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The World’s Most Powerful Water Flow Is Accelerating, and It Could Have Disastrous Consequences
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Scientists extracted a 5.3 million-year record of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by drilling sediment cores in the Earth’s most remote waters. Here, ...
1st astronaut launch of Boeing’s Starliner delayed to May 17 to replace ‘buzzing’ rocket valve
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The first-ever crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule has been delayed an additional week, thanks to a “buzzing” valve on its rocket ...
Sierra Space’s 1st Dream Chaser space plane aces key tests. Next stop: Florida launch site.
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The private Dream Chaser space plane is closer to reaching the final frontier than ever before, with a completed checklist from its ...
Quantum breakthrough sheds light on perplexing high-temperature superconductors
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NASA Licenses 3D-Printable Superalloy to Benefit US Economy
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NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on the threshold ...
Gargantuan sunspot 15-Earths wide erupts with another colossal X-class solar flare (video)
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AR3664 is no ordinary sunspot. The behemoth dark patch on the sun’s surface has ballooned in recent days, becoming one of the ...
NASA’s planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work • The Register
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NASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations. The ...
Exploding whale incident is still one of most bizarre spectacles ever recorded
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It’s been over 50 years since the original incident, but it’s still a topic of conversation today because of how bizarre it ...
I discovered hydrothermal vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic | Geothermal energy
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The mid-ocean ridge is where the Earth creates its outer skin. It’s called the boundary of creation. We knew there was life ...
New NASA Supercomputer Simulations Reveal What it Would be Like to Fall Into a Supermassive Black Hole
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Supermassive black holes are capable of violently devouring entire stars, and warping the very fabric of spacetime with their near incomprehensible mass ...
