In October 2017, humanity caught its first-ever glimpse of an interstellar object—a visitor from beyond our solar system—passing nearby the sun. We named it "Oumuamua, and its unusual properties fascinated and confounded ...
Astronomy
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If there is one driving force in the commercial space industry it is economics. The whole concept of reusable booster rocket emphasizes the importance of getting launch costs down. SpaceX, the company leading the charge in ...
Space Exploration
Apr 19, 2021
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In the past, we've reported about how the Roman Space Telescope is potentially going to be able to detect hundreds of thousands of exoplanets using a technique known as microlensing. Exoplanets won't be the only things it ...
Astronomy
Apr 19, 2021
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Researchers discovered, while exploring the photomechanical properties of diarylethene, that under irradiation with UV light the crystal of the compound peels off into micrometer sized crystals at a world's fastest speed ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 19, 2021
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How do youngsters forced onto the street by violence and poverty go from being considered vulnerable, displaced minors to feared criminals?
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2021
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Vehicles that can propel themselves along the water and self-navigate around any object in their path could soon be a reality thanks to new research from The Australian National University (ANU).
General Physics
Apr 19, 2021
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In the weeks following its launch in early 2006, when NASA's New Horizons was still close to home, it took just minutes to transmit a command to the spacecraft, and hear back that the onboard computer received and was ready ...
Space Exploration
Apr 19, 2021
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The sexist alpha male of the 1960s advertising world as depicted in Mad Men is still alive and well and prowling the offices of today's creatives, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2021
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Money problems became the chief source of discontent for people in lockdown, more so than not having close friends or living with a partner, new research says.
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2021
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A 3D biomaterial scaffold design to slowly release stem cells ensures that implanted stem cells stick around to relieve pain and reverse arthritis in mice knee joints. This reduces the use of stem cells by 90%, thus avoiding ...
Cell & Microbiology
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