PHOENIX — As preparations continue for a mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift astrophysics spacecraft, project officials are also pursuing steps to extend the satellite’s operational life in case of delays.
NASA awarded a…
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2023 Ames Earth Science Nuggets
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NASA Armstrong Advances Flight Research and Innovation in 2025
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NASA, Boeing Test How to Improve Performance of Longer, Narrower Aircraft Wings
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Taylor & Francis announces expanded scope for flagship PeerJ journal
Taylor & Francis newsMultidisciplinary open access journal offers new publishing option for researchers in Chemistry, Engineering and Materials…
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SETI watched a pulsar flicker for months and found space keeps shifting
For nearly a year, a research team led by the SETI Institute closely followed the pulsar PSR J0332+5434 (also called B0329+54). Their goal was to understand how the pulsar’s radio signal appears to “twinkle” as it travels through clouds of gas on…
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The invisible energy cost that keeps life from falling apart
Living systems pay energetic costs that traditional mechanical physics does not account for. One clear example is the energy needed to keep certain biochemical processes running, such as those involved in photosynthesis, while actively preventing…
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Hubble Telescope spies ‘wake’ of supergiant Beutelgeuse’s hidden companion star
Astronomers and scientists love Betelgeuse because it shines so brightly. While most stars appear as tiny points of light, Betelgeuse is large enough, and close enough, that we can study it in much greater detail. But this red supergiant star…
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Astronomers Discover a Bright Supernova Using Gravitational Lensing for the First Time
Gravitational Lensing is a vital tool for astronomers to observe objects that are too distant or faint (or both) to be resolved by current instruments. This method leverages a prediction from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity,…
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SpaceX stacks Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship megarocket’s 12th test flight
Just before the holidays, SpaceX took a big step toward the next test flight of its Starship megarocket.
On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), the company posted a photo on X of the shiny Super Heavy booster that will conduct Starship Flight 12 standing…
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NASA Selects Proposals for Habitable Worlds Observatory
NASA has selected industry proposals to develop technologies that will aid in building the Habitable Worlds Observatory, an advanced space telescope designed to search for signs of life on planets similar to Earth.
What Is the Purpose of NASA’s…
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Predicting probiotic success: lessons from Oxalobacter and oxalate metabolism
Fan, Y. & Pedersen, O. Gut microbiota in human metabolic health and disease. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 19, 55–71 (2021).
Okolie, M. C. et al. Gut microbiota and immunity in health and diseases: A…
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