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NASA: Stuck Boeing Starliner astronauts will return in 2025 with SpaceX

NASA: Stuck Boeing Starliner astronauts will return in 2025 with SpaceX

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s ...

Creature found in lake of cyanide can unlock animal origin secrets

Creature found in lake of cyanide can unlock animal origin secrets

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Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered an unusual creature in Eastern Sierra Nevada’s Mono Lake. This organism ...

Test of a prototype quantum internet runs under New York City for half a month

Test of a prototype quantum internet runs under New York City for half a month

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CAPTION: Map of the GothamQ network under New York City boroughs. Credit: Physics Magazine via APS To introduce quantum networks ...

Chemists succeed in upscaling a common reagent for industrial level applications

Chemists succeed in upscaling a common reagent for industrial level applications

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Different stages of a chemical reaction with the samarium diiodide reagent. The flask on the left contains a yellow, inactive ...

Scientific fraud solutions: Should research misconduct be illegal?

Scientific fraud solutions: Should research misconduct be illegal?

Debi Johnson

You probably haven’t heard of cardiologist Don Poldermans, but experts who study scientific misconduct believe that thousands of people may ...

A mechanism that transfers energy from nitrogen to argon enables bidirectional cascaded lasing in atmospheric air

A mechanism that transfers energy from nitrogen to argon enables bidirectional cascaded lasing in atmospheric air

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Schematic of bidirectional cascaded air lasing through photon exchange from nitrogen to argon. Credit: Zan Nie and Chan Joshi. To ...

Cooper pairs display wave-like distribution in Kagome metals

Cooper pairs display wave-like distribution in Kagome metals

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The illustration highlights the Kagome pattern which, named after a Japanese basket weaving motif, appears like an endless series of ...

A ‘Speckling of Stars’ At the Edge of the Milky Way Is Still Puzzling Astronomers

A ‘Speckling of Stars’ At the Edge of the Milky Way Is Still Puzzling Astronomers

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Leo A lacks galactic glamor. NASA’s newly-published image of this dwarf galaxy is missing the Milky Way’s pizzazz, and Andromeda’s ...

Researchers identify effective materials for protecting astronauts from harmful cosmic radiation on Mars

Researchers identify effective materials for protecting astronauts from harmful cosmic radiation on Mars

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Visualization of the rays’ trajectories originating from a pencil beam with a small beam angle. Credit: The European Physical Journal ...

Professor proposes how a black hole in orbit around a planet could be a sign of an advanced civilization

Professor proposes how a black hole in orbit around a planet could be a sign of an advanced civilization

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Ray traced shadow of a spinning and charged black hole. Credit: Simon Tyran, CC BY-SA 4.0 In 1971, English mathematical ...