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New measurement of diamond phase change could mean increased ICF energy gain – ANS/Nuclear Newswire
“We were able to take small samples of diamond and shock-pressure them to temperatures higher than the surface of the…
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Voyager 1 doesn’t die because nothing fails, with nearly 50 years of interstellar travel and every original system still working. The job ends because a plutonium battery that loses 4 watts per year eventually runs out of watts
Voyager 1 remains operational, and the expected decline in its supply of nuclear power is the mission’s central limiting resource.…
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Science or imagination? Mysterious ‘Paper Mills’ Let You Pay to Be a Published Author – Research Fraud | sciences
DRhys Richardson’s phone is constantly ringing with notifications. The scientific research integrity specialist has been tracking shadowy organizations known as…
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When will NASA’s Nancy Grace Telescope reach its home in space? L2 Dark Energy Dark Matter James Webb Telescope Hubble Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to begin its journey to a new deep space home on August…
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Today’s moon phase explained: What the moon will look like on August 15, 2026
The moon’s visibility is still fairly low as it begins to return after the new moon. If you’re interested in…
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Memories mysteriously remain alive after the brain shuts down, and scientists don’t know why
Welcome back to the recap! We’re back to our regularly scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies that…
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Artificial Intelligence takes control: The first “self-driving” telescope successfully observes the night sky
AI has already transformed fields ranging from healthcare and finance to logistics and self-driving vehicles. Now, artificial intelligence is turning…
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We’ve had an eclipse: NASA photographers share stellar images from this week’s solar event — and there’s at least one Easter egg worth discovering
The total solar eclipse of 2026 may have passed, but thanks to NASA photographers who updated the space agency’s eclipse…
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Gypsum crystals discovered by Zurong on the roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine from which they originated — tiny, sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chapter in Martian history.
China’s Zhurong spacecraft crossed a thin layer of wet, flat rock in southern Utopia Planitia. The new analysis suggests that…
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In April 2025, four private astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Fram 2 spacecraft became the first humans ever to orbit Earth in true polar orbit — a path never taken by NASA, the Soviet Union, or any other government space program in the entire history of human spaceflight.
At 01:46 UTC on April 1, 2025, the Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Resilience launched south from Florida with four private…
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