Engineers only get one shot at making a spacecraft work as intended—or at least they only get one shot in space. In the preparation leading up to that final, climactic moment, there are typically thousands of hours of tests ...
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2021
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Archeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima have unearthed a mummy believed to be between 800 and 1,200 years old—and, surprisingly, bound with rope.
Archaeology
Dec 1, 2021
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Researchers at TU Wien are investigating new materials that can be used to reduce the operation temperature of solid oxide fuel cells. To do so, they apply an innovative method.
Materials Science
Nov 30, 2021
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As ongoing revelations about Facebook's algorithm are showing, social media's ability to shape our attitudes by steering users into echo chambers is raising questions about our national discourse and drawing increasing attention ...
Economics & Business
Nov 18, 2021
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Comets are icy and dusty snowballs of material that have remained relatively unchanged since they first formed billions of years ago. Studying the small bodies provides clues about the formation of the solar system.
Condensed Matter
Nov 3, 2021
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Every day, social media users are exposed to fake news and political polarization on social networks. What makes people vulnerable to believing false information they find online?
Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2021
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A team of researchers with the Gibraltar National Museum has found a hidden chamber in one of the caves that make up Gorham's Cave Complex in Gibraltar. They have posted a press statement on their website describing what ...
How do the chemical elements, the building blocks of our universe, get built? This question has been at the core of nuclear physics for the better part of a century.
General Physics
Sep 28, 2021
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Diamondback terrapins have always found it hard to catch a break.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2021
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From ESA's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory—one of a suite of labs based at the ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands—a view from an intricate test campaign for the next generation of European ...
Astronomy
Jul 8, 2021
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