New hairy-legged, three-lipped, red-eyed sea spider species discovered
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Will SpaceX’s Starship finally make it to orbit? We’re about to find out
There’s a lot riding on SpaceX’s next Starship launch, both physically and conceptually, as the company prepares the…
Thai capital Bangkok declared disaster zone amid widespread flooding
BangkokReuters — Bangkok’s governor on Saturday declared Thailand’s capital city a disaster-affected zone after torrential rain led to widespread…
With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
Early cost estimates for the Habitable Worlds Observatory come in at around $11 billion, on par with Webb,…
Marmosets start out with the makings of a folded brain – so why does theirs stay smooth?
The marmoset brain starts out with the same layout as folded primate brains, but slower-dividing, simpler cells help…
New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth’s Atmosphere as Fuel To Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
Fully Assembled RF Helicon-based Plasma Thruster. Credit: F. Romano A satellite engine that uses atmospheric gases as fuel…
ΛCDM in a courtroom – Nature
ΛCDM in a courtroom NatureBiggest Supernova Dataset Yet Challenges Dark Energy Theory SciTechDaily🌌 A new clue that dark energy may…
A photon crossed 2 billion light-years to reach Earth when physics says it shouldn’t
The highest-energy photon ever seen from a cosmic blast should have been absorbed en route, and quantum gravity…
Scientists excluded elephants from East African savanna plots for 15 years; dung beetle numbers fell 67%, biomass dropped 51% and species richness declined 23%, revealing how elephants sustain an insect network
According to the research published by Science Adviser newsletter, dung beetles rarely attract the attention given to elephants,…
Shared neural noise may not limit the brain’s information capacity
Our brains internally represent the outside world through the coordinated activity of billions of neurons. A single neuron…
Europe just built a 10-ton giant telescope that can study 1,000 stars at once
Europe just built a 10-ton giant telescope that can study 1,000 stars at once – Futura-Sciences September 25,…
18-detector system hunts elusive neutrinos from nuclear reactor
MIT researchers working on an international neutrino experiment have expanded its detector setup from two devices to 18…