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Boeing, NASA may have found ‘root cause’ of Starliner spacecraft’s issues, but astronauts are still in limbo
After weeks of testing, NASA and Boeing officials say they better understand the issues plaguing the Starliner spacecraft, but still aren’t ready to name a return date.
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NASA says no return date yet for astronauts and troubled Boeing capsule at space station
Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule, officials said Thursday. Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit the orbiting lab for about a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing's new Starliner capsule prompted NASA and Boeing to keep them up longer. NASA’s commercial crew program manager S
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Hens blush when excited or scared, study finds
Blushing was once thought to be the “most peculiar and most human of all expressions,” as Charles Darwin put it, but a new study has found that hens share this peculiarity and can also express their fear or excitement in this way.
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Italian archaeologists make stunning underwater discovery
The discovery includes "thousands of marble slabs" in "hundreds of different shapes" found in a submerged ancient city.
2 min read - ScienceSpace
ISS scientists make headway in cancer research: 'We're NASA, we do Moonshots'
NASA's Cancer Moonshot Initiative aims to harness microgravity conditions on the International Space Station to study the disease like never before.
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UN asks nations to better prepare, cool the vulnerable as 'extreme heat epidemic' breaks records
After three of Earth's hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” “If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it's that we're all increasingly feeling the heat,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday at a news conference where he highlighted that Monday was the hottest day on record, surpassing the mark set just a da
5 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Africa's demand for cooling systems is expanding. But regulating the industry is a struggle
A technician had recently helped him refill the air conditioner with gas, but he didn’t test for possible leaks. The industry is governed by regulations prohibiting the release of cooling gases into the air, for example by conducting leak tests after an appliance is fixed.
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A plan to replenish the Colorado River could mean dry alfalfa fields. And many farmers are for it
A plan to help shore up the depleted Colorado River by cutting off water to alfalfa fields in California's crop-rich Imperial Valley is finding support from the farmers who grow it. The Imperial Irrigation District — the biggest user of water from the 1,450-mile (2,334-kilometer) river — has offered to pay farmers to shut off irrigation to forage crops including alfalfa for up to 60 days during the peak of the sweltering summer. While farmers often balk at the idea of letting fields lie fallow
4 min read - ScienceSpace
NASA, Boeing discussing Starliner astronaut mission today: Watch it live
NASA and Boeing will provide an update about the Starliner capsule's ongoing astronaut mission today (July 24), and you can watch it live.
2 min read - WorldThe Conversation
Extreme heat is breaking global records: Why this isn’t ‘just summer,’ and what climate change has to do with it
Global temperatures have averaged at least 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than preindustrial times for over a year. Two scientists explain what that means and what humanity can do.
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New images revealing the invisible universe celebrate a mission astronomers are scrambling to save
The Chandra X-ray Observatory marked its 25th anniversary with a release of never-before-seen images. But budget cuts may cause the observatory’s days to be numbered.
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Monday was the world's hottest day ever recorded — breaking Sunday's short-lived record
Sunday’s record as the hottest day ever recorded on Earth lasted only until Monday, as the planet broke records back-to-back this week.
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Jupiter's surreal clouds swirl in new van Gogh-esque view from NASA's Juno probe (photo)
Vivid clouds swirl across Jupiter's skies like colorful brushstrokes in a new photo from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
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Chinese astronauts simulate a debris-strike emergency on the Tiangong space station (video)
China's Shenzhou 18 mission staged an emergency drill recently to boost preparedness aboard the country's Tiangong space station.
2 min read - ScienceThe New York Times
A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure
A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging in children and dramatically shortens their lives. But, until recently, there was no path toward a highly effective treatment. Now, a small group of academics and government scientists, including Dr. Francis Collins, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, is working with no expectation of financial gain to halt progeria in its tracks with an innovative gene editing technique. If gene
7 min read - ScienceSpace
NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission: Live updates
NASA's Artemis 2 mission is returning astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972. See live mission updates here.
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Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that the solar system's tiniest planet, Mercury, hides a not-so-tiny secret: a 10-mile-thick mantle of diamond.
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Surprise Yellowstone geyser eruption highlights little known hazard at popular park
A surprise eruption of steam in a Yellowstone National Park geyser basin that sent people scrambling for safety as basketball-sized rocks flew overhead has highlighted a little-known hazard that scientists hope to be able to predict someday. The hydrothermal explosion on Tuesday in Biscuit Basin caused no injuries as dozens of people fled down the boardwalk before the wooden walkway was destroyed. The blast sent rocks, steam, water and dirt high into the air, according to a witness and a scien
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China's tiny 'Golden Toad' rover used AI to take an epic photo on the moon's far side (video)
A new video shows how a tiny rover on China's ambitious Chang'e 6 mission used AI to snap an epic shot on the far side of the moon.
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James Webb Space Telescope directly images its coldest exoplanet target yet
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated a super-Jupiter that is one of the coldest exoplanets ever directly imaged.
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Watch NASA's massive Artemis 2 rocket core stage arrive in Florida. Next stop: the moon (video, photos)
Artemis 2's core stage is near its launch site in Florida after sailing more than 900 miles from New Orleans. The rocket is scheduled to send NASA astronauts around the moon in 2025.
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Stunning ancient Roman mosaic found submerged in the sea off Naples
A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples.
2 min read - ScienceSpace
Earth-based telescope sees Boeing's Starliner approach the ISS in broad daylight (photo)
Infrared telescopes scanning the skies during the day watched as Boeing's first crewed Starliner spacecraft approached the International Space Station on June 6, 2024.
3 min read - USAssociated Press
William & Mary expands new climate-focused major, deepens coastal research with $100 million gift
The gift from Virginia philanthropist Jane Batten is the largest in the school's 331-year history and will establish the new Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences. It will help the school hire more faculty and deepen long-standing research in the Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic Ocean and beyond. The money also will help expand a new major in marine science for undergraduates.
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NASA telescope spots a super Jupiter that takes more than a century to go around its star
A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. The planet is roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with six times the mass. Its atmosphere is also rich in hydrogen like Jupiter’s.
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Floods and climate change blamed for surge in dengue in the Emirates as WHO warns of global spike
Since the United Arab Emirates witnessed its heaviest recorded rainfall ever three months ago, the desert nation has issued a multitude of warnings about dengue which, activists say, has surged and struck hardest among the vast populations of laborers. The tropical disease, spread by mosquitos, has witnessed a worldwide spike. The World Health Organization declared it an emergency in December as cases have globally increased tenfold over the last generation.
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UN cultural agency rejects plan to place Britain's Stonehenge on list of heritage sites in danger
The United Nations’ cultural agency rejected recommendations Wednesday to place Stonehenge on the list of endangered world heritage sites over concerns that Britain’s plans to build a nearby highway tunnel threaten the landscape around the prehistoric monument. UNESCO experts had recommended listing the stone circle on a plain in southern England as “in danger” over contentious plans to redevelop the highway. The highway project has been touted for decades but mired in legal challenges.
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Where do the moon's weird swirls come from? Scientists are trying to find out
Scientists are getting closer to explaining where bizarre lunar patterns that seem to have the involvement of magnetic fields come from.
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Komodo dragons have iron-tipped teeth, new study shows
Komodo dragons, the world’s largest species of lizard, have iron-tipped teeth that help them to rip their prey apart, according to new research.
3 min read - ScienceThe Conversation
What do genes have to do with psychology? They likely influence your behavior more than you realize
Human psychology is influenced by a complex network of genes and environmental factors. Studying how and when genes fail to cooperate could broaden our understanding of behavior.
6 min read - ScienceSpace
'We're pushing the limits:' Artemis 2 backup astronaut on 2025 round-the-moon mission (exclusive)
NASA's Artemis 2, a round-the-moon mission with astronauts, is scheduled for a 2025 liftoff. But as backup astronaut Andre Douglas notes, safety will come before schedules on the pioneering effort.
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Where to? Space: Tripadvisor publishes 1st off-Earth travel review
After helping millions of people plan their trips around the world, Tripadvisor is ready to do the same for those looking to travel beyond Earth. "Destination Space" is focused on space tourism.
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Monday breaks the record for the hottest day ever on Earth
Driven by oceans that won't cool down, an unseasonably warm Antarctica and worsening climate change, Earth's record hot streak dialed up this week, making Sunday, then Monday, the hottest days humans have measured, according to the European climate service. There's a good chance that when the data comes in for Tuesday, it will be three straight days of global record breaking heat, said Carlo Buontempo, the director of the European climate service Copernicus. Provisional satellite data publishe
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Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying and chemical fertilizers are in part to blame
When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. Like many other farmers, he blames acidifying fertilizers pushed in Kenya and other African countries in recent years. Kenya's government first introduced a fertilizer subsidy in 2008, making chemical fertilizers more accessible for smaller-scale farmers.
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in pesticides used on food, in homes and on pets, study finds
Toxic chemicals called PFAS are in pesticides sprayed on food and included in pet flea treatments and home bug repellants, a new study found.
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Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone sends up geyser of rock and steam
Visitors were left running for safety at Yellowstone National Park after a hydrothermal explosion sent rock and steam spewing into the air north of the Old Faithful geyser Tuesday, park officials said.
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Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth
Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average global temperature slightly exceeded the record set last July.
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Northern lights may be visible this week over several states from New York to Idaho
The northern lights may be visible Tuesday and Wednesday over several northern states, from New York to Idaho.
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Happy 25th anniversary, Chandra! NASA celebrates with 25 breathtaking images from flagship X-ray observatory
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the flagship Chandra X-ray observatory, NASA has released 25 never-before-seen images of iconic astronomical objects.
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Rapidly spinning dead stars could unveil dark matter secrets
"Cosmic lighthouses" comprised of rapidly spinning dead stars that blast out radiowaves could be used to shed new light on dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff."
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Colorado ramps up bird flu response, requires milk testing
Colorado began requiring dairies to test milk supplies for bird flu every week, the state's veterinarian told Reuters on Tuesday, as a federal team arrived to help investigate an escalating outbreak in cows that has spread to chickens and people. The state's new mandate aims to identify additional farms that could be infected and spread the disease to other dairies or poultry flocks, after the largest cluster of human cases to date in the United States occurred on a Colorado farm this month. B
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European climate agency: Last Sunday was the hottest day on Earth in all recorded history
On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday. Copernicus' preliminary data shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the record set just last year on July 6, 2023 by .01 degrees Celsius (.02 degrees Fahrenheit). Both Sunday's mark and last year's record obliterate the previous
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Surprise blast of rock, water and steam in Yellowstone sends dozens running for safety
As water and debris began to fall, they ran to keep clear, some yelling “Back up!" and “Holy cow!” People then turned to watch the spectacle under a huge cloud of steam. No injuries were reported, but the Biscuit Basin area was closed for visitor safety.
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June 2024 featured record-breaking heat and billion-dollar weather disasters, NOAA says
The U.S. just suffered its second-hottest June in 130 years. The month also featured four new billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
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21 'one-in-a-million' extreme dead stars found hiding around sun-like stars
Astronomers have detected 21 rare systems with widely separated neutron stars and sun-like stars. These binaries are "one in a million" and challenge dead star binary formation models.
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Aaron Rodgers confirms that Jets fined him, says trip to Egypt during minicamp was a scheduling snafu
Rodgers addressed the topic from Jets training camp. He says that he and head coach Robert Saleh are "on the same page."
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New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Just 28% of Americans say assassination attempt 'changed Trump for the better'
The results suggest that one of the most eventful periods in recent U.S. history has had little effect on Trump’s political standing.
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2024 Paris Olympics: U.S. gymnasts have a secret weapon that is not Simone Biles
To help provide comfort from both the famed cardboard beds of the Olympic Village and the Paris heat, team members are spending their nights on special mattress toppers.
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2024 NFL offseason power rankings countdown and season preview
Our Frank Schwab counts down his NFL power rankings, grades each team's offseason, solicits fantasy football advice and previews what the 2024 season might have in store for each team.
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Chipotle's California customers are spending less after the chain upped prices due to wage hike: CFO
Chipotle is not alone, as consumers in California push back against higher menu prices.
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