Black holes aren’t stationary in space; in fact, they can be quite active in their movements. But because they are completely dark and can’t be observed directly, they’re not easy to study. Scientists have finally figured out the precise timing of a complicat…
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The US Air Forces mysterious space plane aims to break another record by again spending longer than two years in low-Earth orbit.
The X-37B is set to take off on May 16 and is not expected to return home until mid-2022 the previous record was a 780-day missi…
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Artist’s impression of one big space rock.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
An asteroid the size of a mountain cruised through our cosmic neighborhood Wednesday and humanity survived, because even a close pass in space terms isn’t actually that close.
In fact, asteroid …
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Lets talk about houseplants. Water them when the soil is dry. Dont put them in front of air conditioners or heating units. Know how much sun each one wants. There, youve got almost everything you need to know.
The truth is, most houseplants sold at shops or …
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Researchers engineer two copies of an antibody produced by llamas which bind to coronavirus proteins
Antibodies from an unusual animal could help scientists develop a treatment against the novel coronavirus, a new study suggests.
Researchers found two copies of an immune protein produced by llamas can create a new antibody that binds tightly to part of the …
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President Trump issued an executive order last month allowing US companies to mine the moon, but—is this really possible? Sure enough, Popular Mechanics lays out enough of the science, current projects, and history of moon-mining enthusiasm to make …
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New tail bones, uncovered in Morocco, suggest Spinosaurus was a great swimmer.
Davide Bonadonna
Was Spinosaurus, a menacing monster of a dinosaur with the head of a crocodile and a huge spiky sail running down its back, able to swim?
It’s a contentious que…
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A new study has found that the impacts of deep sea mining are still felt a quarter of a century later.
As the need for metals like copper, nickel, and cobalt mount, some have looked to harvest them from a vast field of metal-rich rocks called polymetallic n…
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One of the deepest mysteries in physics, known as the Hubble tension, could be explained by a long-since vanished form of dark matter.
The Hubble tension, as Live Science has previously reported, refers to a growing contradiction in physics: The universe is…
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Project Manager Mimi Aung answers #AskNASA questions about NASA’s newly named Mars helicopter — Ingenuity. Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet. The helicopter is traveling to Mars attached to the belly of NASA’s P…
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