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“These X-Rays Just Exposed the Sun’s Fury” as Violent Solar Winds Threatening Earth’s Satellites Ignite Global Alarm Over Space Weather and Tech Infrastructure Collapse
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How the Potato Got Its Start Nine Million Years Ago—Thanks to a Tomato
The Potato’s Mysterious Family Tree Revealed—And It Includes Tomatoes
About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the modern-day cultivated potato
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Former members of Crew-9, Starliner-1 missions unite to fly to the Space Station – Spaceflight Now
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with Crew Dragon Endeavour, stands at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The rocket will launch the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now A group…
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New Deep Sea Creatures ‘Challenge Current Models of Life,’ Scientists Say
The Sun powers almost all life on Earth, but chemosynthetic life is the fascinating exception. These organisms find fuel in chemical reactions, allowing them to flourish in places where the Sun doesn’t shine—like the deep…
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Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich ocean planet: ‘This has certainly increased the chances of habitability’
The saga surrounding Neptune-size “super-Earth” exoplanet K2-18 b just got a whole lot more interesting. For a quick recap, this is the world a team of scientists recently suggested could host life — to the dismay of other scientists in the…
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My daughter has an incredible opportunity. My wife won’t let her participate.
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here.
Dear Care and Feeding,
My wife and I have a daughter, “Emmy,” who is 10. She is very much into science, and there…
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Lightning Strike Sets New Record for Longest Ever Measured
515-Mile-Long Lightning Megaflash Sets New World Record
A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization
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Why Earth Is Rotating Extra Fast This Summer, Shortening Days by Milliseconds
If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived through.
For most of humanity’s history, we…
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“NASA Calls It the ‘Skyfall Maneuver’” as Plan to Drop 6 Mars Helicopters Mid-Air Divides Experts and Fuels Outrage Over Billion-Dollar Space Risks
IN A NUTSHELL - 🚀 Skyfall is an innovative mission by NASA and AeroVironment, Inc. to deploy six autonomous helicopters on Mars.
- 🛩️ Building on Ingenuity’s success, the mission aims to enhance Martian exploration with…
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MIT experiment proves Einstein wrong in century-old quantum debate
In a stunning new demonstration of quantum mechanics, a team of MIT physicists has settled a nearly century-old debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, with the results showing Einstein was wrong. The team performed an idealized version…
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