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China was effectively shut out of the International Space Station after the United States passed the Wolf Amendment in 2011, so it built its own. If the ISS retires on schedule around 2030 and no commercial successor is ready, China's Tiangong could become t - Space Daily

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China was effectively shut out of the International Space Station after the United States passed the Wolf Amendment in 2011, so it built its own. If the ISS retires on schedule around 2030 and no commercial successor is ready, China's Tiangong could become t - Space Daily image

A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution - SciTechDaily

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A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution - SciTechDaily image

There Is a Universal Law in The Shape of All Poop, Physicists Reveal - ScienceAlert

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There Is a Universal Law in The Shape of All Poop, Physicists Reveal - ScienceAlert image

Massive asteroid the size of multiple Empire State Buildings is zipping past Earth this weekend - New York Post

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Massive asteroid the size of multiple Empire State Buildings is zipping past Earth this weekend - New York Post image

Just 18 light-years away, astronomers have found one of the best nearby targets in the search for life: a candidate super-Earth called GJ 251 c, sitting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Future giant telescopes may be able to image it directly — and look f - Space Daily

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Just 18 light-years away, astronomers have found one of the best nearby targets in the search for life: a candidate super-Earth called GJ 251 c, sitting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Future giant telescopes may be able to image it directly — and look f - Space Daily image

Astronomers used to assume galaxies formed first and slowly grew the black holes at their centres. But JWST is now finding objects in the early universe where the black hole appears to have arrived first — already enormous before a full galaxy had grown aro - Space Daily

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Astronomers used to assume galaxies formed first and slowly grew the black holes at their centres. But JWST is now finding objects in the early universe where the black hole appears to have arrived first — already enormous before a full galaxy had grown aro - Space Daily image

Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words - Futurism

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Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words - Futurism image

Lamprey brain atlas reveals 450-million-year blueprint of vertebrate brains - Phys.org

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Lamprey brain atlas reveals 450-million-year blueprint of vertebrate brains - Phys.org image

Primate evolution kept aging rates stable for 25 million years despite lifespan gaps - Phys.org

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Primate evolution kept aging rates stable for 25 million years despite lifespan gaps - Phys.org image

June strawberry moon to hang low in the summer sky. When to see it in N.J. - NJ.com

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Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin - Live Science

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Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin - Live Science image

Strange glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision - Space

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Strange glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision - Space image

Only one spacecraft has ever visited Uranus or Neptune: Voyager 2, which flew past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Nearly four decades later, no mission has returned, leaving many of the biggest questions those flybys raised — about the planets’ interi - Space Daily

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Only one spacecraft has ever visited Uranus or Neptune: Voyager 2, which flew past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Nearly four decades later, no mission has returned, leaving many of the biggest questions those flybys raised — about the planets’ interi - Space Daily image

Scientists took one of the naked mole rat’s longevity tricks — a gene that helps it produce unusually protective hyaluronan — and put it into mice. The result: the mice lived longer, had less inflammation, and were more resistant to tumours. - Space Daily

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Scientists took one of the naked mole rat’s longevity tricks — a gene that helps it produce unusually protective hyaluronan — and put it into mice. The result: the mice lived longer, had less inflammation, and were more resistant to tumours. - Space Daily image

We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 20 - Space Daily

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We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 20 - Space Daily image

In 2018, low Earth orbit still had months of margin: if satellites stopped dodging one another, researchers estimate it could take 164 days before a catastrophic collision. By 2025, after the rise of megaconstellations, that margin had collapsed to just 5.5 days. - Space Daily

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In 2018, low Earth orbit still had months of margin: if satellites stopped dodging one another, researchers estimate it could take 164 days before a catastrophic collision. By 2025, after the rise of megaconstellations, that margin had collapsed to just 5.5 days. - Space Daily image

A bowhead whale can live for more than 200 years, yet it appears unusually resistant to cancer — and its genome carries genetic changes that may help explain why. Researchers have found signs of enhanced DNA repair in bowhead cells, turning one of the - Space Daily

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A bowhead whale can live for more than 200 years, yet it appears unusually resistant to cancer — and its genome carries genetic changes that may help explain why. Researchers have found signs of enhanced DNA repair in bowhead cells, turning one of the - Space Daily image

In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat just two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed that compressed minute onto Voyager's Golden Record as a private love letter now more than 25 billion kilome - Space Daily

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In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat just two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed that compressed minute onto Voyager's Golden Record as a private love letter now more than 25 billion kilome - Space Daily image

Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival - Spaceflight Now

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Clean crystal surface lets single molecules hit ultimate quantum limit - Phys.org

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Clean crystal surface lets single molecules hit ultimate quantum limit - Phys.org image