An ambitious plan to build ‘lunar glass’ domes on the surface of the Moon has received backing from NASA.
Cast your mind back to being a child and think about how you imagined futuristic space travel. Chances are, it is likely that lunar colonies…
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Wildflowers turn solar farms into havens for bumblebees
Across the British countryside, sunlight now feeds two kinds of life. Solar panels feed homes with power. Wildflowers beneath them feed bees. The hum of insects mixes with the quiet hum of electricity.
This blend of technology and nature has been…
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Mars images uncover a world of dust devils and wild winds
Scientists have tracked 1,039 dust devils – tornado-like whirlwinds that skitter across the Red Planet. To do this, the team stitched together two decades of images from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas…
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New SDR-Seq Tool Links DNA Variants to Disease
Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain diseases ‘ran in families’. However, through the years, scientists have kept getting better at finding ways to also…
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World’s most powerful X-ray laser spots warm ice under pressure
International researchers have just discovered a new ice form called ice XXI, which compresses water to extreme pressures while keeping it at room temperature.
The achievement was accomplished at the European XFEL, a research facility that…
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NASA Lets YouTuber Steve Mould Test His “Weird Chain Theory” In Space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has helped YouTuber Steve Mould with the final step in his “weird chain theory”: testing the idea in space.
In 2013, YouTuber and science communicator Steve Mould brought the “chain fountain”, an unsolved problem in…
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New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells
University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development – including the production of blood stem cells.
Human blood stem…
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Space Stocks Are Soaring Ahead of SpaceX’s 11th Test of Starship. – Barron's
- Space Stocks Are Soaring Ahead of SpaceX’s 11th Test of Starship. Barron’s
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