At an internal staff briefing last week, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy declared the United States has a "manifest destiny to the stars," linking this to the need to win the "space race."
Space Exploration
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The 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as "Earth's eye"—a measure of the complexity of ecological interactions.
Earth Sciences
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Moiré superlattices are periodic patterns formed when two or more thin semiconducting layers are stacked with a small twist angle or lattice mismatch. When 2D materials form these patterns, their electronic, mechanical, and ...
Two consecutive dry years in South Australia have put extreme stress on urban trees and shrubs, with Flinders University experts examining degrees of dieback in Adelaide trees affected by the dry conditions.
Plants & Animals
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An "enormous" submerged mountain that rivals peaks in the Rockies has been mapped for the first time in a previously unexplored area of the western Pacific, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration.
Earth Sciences
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Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can draw material away from ...
Astronomy
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More than a decade ago at UT Southwestern, scientist Steven McKnight chased a compound that turns stem cells into beating heart muscle.
Cell & Microbiology
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A new study from North Carolina State University researchers finds that attraction to biodiversity, also known as biophilia, may vary broadly between individuals rather than being a consistent trait that all people share.
Plants & Animals
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For many, the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were a time of fear, sickness and disruption. But as offices and schools went remote, there were a few silver linings.
Environment
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Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab—and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines run dry, the soil beneath ...
Cell & Microbiology
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