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NASA defense test kicked asteroid off course -- and changed its orbit around the sun
Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it -- a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.Their observations detailed in the paper showed that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in 2022 marked "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun," NASA said in a statement.
2 min readAFP
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Living at High Altitude May Have a Surprising Impact on Diabetes Risk
We never understood this – until now.
4 min readScienceAlert
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The universe is humming with ripples in spacetime: Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions
The catalog of gravitational waves "heard" by LIGO, KAGRA and Virgo has doubled with detections of spacetime ripples.
4 min readSpace
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Endangered Blue Whales Spotted Off the New England Coast for First Time in 3 Years
Aquarium scientists say sightings offer a rare glimpse into the movements of Atlantic blue whales
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Global warming trend has accelerated for first time
Researchers report they have detected a "statistically significant" increase in the pace of global warming on Earth over the last decade.
2 min readUnited Press International
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How Do You Lose Track of a Billion People? A Controversial Study Says Earth’s Population Is Way Off
While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas.
1 min readPopular Mechanics
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Purdue taps Manfra to lead its growing quantum initiatives
Purdue University has appointed Michael Manfra as its chief quantum officer, overseeing quantum initiatives and new degree programs.
Journal & Courier2 min read - Science
Look up Sunday after sunset as Venus and Saturn meet in evening twilight
Don't forget to look up this weekend as Venus and Saturn will appear to be right next to each other in the night sky.
1 min readLiveNow Fox
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Purdue creates program for domestic students to fast-track research degrees
Purdue University has launched "B2D7," a new engineering degree program to fast-track domestic students for advanced degrees.
Journal & Courier2 min read - Science
Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: 'The timing was extremely lucky'
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
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Heat waves that spark damaging droughts are happening more frequently, study finds
Heat waves that lead to sudden and damaging drought are spreading across the globe at an accelerating rate, highlighting how climate change-fueled extremes can build dangerously off each other, a new study found. Researchers from South Korea and Australia looked at compound extreme weather — a one-two punch of heat and drought — and found it increasing as the world warms. The average has likely gone even higher with 2024's record global heat and a 2025 that was nearly as warm, the study's authors said.
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Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds
An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday. It’s the first time that a celestial body’s orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA's Dart spacecraft slammed into was never a threat to Earth.
Associated Press3 min read - Science
Confirmed: Humanity Changed an Object's Orbit Around The Sun For The First Time
This is huge.
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In a first, NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun—by accident
A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.
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Scientists Are On the Cusp of Releasing the First Universal Vaccine
Microbial threats against human health are only growing. Luckily, researchers are developing new vaccines that are up to the challenge.
4 min read - Lifestyle
Scientists develop game-changing material that could solve major problem in construction: 'The production process is relatively simple'
"We need to test more."
3 min readThe Cool Down
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Rocket Lab Launches What's Likely a US Military Imaging Satellite
It's supposed to be a secret, but the Wiki page has already been updated.
2 min readExtreme Tech
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Archaeologists Taste a 150-Year-Old Bottle of Alcohol Found in Utah Mining Town
Researchers say the vintage spirit surprisingly “held up” after 150 years
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Japan's 1st HTV-X cargo craft leaves the International Space Station (photo)
Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay.
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How to Spot a Galaxy Made of Dark Matter
Three advanced telescopes were needed for spot a galaxy made up of more than 99% dark matter.
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2 'Lazarus' animals thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years found alive in New Guinea
Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists
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NASA wants to accelerate its Artemis missions to the moon. It will need to drop some big hardware to do it.
A big restructuring of NASA's plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.
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Ancient Mayan water filters stopped a lot—just not mercury poisoning
The civilization made the most of its technology, but everything has its limits.
4 min readPopular Science
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Ancient 'alien-like' skulls have been found on every continent but Antarctica. Anthropologists are starting to figure out why.
Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.
14 min readLive Science
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Are We Close to a Universal Vaccine for Respiratory Illnesses?
An experimental treatment protects mice from COVID-19, flu, bacteria, and more.
4 min readTime
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Getting away from it all: scans show nature heals frazzled brains
A mountain hike, a picnic in a park, stretching across the broad curve of an oak tree bough with a good book on a summer’s day: time spent in the wild has a “restorative” effect on relaxation and concentration, according to researchers behind "one of the most comprehensive reviews of how the brain responds to nature. " Based at McGill University in Canada and Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile, the team say their findings “add neuroscientific weight” to the long-held belief that people benefit fr
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Why scientists fear Emperor penguins' annual moult may be killing them
Each year the birds must stay on floating ice long enough to replace their weather-beaten feathers.
4 min readBBC
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Something Crashed Through a Man’s Living Room in Broad Daylight: A 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite.
The meteorite is roughly 4.56 billion years old, and experts believe it’s a chip off an asteroid from the belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Ag Innovation: Helping Farmers Prepare for What's Next
Farmers and ag industry professionals who participate in extension’s Planter University workshops learn how to evaluate planting performance and improve planter efficiency for greater success during the growing season and increased profits for their farming operations.
Farm Forum4 min read - Science
'City killer' asteroid will narrowly miss the moon, James Webb Telescope reveals
The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.
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Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea
The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.
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Cosmic Hawk spreads its wings| Space photo of the day for March 6, 2026
The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.
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'Striking' footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film before
Scientists in Italy captured a red fox entering a den as part of a project to understand wolf population dynamics in the country.
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Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests
"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another."
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When do we set clocks ahead? Spring forward for daylight saving 2026
Daylight savings 2026 begins this weekend. Will you lose or gain an hour of sleep? Here's when to set clocks ahead for the spring forward time change
Courier Post4 min read - Science
Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whether global warming is speeding up. A new study says it has the answer
Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for years. A new paper says it has the answer, and it’s not good news.
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Scientists Are Tracking Down the Exact Location of Human Consciousness
It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.
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A Dozen State Farm Bureaus Unite Over Labeling in SCOTUS Roundup Case
On March 2, a dozen state Farm Bureau organizations signed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in Monsanto v. Durnell. The post A dozen state Farm Bureaus unite over labeling in SCOTUS Roundup case appeared first on AGDAILY.
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AI can’t replace journalism – it runs on it
When artificial intelligence first came to be in the commercialised form we recognise today, its promise was immediately apparent – as was its threat. Industries and institutions began shifting at b...
Empire of the Kop3 min read - Science
2026 Full Moon calendar: When to see the Full Moon and phases
The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back toContinue reading "2026 Full Moon calendar: When to see the Full Moon and phases" The post 2026 Full Moon calendar: When to see the Full Moon and phases appeared first on Astronomy M
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A New Study May Confirm a Staggering Stat: 1 in 200 People Are Related to Genghis Khan
Remnants of the Y-chromosomal lineage attributed to Genghis Khan were found in a set of medieval mausoleums attributed to his eldest son, Jochi.
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Venus, Saturn to meet up in the night sky. When, how to see planets
Venus and Saturn are due up for a visually striking event known as a planetary conjunction. Here's everything to know about when and how to see it.
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Stunning Mars image highlights one of Red Planet's oldest cratered regions
Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.
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Scientists Invented an Entirely New Method of Refrigeration
This is super cool!
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Will humans and animals ever be able to converse? Here’s what science says.
In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is.
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AI writes entire microbial genome
The model was trained on 9 trillion DNA letters similar to how other AIs are trained on internet text.
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Rampant growth of satellite mega constellations could ruin the night sky
The clusters of satellites started small, but, like a viral outbreak, they grew almost without us noticing—and now we’re dealing with a pandemic. At the time, there were 7,500 active satellites orbiting Earth; more than half of them were SpaceX Starlink satellites that provided Internet service. In a little under three years, the number of just Starlink satellites in orbit has reached nearly 10,000.
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Rare Glass Blobs in Brazil Reveal an Ancient Impact, But Something Is Missing
Where's the crater?
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Michael Pollan explains why AI will never replicate human consciousness
Of all of the top contenders for the hardest problem in science, perhaps the most important to our lived experience is this: What, exactly, is consciousness? “The only tool we have with which to explore consciousness is consciousness itself,” says Michael Pollan, a celebrated science journalist and author of the new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness. This conundrum—and how to potentially solve it—guides Pollan’s examination of consciousness, highlighting both the science and the philosophical dilemma it poses.
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