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NASA heading back to Mars

NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home Briony Horgan, Purdue University and Melissa Rice, Western Washington University This...

Building a mirror for one of the world’s biggest telescopes

Buddy Martin, University of Arizona and Dae Wook Kim, University of Arizona When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae...

The First Pinpoint Landing on the Moon

Apollo 12: Fifty years ago, a passionate scientist's keen eye led to the first pinpoint landing on the Moon Timothy Swindle, University of Arizona When Apollo...

A new chemistry innovation could reduce air pollution.

A new chemistry innovation could reduce smog, acid-rain and asthma-inducing pollution Anton Alexandrovich Toutov, Virginia Commonwealth University If humans created an emissions hall of shame, which...

5 milestones that created the internet

50 years after the first network message This SDS Sigma 7 computer sent the first message over the predecessor of the internet in 1969. Andrew 'FastLizard4'...

A new type of vaccine using RNA could help defeat COVID-19

Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University and Robert Carnahan, Vanderbilt University A century ago, on July 26, 1916, a viral disease swept through New York. Within 24...
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New Satellite Will Track Rising Oceans Into 2030

This article is re-printed from an article on NASA.gov Earth's climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects of...

How do lithium-ion batteries work?

Lithium-ion batteries power lots of different kinds of devices. Transport Canada Robert Masse, University of Washington Three researchers who developed a technology at the heart of the...
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Using Genetic Decoding to Trace Covids Spread

The coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it's been Bert Ely, University of South Carolina and Taylor Carter, University...

How the electric power system we take for granted came to...

Buildings at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, illuminated by George Westinghouse’s alternating current. Field Museum Library/Wikipedia, CC BY Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University Many experts...

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