HELSINKI — China launched its second planetary exploration mission Wednesday, sending Tianwen-2 to sample a near Earth asteroid and later survey a main belt comet.
Tianwen-2 lifted off on a Long March 3B rocket at 1:31 p.m. Eastern (1731…
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Perseverance rover captures a surprise dust devil in a self-portrait
When NASA’s Perseverance rover paused on May 10 to take a celebratory self-portrait, the robot got more than it bargained for. In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust – what scientists call a dust devil – spiraled across the landscape…
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Hinge May Herald A New Wave Of Digital Health IPOs
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at how Hinge Health’s successful IPO may be a trendsetter, Indian billionaire Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s ‘biosimilars’ business, RFK’s changes to Covid vaccine guidance and more. To get it in…
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Solving the Moon’s Magnetic Mystery
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) might have solved a decades-old mystery regarding how the Moon lost its magnetic field with a recent study published in Science…
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Underwater landslide prediction method could keep offshore facilities safe
Researchers in the U.S. have come up with a new method that could potentially predict underwater landslides before they happen and improve the resilience of oil rigs and other offshore facilities.
Developed by experts at the Texas A&M…
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Sit Back and Enjoy NASA’s Epic Landscape Photo of Mars
A cropped view of the Curiosity Rover’s panoramic of the Martian landscape. 160 years ago pioneering photographers were among the first to capture the landscapes of the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite. One and a half centuries later, a robot…
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High fat diet disrupts metabolism and increases disease risk
Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems – not only weight gain but also an increased risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases.
At the cellular level, hundreds of changes take place in response to a…
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Basal ganglia neurons precisely regulate complex movement timing
Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement-they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher…
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Watch mesmerizing 1,000-foot-tall lava fountains: Kilauea volcano erupting in ways not seen for 40 years
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been erupting with gigantic fountains of lava, the likes of which haven’t been seen in around 40 years.
On Sunday (May 25), some of these lava fountains shot up more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) into the sky….
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