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Blue Origin’s New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans
Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready
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NASA reveals next steps to build permanent moon base
'The Moon Base will be America's and humanity's first outpost on another celestial world,' said NASA administrator Jared Isaacman.
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Mosquitoes Can Learn to Love Insect Repellant, Scientist Reveal
The chemical DEET works—but only until it doesn't.
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Forecasters predict below-average hurricane season, advise against complacency
Forecasters say expected El Niño should temper hurricanes in Atlantic, urge preparedness.
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SpaceX’s Starship rockets grounded pending investigation after test flight
The spacecraft continued around the world, releasing 20 mock satellites before ending the mission as planned with a fiery splashdown in the Indian Ocean
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NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones
For next year's Artemis III, another team of astronauts will practise docking NASA's Orion capsule in orbit around Earth with the lunar landers being developed for crews by Blue Origin…
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Chandrayaan-2 detects possible presence of subsurface ice near south pole of moon
Scientists used observations from the Chandrayaan-2’s Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (DFSAR) payload
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Daily Quiz | On renewable energy technologies
As the aftershocks in the war on Iran continue to affect fossil fuel supplies, here’s a quiz on renewable energy technologies.
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Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment? – podcast
Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have…
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“Little red dot” in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole
The black hole accounts for over two-thirds the mass of the object it inhabits.
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US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
"We aren’t trading speed for scale; we are demanding both," says the military's program manager.
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Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry
Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted
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Air pollution cut India’s solar power output by 9.6% in 2023, study says
India’s loss is one of the world’s highest, with the most electricity generation potential lost in the country’s heavily polluted north
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How do lightning rods prevent lightning strikes from reaching people?
While a lightning strike occurs between a cloud and an object on or near the ground, it takes the path of least resistance, which means it moves towards the closest…
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NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon
Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base
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Moon base plans revealed as Nasa chief says ‘the grand return is close at hand’
The outpost at the satellite’s south pole may eventually spread out over hundreds of square miles
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Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.
Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story.
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust
Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit
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Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks
What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?
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Indian researcher names newly discovered galaxy structure after Manipur’s Loktak Lake
Dr. Laishram said the idea of naming the structure after Loktak Lake came to him immediately after the discovery
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The Cookware Industry Has a Major Fight Brewing Over PFAS Claims
There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans.
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Tail belonging to strange ostrich-like dinosaur discovered off coast of Canada
Researchers unsure how fossil came to rest on small Canadian island
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Studies reveal why some cancers are so much more dangerous than others
Researchers say findings may help improve diagnoses and treatment
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Asteroid named after Nijmegen amateur astronomer
An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter has been named after Astrid Eeuwes, a 45-year-old amateur astronomer from Nijmegen who...
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Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission
Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!
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The physics of thermometers, temperatures and cold atoms
We use different devices to measure temperature. The science behind them, and concepts such as absolute zero and cold atoms, reveal the complex physics underlying the measurement of heat and…
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Tiny blue deep-sea octopus discovered near Galapagos confirmed as new species
Palm-size creature was found nearly 5,800ft underwater
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The evolutionary history of flowering plants are threatened with extinction
The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon.
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A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid
NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.
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Webb telescope captures weather on exoplanet 700 lightyears away
As state-of-the-art instruments like the Extremely Large Telescope, which Europe is currently building in northern Chile, become operational, astronomers could discover many exoplanet nurseries around distant stars, increasing manifold the…
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Chinese scientists build hand-held device to detect early cancer signs from drop of blood
Prototype achieves diagnosis accuracy of up to 95 per cent, researchers say
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The Mediterranean secret to keeping your home cool in a heatwave
Ancient techniques once suited to the Mediterranean now hold lessons for modern Britain, Rosa Schiano-Phan writes
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New Species of Tiny Blue Octopus Discovered in the Galápagos
A rare find in the Galápagos has marine biologists excited.
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Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.
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Sperm whale ‘clicks’ have complex patterns similar to human speech
Researchers have revealed that sperm whales, which communicate using clicking sounds, also vary the sounds in ways that resemble how humans use vowels
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Science in Wartime: What Are We Willing to Lose?
Imagine you are a European scientist, in the early 2000’s, working on a possible treatment for dementia.