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Stars in the faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II home of PicII-503 an iron deficient second generation star. | Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage…
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‘At the edge of what we thought possible’: Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe
Scientists have adopted the role of “cosmic archaeologists” to discover a rare, iron-deficient second-generation star — essentially a fossil record of our universe’s chemical evolution. Just as uncovering artifacts here on Earth teaches us…
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Roman artifact discovered in the Americas shatters New World history as we know it
The discovery of a Roman artifact in the Americas has sparked a debate about who truly discovered the New World.
While Christopher Columbus is hailed as the first in 1492, archaeologists uncovered a small terracotta head of a bearded man carved…
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Scientists Find Soil Fungus That Can Freeze Water and It Might Be Key to Engineering the Weather
These are both liquid and frozen water droplets. They are at the same temperature, but the frozen droplets contain an ice nucleator. Credit: Boris Vinatzer. You might think water automatically turns to ice the moment the temperature…
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Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes
The Emergence of Agriculture: A Global View (Routledge, 2007).
Pearsall, D. M. in The Handbook of South American Archaeology (eds Silverman, H. & Isbell, W. H.) 105–120 (Springer, 2008).
Lombardo, U. et al. Early Holocene crop cultivation and…
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Expect Sonic Booms As SpaceX Prepares To Launch 25 Starlink Satellites From Vandenberg This Week
Residents along California’s Central Coast may hear sonic booms this week as SpaceX prepares for a launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SpaceX is planning to launch 25 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The…
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SpaceX fires up next-gen ‘V3’ Starship for 1st time ahead of April launch (photos)
SpaceX’s biggest, most powerful Starship to date just breathed fire for the first time.
On Monday (March 16), the company conducted a static fire test with Starship‘s “Super Heavy” first stage, briefly igniting the booster’s engines while the…
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Water From a 400-Million-Year-Old Prehistoric Plant Holds a Chemical Mystery From Space
Scientists have uncovered an astonishing discovery involving the Equisetum horsetail plant, a living relic from the age of the dinosaurs. Researchers have found that water drawn through the plant’s hollow stems carries an extreme oxygen…
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Artemis 2 rocket rollout latest news: NASA’s giant moon rocket returns to launch pad March 19
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Artemis 2 astronauts enter quarantine
Photo of the Artemis 2 crew in their pre-quarantine days. From left to right: NASA’s Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s… Continue Reading
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Modern rocketry turns 100—and NASA says the best is yet to come
We are in the space age. Rockets launch to space almost every day. Orbital space stations have now housed humans continuously for decades. The sky is swarming with satellites and space telescopes. Humans have been to the moon—and are going…
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