New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station
From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA…
Scientists Uncover Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Languages That Ended 1,000 Years Ago
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that spoke in tongues, sought forbidden love,…
Tornado warnings are rising faster than actual tornadoes. Is that a good thing?
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NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts returning to Earth on July 26: Watch it live
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Soyuz MS-28 Undocking – YouTube Watch On A U.S.-Russian crew will return to Earth…
In microgravity, the human spine lengthens by as much as five centimetres, and astronauts come home temporarily taller than when they left, before gravity compresses the column again within days of landing
Astronauts come home from long stays in orbit measurably taller than when they launched. The usual figure is…
Sand battery: Finland’s radical answer to a renewable energy headache
The industrial-scale sand battery in Finland’s Pornainen can cover almost one month of the town’s heating demands in…
Hubble and Webb uncover Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole after 23 years of observations
For decades, Omega Centauri has presented astronomers with a paradox. The Milky Way’s largest globular cluster contains roughly…
It will slowly consume their host from the inside-out, leaving only the essential organs, to keep the surrogate womb ticking over…
The caterpillar, once very hungry, now looks under the weather, no longer a plump, cabbage-consuming obsessive. Its skin…
When it comes to tornado warnings, experts say it’s better to be safe than sorry
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As Mars’s atmosphere thinned and its surface became cold, dry and irradiated billions of years ago, any surviving microbial life may have found its last refuge underground. Yet the environments most capable of sheltering life could lie metres—or kilometres—below the surface, far deeper than any spacecraft has directly sampled.
Mars has a life-search problem built into its geology. The material we can reach most easily sits in…
Rare Martian meteorite reveals new chapter in the volcanic history of Mars
A rare meteorite discovered in the Arizona desert is giving scientists one of their clearest windows yet into…
Endangered freshwater mussels brought back to Canadian waters for 1st time
Hundreds of endangered mussels were released in the Medway Creek, which connects to the Thames River, in London,…