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A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers
Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid in the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test mission in November 2021. NASA/Bill Ingalls This article was originally featured on Undark. On a fall evening...
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The Bird-Flu Host We Should Worry About
Of all the creatures stricken with this new and terrible H5N1 flu— the foxes, the bears, the eagles, ducks, chickens, and many other birds —dairy cattle are some of the most intimate with us. In the United States, more than 9 million milk cows live on farms, where people muck their manure, help...
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NASA, European Space Agency Sign Agreement to Land Europe’s Rover on Mars
Your No. 1 Source for NASA & Space News NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Nicky Fox and ESA’s Director of Human and Robotic Exploration Daniel Neuenschwander sign an agreement on the Rosalind Franklin mission at ESA’s headquarters in Paris, France on May 16, 2024....
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New Milk Protein Gel Stops Mice Getting Too Drunk – Could Humans Be Next?
An oral antidote to acute alcohol intoxication has been developed and tested successfully on mice. The hydrogel is engineered using a milk protein that’s a by-product of cheese manufacturing, and it breaks down alcohol in the body without generating the usual toxic waste products. Advertisement In...
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The divergent psychology of plausible versus implausible conspiracy theories
A recent study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science explores how individuals assess the plausibility of conspiracy theories. The research reveals that a suspicious mindset is strongly linked to perceiving implausible conspiracy theories as plausible, while cognitive...
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Earth-Sized World Found Around Star That Will Live 100 Billion Years
Astronomers are reporting the discovery of SPECULOOS-3b, an Earth-sized planet that orbits an ultracool dwarf, a star not much bigger than Jupiter. This is the only second known system such as this. The other one is the well-known TRAPPIST-1, which sports seven Earth-sized planets. The new system is...
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WATCH: NASA Astronomers Discover Third Planet in the Kepler-47 System
NASA & SPACE NEWS ABOVE VIDEO: Astronomers Discover Third Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System (NASA) – Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA’s Kepler space...
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NASA shares stunning image: Hubble Telescope captures triple-star system 550 light-years away
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Hubble Space Telescope has released stunning image of triple-star system. The triple-star system is located about 550 light-years away.NASA explained that the triple-star system is made up of the variable star HP Tau, HP Tau...
photo: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I)
NASA Tests Moonwalk Technology in Arizona Desert
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 15, 2024 NASA is conducting a week-long field...
photo: NASA / Josh Valcarcel
Sun Shoots Out Biggest Solar Flare in Nearly a Decade, but Earth Should Be Safe
(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly a decade Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth and created dazzling northern lights in unaccustomed places. “Not done yet!” the...
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