As the streets of San Francisco emptied out in the first months of the pandemic, the city’s male birds began singing more softly and improving their vocal range, making them “sexier” to females, acco…
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Blue Origin, the aerospace manufacturer backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has announced it will make its thirteenth trip to space using a reusable New Shepard rocket for a record-breaking seventh time…
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The International Space Station has been leaking for more than a year. 
While the station is perpetually losing some air, officials first noticed an increase in that airflow last September. At the t…
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The Netflix docuseries, “Challenger: The Final Flight,” tells the tragic story of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
On January 28, 1986, only 73 seconds into its flight, the shuttle exploded an…
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Scientists are learning important new things about the first-ever directly imaged black hole, including behaviors consistent with Einsteinian theory, but its also showing an unexpected feature in the…
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Through a one-of-a-kind experiment at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, nuclear physicists have precisely measured the weak interaction between protons and neutrons. The resul…
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised and demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance of communications networks while enabl…
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Birds like this homing pigeon may have the necessary neural anatomy for thinking.
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By Virginia MorellSep. 24, 2020 , 3:50 PM
Never before has bird brain been such a com…
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Gold miners stumbled upon a massive meteorite crater in Western Australia’s Outback that was created some 100-million-years-ago.
Using electromagnetic surveys, researchers were able to create images…
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From the robotic arms of the Shuttle era and the International Space Station to synthetic aperture radar programs and satellites studying critical elements of Earths changing climate to telecommunica…
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