Can you teach an old Mars rover new tricks? NASA says the answer is a resounding…
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Advanced DC breaker tech speeds up protection, cuts energy loss
The U.S. power grid is under strain from rising demand and modern energy sources. Direct current (DC) offers better efficiency for renewables and data centers, but outdated circuit breakers limit its use.
Traditional mechanical breakers…
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Two Stars Contribute to Irregular Shape of NGC 6072, Webb Observations Show
Using two instruments onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured new high-resolution images of the planetary nebula NGC 6072.
This Webb/NIRCam image shows NGC 6072, a planetary nebula approximately 4,048…
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MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects | MIT News
M.C. Escher’s artwork is a gateway into a world of depth-defying optical illusions, featuring “impossible objects” that break the laws of physics with convoluted geometries. What you perceive his illustrations to be…
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Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?
“We wanted to have a fuel system that was green instead of using hypergolics, so we could land it on a runway and we could walk up to the vehicle without being in hazmat suits,” Tom Vice, then Sierra’s chief executive, told…
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Cosmic rays could help support alien life on worlds outside the ‘Goldilocks zone’
The search for alien life should consider the impact of cosmic rays, a new study suggests.
When scientists look for signs of life beyond Earth, first they check the extraterrestrial worlds inside the “Goldilocks zone” — the area around a star…
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Guinea iron ore megaproject pollutes waterways & farmland, communities say
Mining activities at Guinea’s Simandou iron ore megaproject are polluting waterways and degrading agricultural land, according to community representatives and advocates who spoke…
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Neanderthal “workshop” unearthed in Mazovia
A team of archaeologists from the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw, the University of Warsaw, and the University of Wrocław, have unearthed an ancient Neanderthal workshop in Mazovia, Poland.
The discovery was made in the Zwoleńka River…
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Bacteria found behind Pacific sea star collapse and kelp loss
The tide has finally turned in one of the ocean’s most puzzling and devastating epidemics.
Scientists have finally traced the deadly marine outbreak that wiped out billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast, stretching from Alaska all…
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Paleontologists Unveil New Species of Plesiosaur
Paleontologists have identified an unusual new genus and species of early-diverging plesiosauroid plesiosaur from a nearly complete skeleton found in the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden, Germany.
Life reconstruction of Plesionectes…
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