In 2021, a group of researchers at the Paris Brain Institute, including Andrillon, discovered that these self-experimenters had gotten it right. Waking up from this earliest sleep stage, known as N1, seemed to put people in a “creative…
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NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad
The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Thursday night,…
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Nikon’s Small World contest highlights microscopic beauty of weevils, butterfly eggs and more
The rice weevil is a pest that buries its eggs inside grains of rice. After hatching, the larva stays inside the grain, consuming it as it develops.
“I had observed rice weevils in grains before, but never one with its wings spread,” You said…
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Scientists Just Detected a Long-Lost Planet ‘Hiding’ Inside Earth
If proto-Earth had all its parts and chemistry replaced to become the Earth we know today, can the two still be considered the same planet? That’s the planetary version of Theseus’s Paradox, an old philosophical puzzle about identity…
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Newly found asteroid will fly by Earth later today, closer than the moon
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The small asteroid 2025 TP5 passed closer to Earth than the moon. | Credit: ESA
A newly discovered space rock will zoom safely by Earth later…
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SpaceX posts Starship booster feat that’s so nutty, it doesn’t even look real
With the loss of the $7,500 Electric Vehicle Tax Credit, it looks as if Tesla CEO Elon Musk was right all along.
As the tax credit’s loss starts to take effect, car companies that have long relied on the $7,500 credit to create…
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Heavy Water Found In Planet-Forming Disk In First-Ever Detection
The origin of water on Earth is a complex affair. Was it trapped in the rocks that formed our planet or was it brought by comets and asteroids afterwards? We do not know for sure, but we can move the question even further. Did the water form with…
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Northern Lights Could Dazzle 15 States Tonight
Between October 11 and 13, the Sun unleashed a torrent of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Now, these powerful bursts of solar plasma and magnetic energy are on a collision course with Earth.
Space weather forecasters expect them to arrive…
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Could simple blood tests identify cancer earlier?
Around four years ago, now 77-year-old John Gormly went for what was supposed to be a routine blood test. But the results were life-changing.
The test suggested Gormly had colon cancer, which a colonoscopy later confirmed was Stage 2, meaning the…
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Understanding a rocket’s jellyfish effect
FLORIDA — It is not uncommon to see a SpaceX launch, but what gives many a surprised delight is when the company’s famed Falcon 9 rocket creates the jellyfish effect.
This was seen Thursday morning in many parts of the Space Coast and as far…
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