[CLIP of NASA’s Artemis II splashdown: “Integrity about to complete a journey spanning 694,481 miles from its launch from the Kennedy Space Center back on April 1st, and a trip around the moon.”]
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This ‘hidden gem’ for sale in Mashpee’s Pirate’s Cove has beach access
Get ready to relax and enjoy easy living in this three-bedroom, one bathroom Cape located in Mashpee’s Pirate’s Cove. 29 Musket Lane is currently on the market for $599,900, a price that includes a beautiful house in an equally beautiful…
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“One bad measurement” ruled out as Hubble tension explanation
For 15 years now, the expanding Universe hasn’t added up.
This graph shows a comparison between the value of H0, or the expansion rate today, as derived from Hubble Space Telescope Cepheids and anchors as well as other subsamples of…
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In the Desert, a ‘Cleaning Station’ for Ants
One June morning 20 years ago, Mark Moffett, an entomologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, was drinking coffee behind a cottage in Portal, Ariz., when he noticed something odd in the mesquite desert.
On the ground, as Dr….
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As Artemis II is celebrated, the world faces hard questions about US leadership in space
The successful Artemis II trip around the Moon was a historic achievement – the first crewed lunar fly-by in more than 50 years, and the greatest distance yet travelled by humans from our “pale blue dot”.
The mission was marked by…
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Taking Too Much Vitamin D Can Backfire, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
The “sunshine vitamin” may come with a dark side. Just as a lack of vitamin D can lead to health dangers, so too can an excess.
For years now, scientists have warned that not everyone needs to take vitamin D supplements, and that, in rare…
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Quantum Computers Could Break Encryption Far Sooner Than We Realized : ScienceAlert
Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s supercomputers, working together for 10,000 years,…
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Ocean Heat Waves Are ‘Supercharging’ Hurricane Damage, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
WASHINGTON (AP) – Marine heat waves are supercharging damage caused by hurricanes and tropical cyclones across the globe, a new study found.
Researchers looked at 1,600 tropical cyclones – the broader category of storms that includes…
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The ‘crazy rule-defying’ genes that determine sex
Sex, Genes and Chromosomes: Their Discovery, Function and Evolution Jennifer A. Marshall Graves Cambridge Univ. Press (2026)
“Sex is the most profound normal difference between human individuals,” explains geneticist Jennifer Graves in Sex,…
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How I harness research to inform humanitarian relief efforts
A Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2014 during the Ebola outbreak.Credit: Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty
With degrees in nursing, public policy and social anthropology, Beverley Stringer has worked in various…
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