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New work reveals the ‘quantumness’ of gravity

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

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NASA’s Solar Sail Makes First Contact From Space Before Stretching Its Enormous Wings

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

An artist’s concept of the Solar Sail mission in orbit. Illustration: NASA Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat ...

New Research Reveals That Dinosaurs Were Not As Smart as We Thought

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Image of a T. rex skeletal cast at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany. T. rex lived at the end of the Cretaceous (about ...

New model may explain strange behavior on a cosmic scale

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

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New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

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Private Spacecraft Snaps First Rendezvous Photo of Space Debris

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Cue the anti-space litter campaigns. A satellite captured a historic photo of space debris during a new mission. “Pics or it didn’t ...

Why NASA wants Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Dragon for astronaut missions

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

HOUSTON — The United States’ second private crew-carrying spacecraft is finally ready to bear astronauts. NASA and Boeing teams recently cleared for ...

Scientists Gear Up for Solar Storms at Mars

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This coronal mass ejection, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, erupted on the Sun on August 31, 2012, traveling over 900 miles ...

Astronomers Think They’ve Found Examples of the First Stars in the Universe

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

When the first stars in the Universe formed, the only material available was primordial hydrogen and helium from the Big Bang. Astronomers ...

Laser Excites Atomic Nuclei For Precision Measurement : ScienceAlert

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Though we cannot see it, we live in a quantized world where the light that illuminates our days is made up of ...