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? NASA is conducting tests on advanced supersonic parachutes equipped with innovative sensors to improve Mars missions. ? The EPIC team successfully deployed a sensor-equipped parachute using a drone,…

The air we breathe may seem like a permanent feature of our planet, but new research suggests it’s far from eternal. A study published in Nature Geoscience by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Toho University paints a stark picture: Earth’s…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric…

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic time. Its observations have stretched cosmologists’ timelines of when galaxies may have first started to form. And now…

More than 6,000 years ago, in the Krumlov Forest of South Moravia in the Czech Republic, two sisters endured a hard life in an ancient mining settlement. Now, thanks to advanced forensic methods and archaeological research, their incredibly…

That said, this chemical trick is not a way to freeze time and break the physical laws of the Universe. It’s more like a bra for your ice cream – or a nice, supportive pair of dessert hosiery. As the hours pass, Wicks found in later…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! And happy August. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the month with a quick roundup of some of the latest news in science.

First, we have Andrea Thompson,…

August is the perfect time to take cuttings of many popular shrubs and perennials. By this point in the growing season, all of your plants will have produced a good amount of healthy green growth, most of which should be semi-ripe (in other…

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