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Tricorder Tech: ESA Away Team Portable Microscope Training
Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams,…
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Juno Data Unlocks Secrets of Alien Auroras on Jupiter
What can Jupiter’s auroras teach scientists about auroras on other planets? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a new type…
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Experimental Models On The Prebiotic Formation Of Biopolymer Building Blocks
Origin & Evolution of Life
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Venezuela tries an environmental rebrand, but critics aren’t buying it
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last month unveiled the Gran Misión Madre Tierra, or “Great Mother Earth Mission,” designed to address Venezuela’s climate emergency.
- The mission mandates the creation of…
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See how fractals forever changed math and science
Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born.
In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside the boundaries of conventional…
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Deep-sea mining is a false solution to our challenges (commentary)
- A new op-ed argues that the case for deep-sea mining is weak and also that the facts used by its proponents don’t add up, but rather cloud their judgment.
- The divergence between scientific understanding of likely…
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Sun at the Center: Teacher Ambassadors Bring Heliophysics to Classrooms Nationwide
For the fourth year in a row, the American Association of Physics Teachers, a collaborator on the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (HEAT), selected eight new educators to serve as ambassadors for heliophysics education. Meeting in…
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Whale shark hotspot discovered along the Great Barrier Reef
- Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the world and are endangered but are hard to study because they’re largely solitary creatures that roam great distances.
- There are only about 30 sites…
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What is a ‘Black Moon?’ This rare lunar event is coming this week
Once every month, the moon is invisible in the night sky. But once in a blue moon, the moon is a Black Moon.
Later this week, a new moon dubbed a “Black Moon” will hang in the night sky. Though a Black Moon is a colloquial term for different…
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