On Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists are set to lift off aboard a SpaceX rocket. Organized and funded by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the Inspiration4 mission touts itself as "the first all-civilian mission ...
Space Exploration
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A few minutes of weightlessness, or a few days. A short hop above the Earth's atmosphere, or a journey to the Moon and back... the era of space tourism is upon us, and—for those who can pay—it comes with many options.
Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2021
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Scientists have developed an environmentally-friendly way of boosting the production and heat stability of a natural blue coloring.
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2021
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Social vulnerabilities of coastal communities and their reliance on blue carbon ecosystem services may be improved by addressing three major factors, according to a study led by Hokkaido University researchers.
Ecology
Sep 3, 2021
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday said it was grounding space flights by Virgin Galactic while it investigates why the company's July mission carrying Richard Branson deviated from its planned trajectory.
Space Exploration
Sep 2, 2021
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New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that genes are capable of identifying and responding to coded information in light signals, as well as filtering out some signals entirely. The study shows how ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 31, 2021
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A team of chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, working with a group at Merck & Co. Inc. has developed a reaction that can be used to remove a single sulfur, nitrogen or oxygen atom from a six-membered ring ...
Blue Origin launched artwork painted on a capsule and a moon-landing navigation experiment into space Thursday, a month after sending founder Jeff Bezos on the company's first passenger flight.
Space Exploration
Aug 26, 2021
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Photoinduced charge transfers are an interesting electronic property of Prussian blue and some analogously structured compounds. A team of researchers has now been able to elucidate the ultrafast processes in the light-induced ...
Materials Science
Aug 20, 2021
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Oxygen-producing bacteria emerged a thousand millions years before the great oxygenation event approximately 2400 million years ago, scientists have found.
Evolution
Aug 18, 2021
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