How To Not Break A Mars Rover

The Mars Yard, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is one of the closest simulations of Mars that we’ve got. Admittedly, there’s a bit more atmosphere and gravity, but it’s the only way to test what might happen before sending commands to a rover that’s light-minutes away. More about the Mars...
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First look at images from Cassini’s dive between Saturn’s rings

We’re getting up close and personal with Saturn. These are the first images of the planet taken as the Cassini spacecraft made the first of its 22 planned dives between its rings. The first dive, which began on 26 April, takes Cassini closer than any spacecraft has been before. These Grand Finale...
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6 Scientific Benefits of Playing Videogames

The jury is in – video games are not the mind-melting devil creations that your parents made them out to be. Not only can gaming be a whole lot of fun, but recent research has revealed there’s also a range of scientific benefits to playing videogames – everything from increasing...
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Martian Soil Can Be Compressed Into Bricks Stronger Than Concrete

We can make bricks out of the red dirt on Mars, and they’ll be stronger than steel-reinforced concrete. Scientists from the University of California have made a brick-like rock from the closest thing to Martian soil – a simulant they created and named Mars-1a. Compressing the soil at high pressures forced...
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Joint mission to Europa could seek life under the ice

It will take more than six years to get there. But if long-anticipated signs of life are found on Europa, a newly-proposed joint American-European trek to the enigmatic moon of Jupiter will have been worth it. Called the Joint Europa Mission, the proposal was unveiled on 24 April by Michel Blanc...
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Infrared telescope spots mystery flare-ups in distant galaxies

Some things that go bump in the night can only be seen with heat vision. SPRITEs, a new class of astronomical explosion, may be showing us never-before-seen phases in the lives and deaths of stars. SPRITEs, short for “eSPecially Red Intermediate-luminosity Transient Events”, are undetectable in visible light. They were...
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Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with NROL-76

SpaceX have successfully launched a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A today at 11:15 UTC, 07:15 Local time, May 1st 2017. The rocket placed the first payload SpaceX have launched for the National Reconnaissance Office simply known as NROL-76 into orbit. Nothing more is...
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That Crazy Plan to Refreeze the Arctic Is Actually Getting a Trial Run in Switzerland

Back in February, physicists announced an outlandish plan to ’re-freeze’ the Arctic, by installing 10 million wind-powered pumps over the ice cap to replenish the dwindling sea ice. The idea was so wild, no one actually thought it would happen, but researchers in Switzerland have just launched a trial that...
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Here’s how an asteroid impact would kill you

It won’t be a tsunami. Nor an earthquake. Not even the crushing impact of the space rock. No, if an asteroid kills you, gusting winds and shock waves from falling and exploding space rocks will most likely be to blame. That’s one of the conclusions of a recent computer simulation...
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Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions

Signatures of extra dimensions that don’t normally affect the four dimensions we can observe could show up in the way they warp ripples in space-time Hidden dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves – and spotting such signatures of extra dimensions could help solve some of the...
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Electrode can tell you if a baby is really experiencing pain

When a baby’s crying, it can be difficult to know what’s wrong. Detecting brain signals could provide a more reliable way to tell if babies are in pain. “Babies can’t talk, so we need other ways to tell if they’re in pain,” says Rebeccah Slater, at the University of Oxford....
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NASA released its first incredible video of our closest look at Saturn yet

On April 26, the Cassini spacecraft flew closer to Saturn than ever before — between the gap that separates the planet from its rings.
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New CRISPR Technique Targets and Destroys Cancer’s Command Center

The past several months have been no less than astounding ones for the CRISPRgene-editing tool. In September, 2016, researchers in Germany discovered a way to use CRISPR to edit out cancer mutations. In November, Chinese researchers used CRISPR technology on a person for the first time. Then, in January if this year,...
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We’d Need 1.7 Earths to Make Our Consumption Sustainable

President Donald Trump has acted on his campaign promises to reverse Obama’s environmental policies and proposed a budget that would significantly slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s funding in an effort to take federal responsibility out of environmental regulations. More recently, White House officials have met to discuss whether the United...
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Researchers cure diabetes in mice without side effects

Researchers at the University of Texas Health San Antonio report they have essentially cured type 1 diabetes in laboratory mice by using gene transfer. The discovery increases the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin, which represents a potential cure for type 1 diabetes and could end insulin dependence in...
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Watch every SpaceX rocket landing attempt in 100 seconds.

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Watch drone footage of CERN's data centre

World class champion for drone freestyle driving and racing, Chad Nowak, came to CERN to record acrobatic footage. Watch this video to get a glimpse of the CERN data centre: the heart of CERN’s entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure.


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A Breakthrough in How We Treat Cancer Is on The Horizon

There’s been a push in the past few years to use genetic information to guide the treatment decisions of cancer patients. It’s something former President Barack Obama started tackling with his 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative. The excitement is logical: to treat cancer, it makes sense to have as much information as possible....
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