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Artemis II crew captures rare double auroras on the dark side of Earth as they zoom toward the moon — Space photo of the week
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Africa is tearing itself in two faster than previously thought say experts – leading to a totally new ocean forming
Published in the journal Nature Communications, the findings show that the crust between the Turkana Rift, a 500-kilometre-long…
To Mars with Elon Musk: Can world’s first trillionaire take you to the little red planet?
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How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 close encounter: a new image – 13 June 2026.
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Early SpaceX Employee: Equity Helped Pay Off Student Loans, Buy Home
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World’s first working nuclear clocks built after decades of effort
For decades, nuclear clocks have existed as one of physics’ most tempting promises. A device that could keep…
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Solar Tops Coal in U.S. Power Mix for the First Month Ever
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Convolutional causal learning for aerodynamic flows | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same strange report — fresh Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder — yet the smell never survived the trip home, and more than fifty years later no one has fully explained what they were breathing in up there.
The Apollo astronauts who tracked Moon dust back into their cabin kept filing the same odd report. Fresh…