Category: 7. Science
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After 700,000 years, Iran’s dormant Taftan volcano is starting to rise
For decades, the colossal Taftan volcano of eastern Iran appeared a lifeless piece of history. It towered nearly 13,000 feet above the desert landscape, standing proud and still. But in 2023, something remarkable did happen—its summit started…
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Zinc is a metal essential to life – scientists have discovered a protein that helps keep cells alive when zinc levels are low
All living things, including people, need zinc in their diets. Getting too little of this essential metal can impair growth and cause immune dysfunction, neurological disorders and cancer. Unfortunately, over 17% of the world’s population is at…
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$20 million NASA mission to visit ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision
NASA’s plans to fly a spaceship alongside a potentially hazardous asteroid in 2029 will continue — for the next year, at least.
After threats of mission cancellation, the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft received a last-minute $20 million allocation in…
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Precision, Imprecision, Intellectual Honesty, And Little Green Men – Hackaday
- Precision, Imprecision, Intellectual Honesty, And Little Green Men Hackaday
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS seen in new photos from Mars NBC News
- The stranger that stirred the solar system Pakistan Today
- A Sunward Jet from 3I/ATLAS, Imaged by the…
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 182 — The Dream is Alive
The Dream is Alive – With NASA Astronaut Terry Hart – YouTube
Watch OnOn Episode 182 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Hart to discuss his career from a fighter jet pilot to a NASA astronaut.
If you ever…
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Climate change is making Greenland shrink and drift, says new study
New research from DTU Space shows that Greenland is undergoing a massive shift because of climate change—it’s quite literally accelerating the melting of the Danish territory.
A study recently published by DTU in the Journal of…
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Single Gene Swap Transfers Courtship Behavior Between Two Species For The First Time
Researchers have engineered a courtship ritual from one species of fruit fly into another using genetic modification.
A Japanese research team tweaked a single gene in the fly Drosophila melanogaster, causing it to display a courtship ritual…
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Scientists Discover Rogue Star-Eating Black Hole Far From Home
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that mounted a defense, felt out of place, found new life, and resurrected the gods of yore.
First, a tale of pregnant stinkbugs, parasitic wasps, and fungi weapons that…
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Astronomers capture first image of a star that exploded twice
A star died in a way that astronomers had long suspected but never seen so clearly. Its remains show two separate layers of debris, the calling card of a double explosion.
The object sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy about…
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