky Way Galaxy for habitable planets.

    SPARCS,…

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  • Drought paradox study reveals plants around Colorado River turn to groundwater when it gets too hot and dry, reducing flow into the already strained basin

    Drought paradox study reveals plants around Colorado River turn to groundwater when it gets too hot and dry, reducing flow into the already strained basin

    Thirsty plants are sucking up water that would otherwise end up in the Colorado River, according to a new study. The findings could have important implications for water management in regions that rely heavily on snowmelt for their water,…

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  • First world map shows impact of the tidal pulse in coastal rivers

    First world map shows impact of the tidal pulse in coastal rivers

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