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Locusts Get a Sensory Assist From Nanomaterials
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have fitted a locust antenna with collagen foam carrying nanomaterials, turning the insect’s own sense…
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NASA TRACERS Satellites Report First Results on Earth Magnetic Shield
NASA’s twin TRACERS satellites have delivered their first results on magnetic reconnection, the explosive process that lets energy from the Sun’s solar…
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SpaceX Closes October With 700th Falcon 9 Launch
SpaceX closed out October with the 700th launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, a Starlink mission that lifted off from Vandenberg Space…
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Rare Halloween Fireballs Will Be Visible in the Night Sky This Weekend
Skywatchers get a seasonal treat this weekend. The Taurid meteor showers, nicknamed the Halloween fireballs, are active across the night sky, and…
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Strange Beaked Hell Chicken Is the First Fruit-Eating Dinosaur
Scientists have identified the first known fruit-eating dinosaur, a turkey-sized, toothless creature with a parrot-like head that lived about 66 million years…
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NASA Ponders Hubble Servicing Mission or Controlled Deorbit
NASA has asked commercial space companies for ideas to service the Hubble Space Telescope, boost its orbit, or bring it down in…
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Voyager 1 Back in Contact After Brief Silence in Interstellar Space
NASA says its Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after a brief and unexplained loss of communication in interstellar…
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Electrical Signals Reveal Hidden Magnetic Information in Altermagnets for First Time
Researchers have shown for the first time that electrical signals can read magnetic information hidden inside a new class of materials called…
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Martian meteorite found in the Sahara is 4.1 billion years old
A meteorite found in the Sahara desert in 2022 formed in the crust of Mars at least 4.1 billion years ago, according…
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Spacewalkers Install Seventh Roll-Out Solar Array, Nearing End of Station Power Upgrade
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk completed a seven-hour, 11-minute spacewalk on Thursday, installing the seventh of…