NASA is racing to save an aging space telescope before it burns up in Earth’s atmosphere. To do that, the space agency has recently limited the mission’s operations in orbit to keep it from moving around so much.
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AI uncovers solutions to Erdős problems, moving closer to transforming math
One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and indefatigable 20th-century mathematician Paul…
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ULA’s Vulcan rocket suffers another booster problem on the way to orbit
Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the…
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Subterranean tunnel, possibly used for medieval cult rituals, discovered in Stone Age tomb in Germany
While excavating a Stone Age burial site in Germany, archaeologists stumbled upon a mysterious “earth tunnel” that someone made in the Middle Ages, thousands of years after the grave was dug, possibly to hide their furtive ritual practices.
At…
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Metal tubes stay afloat even after severe damage — opening the door to unsinkable ships
More than a century after the RMS Titanic slipped beneath the Atlantic, engineers still chase the dream of ships that refuse to sink. At the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics, that goal now looks less like fantasy and more like…
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Deja vu: Vulcan Centaur rocket powers through ‘significant performance anomaly’ on satellite launch
United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket can certainly overcome adversity.
The Vulcan Centaur launched for the fourth time ever on Thursday morning (Feb. 12), carrying two spy satellites aloft for the U.S. Space Force from Cape…
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Gravitational lensing technique unveils supermassive black hole pairs – Phys.org
- Gravitational lensing technique unveils supermassive black hole pairs Phys.org
- No Sign of Gravitational Waves From Single Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Yet Universe Today
- ‘The beacons were lit!’ A system to detect and map merging black…
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Discovery in ancient Alaskan 40,000-year-old permafrost could help US military survive in extreme cold
FOX, Alaska– Research biologists with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers discovered 26 new microbes species that could aid in developing new technologies that help the U.S. military survive and thrive in extreme cold regions.
The U.s. Army Corps…
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Scientists have discovered one of elephants’ most sensitive secrets – The Washington Post
- Scientists have discovered one of elephants’ most sensitive secrets The Washington Post
- An Elephant Is Blind Without Its Whiskers The New York Times
- Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing “intelligence” Ars Technica
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Scientists Discover Hidden Giant Beneath Antarctica’s Ice: A 175-Million-Year-Old Geological Revelation
Beneath the vast, frozen expanse of Antarctica lies a hidden mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades. In a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers uncovered an unexpected clue, pink granite boulders…
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