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GeekSpin - 12 hours 8 min agoRoad-tripping across the solar system sounds a lot more realistic when there’s somewhere to refuel along the way. According to a new NASA-backed study, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have everything future astronauts need for a deep-space pit stop, including vast amounts of hydrocarbons that could be turned into fuel, food, plastics, and other essential […] Read the original article here: NASA scientist says Saturn’s moon could fuel space travel...
Scientists in Minnesota say they've built something from scratch that's not alive but behaves like it was. Synthetic biologist Kate Adamala and her team created "SpudCells": tiny, wobbling spheres assembled from non-living chemicals that can grow, copy their synthetic DNA, and split into "offspring," according to research posted online . Unlike...
An artist's concept of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory being ferried to a higher orbit over Earth by the start-up Katalyst Space Technologies's Link spacecraft.
" The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest," SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public . Later that month, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for an orbital data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites in low Earth orbit, 500 to 2,000 kilometers above Earth. And just three days before the...
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GeekSpin - 13 hours 42 min agoFor centuries, historians and treasure hunters have searched for any physical proof of the Ark of the Covenant, one of the most famous lost artifacts in history. Now, a new archaeological study at the ancient site of Shiloh may have finally uncovered its real-world home. Researchers have excavated the foundations of an ancient structure with […] Read the original article here: Archaeologists may have found ruins that housed the Ark of the Covenant...
Planning a Fourth of July getaway? Use less gas and cut your emissions by easing up on the pedal.
North America will bake in extreme temperatures amid celebrations for the United States' 250th birthday.
Mother Jones - 14 hours 44 min agoGrowing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s and '90s, a daughter and granddaughter of social justice activists, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein fell in love with math and the physical sciences and developed a profound curiosity about the cosmos (though the smoggy night sky of her childhood blocked her view of the stars). She soon developed a […]...
Last Word On Nothing - 15 hours 43 min agoThis post from years back still makes me smile. I hope you’ll also enjoy it again! Not every juicy morsel works in every recipe. As a writer, I often come across something meaty, think, HUH! and then drag the link to a rarely visited desktop folder because, you know, I'm not writing a piece about […] The post This Post is About Porcupines…Again appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Weaker monsoon rains are likely to impact farm output but the government says it has enough grain stocks to deal with any shortages.
Australian Geographic - 18 hours 39 min agoSix months after conservationists used drone technology in a mouse-eradication project on a remote Western Australian island, no trace of the rodents has been found. The post No sign of mice after world-first drone operation on Australian island appeared first on Australian Geographic .
NASA just put more money behind its plan to turn the moon into a long-term outpost , NBC News reports. The agency on Tuesday handed out nearly $600 million in new contracts to three companies Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines to deliver scientific gear to the lunar surface starting in...
Nature - 1 day 45 min agoRowan Hooper talks about his book Togetherness...
Nature - 1 day 45 min agoPotentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.
Nature - 1 day 45 min agoMetastasis remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality and is driven by pronounced tumour cell plasticity1. Here we identify the transmembrane glycoprotein trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP2) as a marker of poor-prognosis colorectal cancer (CRC) associated with WNTlow, fetal-like tumour cell states that are linked to metastasis and therapy resistance. Functional analyses demonstrate that TROP2+ cells exhibit context-dependent stem-like capacity and the ability to initiate metastatic...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 1 hour agoIn a year when a record 1008 people stood on the summit of Everest, the AG awards for adventure remind us adventure is about far more than records or rankings. It's about meaningful experiences, fuelled by curiosity but made possible through resilience. The post Winners: 2026 Adventurer of the Year Awards appeared first on Australian Geographic .
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NASA announced it had awarded additional contracts for robotic landers to companies the agency had previously hired. The Blue Ghost lander, from Firefly Aerospace, successfully completed its mission last year.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 3 hours agoEditors of a journal run by a prestigious math institute will close up shop and form a new journal with an independent publisher, with one editor citing Wiley's increased oversight as the reason behind the move. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics is the journal for the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University. … Continue reading Editors of Courant math journal to leave Wiley, establish new roots with independent publisher...
In the first, crucial days after Venezuela's earthquake, the people closest to the disaster were on their own.
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