A new video from SpaceX, unveiled via Twitter Friday (Jan. 25), offers a glimpse of what NASA astronauts will see when they board a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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NASA Releases New, High-Quality New Horizons Image of the Ultima Thule “Snowman” Asteroid – Yahoo News
This new image highlights all kinds of features that weren’t visible in the initial images.
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Amateur Astronomy Equipment May Have Spotted Tiny Object Beyond Neptune – Gizmodo
Japanese astronomers spotted evidence of tiny Kuiper Belt object at the outer edge of the Solar System using a pair of telescopes you could buy online, according to a new paper.
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The Hubble Telescope’s Deep View of the Universe Is Now Even More Astounding! – Space.com
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most famous images peered even deeper into the cosmos than scientists had thought.
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China gene-edits cloned monkeys to have mental illnesses – Sky News
There are serious questions over the ethics of the study, with the macaques showing signs of anxiety after a gene was removed.
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Microplastics Discovered in Key Drinking Water Source – Gizmodo
The one thing we humans have done an incredible job of leaving behind is plastic. Microplastics, in particular, are seemingly everywhere these days: in sea turtles, table salt, and even beer. Now, a new study offers evidence that microplastics may be infiltra…
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Squeezed graphene becomes a superconductor – physicsworld.com
Pressure puts a new twist on magic-angle bilayers
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Earth’s Magnetic Field Almost Collapsed 565 Million Years Ago – Motherboard
Our planet’s core probably started solidifying in the late Ediacaran period, which recharged the magnetic field in the nick of time.
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Supermassive black holes reveal universe is expanding faster than previously thought, study finds – The Independent
‘We may need to explore new physics’
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Physicists find the limits of multitasking in biological networks – Phys.org
Many complex systems in biology can be conceptualized as networks. This perspective helps researchers understand how biological systems work on a fundamental level, and can be used to answer key questions in biology, medicine, and engineering.
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