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NASA's Perseverance Just Had a Unique Problem While Digging Up Its First Mars Rock
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NASA's Perseverance Just Had a Unique Problem While Digging Up Its First Mars Rock
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NASA's Perseverance Just Had a Unique Problem While Digging Up Its First Mars Rock
NASA's Perseverance drilled into the surface of Mars but failed in its initial attempt to collect rock samples that would be picked up by future missions for analysis by scientists on Earth.
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Want to Spend a Year on Mars? This Epic New NASA Mission Is The Stuff of Dreams
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Want to Spend a Year on Mars? This Epic New NASA Mission Is The Stuff of Dreams
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Want to Spend a Year on Mars? This Epic New NASA Mission Is The Stuff of Dreams
NASA is recruiting applicants now for a year-long simulation of life on Mars, in which successful candidates will get a fully immersive sense of what it's like to be an astronaut stationed on the red planet for a remote, long-duration mission.
Animals Can Count and Use Zero. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?
Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero. It’s only the latest evidence of animals’ talents for numerical abstraction — which may still differ from our own grasp of numbers.
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Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero. It’s only the latest evidence of animals’ talents for numerical abstraction — which may still differ from our own grasp of numbers.
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Harvard astronomers calculated that if any transmissions from Earth were heard by an extraterrestrial technological civilization (ETC), it would take about 3000 years to get a reply.
https://www.universetoday.com/152112/well-have-to-wait-about-3000-years-for-a-reply-from-intelligent-civilizations/
https://www.universetoday.com/152112/well-have-to-wait-about-3000-years-for-a-reply-from-intelligent-civilizations/
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We'll Have to Wait About 3,000 Years for a Reply From Intelligent Civilizations
According to a new study by Harvard Professor Loeb and Amir Siraj, it would around 3000 years to hear a reply from an extraterrestrial civilization.
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Curiosity's Wandered The Same Giant Crater For 9 Years. It May Not Be What We Thought
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Curiosity's Wandered The Same Giant Crater For 9 Years. It May Not Be What We Thought
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Curiosity's Wandered The Same Giant Crater For 9 Years. It May Not Be What We Thought
When exploring alien worlds, it's important to know exactly what you're looking at – and a fresh analysis of rock samples taken from the Gale crater on Mars suggests this ancient grit might not be the lake sediment we thought it was.
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Scientists Discover How to Make Glass So Hard, It Can Even Scratch Diamond
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Scientists Discover How to Make Glass So Hard, It Can Even Scratch Diamond
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Scientists Discover How to Make Glass So Hard, It Can Even Scratch Diamond
Down on an atomic level, glass is a jumbled mess of atoms, which makes it easily prone to distortion and cracking. Now, chemists have discovered how to arrange the atoms within glass in such a way, the resulting material can even rival the strength
Top 10 most popular popscience articles of August.
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TOP 10 most popular articles in August, 1st part Trust in Science Can Ironically Lead to False Beliefs. Luckily, There's a Solution 2. These Shameless Birds Steal Hair From Live Predators Like It's No Big Deal 3. Experiment Reveals Why Getting More Sleep…
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Scientists Just Broke The Record For Calculating Pi, And Infinity Never Felt So Close
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Scientists Just Broke The Record For Calculating Pi, And Infinity Never Felt So Close
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Scientists Just Broke The Record For Calculating Pi, And Infinity Never Felt So Close
Swiss researchers said Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8 trillion figures using a supercomputer.
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The Incredible Brains of Cuttlefish Hold Memories That Never Seem to Fade
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The Incredible Brains of Cuttlefish Hold Memories That Never Seem to Fade
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The Incredible Brains of Cuttlefish Hold Memories That Never Seem to Fade
Can you remember what you had for dinner last Tuesday? Or on this day last year? It turns out that cuttlefish can, right up to old age – the first animal we've found that doesn't show signs of deterioration in memory function over time.
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The World's Most Famous Violins Were Treated With a Secret Chemical Mix, Study Shows
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The World's Most Famous Violins Were Treated With a Secret Chemical Mix, Study Shows
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The World's Most Famous Violins Were Treated With a Secret Chemical Mix, Study Shows
The antique violins made by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri in the 17th and 18th centuries are still very much sought after by modern-day musicians. Now, a new study reveals one of the hidden reasons why: the chemical treatments applied to
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Ancient Lava Reveals Earth's Magnetic Field Really Does Have a Cycle of 200M Years
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Ancient Lava Reveals Earth's Magnetic Field Really Does Have a Cycle of 200M Years
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Ancient Lava Reveals Earth's Magnetic Field Really Does Have a Cycle of 200M Years
We know that Earth's magnetic field is always shifting in its direction and its strength. Just how quickly these changes are happening is of great interest, considering this planetary feature keeps us all protected from violent cosmic radiation.
48 colors of the Moon, all photographed in a time span of 10 years.
Astrophotographer: Marcella Giulia Pace
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Turns Out It's Not Possible to Time Travel Just by Flying Really Fast
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Turns Out It's Not Possible to Time Travel Just by Flying Really Fast
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Turns Out It's Not Possible to Time Travel Just by Flying Really Fast
The possibility of time travel has excited many of us for hundreds of years, inspiring countless books and films. The ability to move not only through space but into the past or future would open a myriad of possibilities for humankind.
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Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons
n 1934, Eugene Wigner, a pioneer of quantum mechanics, theorized a strange kind of matter — a crystal made from electrons. The idea was simple; proving it wasn’t. Physicists tried many tricks over eight decades to nudge electrons into forming these so-called Wigner crystals, with limited success. In June, however, two independent groups of physicists reported in Nature the most direct experimental observations of Wigner crystals yet.
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n 1934, Eugene Wigner, a pioneer of quantum mechanics, theorized a strange kind of matter — a crystal made from electrons. The idea was simple; proving it wasn’t. Physicists tried many tricks over eight decades to nudge electrons into forming these so-called Wigner crystals, with limited success. In June, however, two independent groups of physicists reported in Nature the most direct experimental observations of Wigner crystals yet.
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Expert help needed to decode a rare piece of space history: the Lunokhod data tapes
Between 1970 and 1973, the Soviet space program achieved an amazing feat: landing and driving the first remote-controlled roving robots on the Moon called Lunokhod-1 and -2.
Their data and images have been published only partially and with great quality losses due to analog duplication, and a large fraction is thought to be lost.
It has now emerged that a set of tapes still exists.
Expert help is now needed to decode the images and data stored on these tapes in analog form.
https://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2021/08/expert-help-needed-to-decode-rare-piece.html
Between 1970 and 1973, the Soviet space program achieved an amazing feat: landing and driving the first remote-controlled roving robots on the Moon called Lunokhod-1 and -2.
Their data and images have been published only partially and with great quality losses due to analog duplication, and a large fraction is thought to be lost.
It has now emerged that a set of tapes still exists.
Expert help is now needed to decode the images and data stored on these tapes in analog form.
https://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2021/08/expert-help-needed-to-decode-rare-piece.html
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Expert help needed to decode a rare piece of space history: the Lunokhod data tapes
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Savage Megalodon Attack Millions of Years Ago Preserved in Ancient Tooth
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Savage Megalodon Attack Millions of Years Ago Preserved in Ancient Tooth
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Savage Megalodon Attack Millions of Years Ago Preserved in Ancient Tooth
Millions of years ago, an ancient sperm whale had a very, very bad day when a megatoothed shark – possibly the fearsome Otodus megalodon or its ancestor Otodus chubutensis, the largest predatory sharks that ever lived – viciously attacked
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Nuclear Fusion Revolution
It’s been hyped for decades. But scientific progress — and commercial competition — may soon produce a truly groundbreaking clean-energy technology.
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility, part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, announced that they had produced about 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power after blasting a hydrogen capsule with an array of laser beams. The burst lasted only a fraction of a second. But it offered significant new evidence that harnessing fusion energy could one day be feasible.
It’s been hyped for decades. But scientific progress — and commercial competition — may soon produce a truly groundbreaking clean-energy technology.
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility, part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, announced that they had produced about 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power after blasting a hydrogen capsule with an array of laser beams. The burst lasted only a fraction of a second. But it offered significant new evidence that harnessing fusion energy could one day be feasible.
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Newly Discovered Space Rock Loops The Sun Quicker Than Any Known Asteroid
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Newly Discovered Space Rock Loops The Sun Quicker Than Any Known Asteroid
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Newly Discovered Space Rock Loops The Sun Quicker Than Any Known Asteroid
A newly discovered asteroid has the second-shortest orbit that we know in the entire Solar System, pipped only by Mercury.
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More And More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving
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More And More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving
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More And More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving
Picturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as height, brain size, and skin complexion. Yet subtle shifts in our anatomy today demonstrate how unpredictable evolution can be.
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It Might Sound Fun, But a 'Fruitarian' Diet Is Actually Pretty Bad For You
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It Might Sound Fun, But a 'Fruitarian' Diet Is Actually Pretty Bad For You
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It Might Sound Fun, But a 'Fruitarian' Diet Is Actually Pretty Bad For You
Plant-based diets have become increasingly popular in recent years, both for health and ethical reasons.
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