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NASA Science, Cargo Launch Aboard Northrop Grumman CRS-24 – NASA
NASA is sending more science, technology demonstrations, and crew supplies to the International Space Station following the successful launch of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft, carrying approximately...
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NASA Welcomes Record-Setting Artemis II Moonfarers Back to Earth – NASA
The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian...
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Indoor Testing Facilities available at the NASA Unmanned Autonomy Research Complex (NUARC) – NASA
A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research. The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API. A companion WindProbe is also available for quick...
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Seeing and imagining activate some of the same brain cells
The ability to conjure pictures in the mind’s eye enables us to remember the past and imagine the future. It also allows us to plan, navigate and create works of art. In a study published April 9 in Science,...
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Last month was hottest March on record for continental U.S. — by most for any month ever, federal data shows
Washington — March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or...
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Snow in the Shadow of the Andes – NASA Science
On the eastern, arid side of the Andes, the plains of southern Argentina stretch from the mountains to the Atlantic coast. The landscape often appears dry and brown, interrupted by colorful glacier-fed lakes, but a storm in early April...
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Hawaii is turning ocean plastic into roads to fight pollution
In Hawaii, researchers are literally paving the roads with good intentions. They have come up with an innovative method for putting the island’s plastic pollution to work, covering its roads with asphalt mixed with plastic waste and old fishing...
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The ‘oldest fossil octopus’ is probably another animal
The oldest fossil octopus isn’t an octopus at all.That’s the conclusion from new research on a perplexing fossil previously thought to be the most ancient record of an octopus. The findings — published April 8 in Proceedings of the...
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Human echolocation works step by step
Navigating the world as a blind person sometimes involves using a cane, guide dog or wearable GPS system. For some, this toolkit includes echolocation. Producing tongue clicks and listening for echoes can be enough to gain information about nearby...
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Electrons in moiré crystals explore higher-dimensional quantum worlds
The electrons that power our society flow left and right through the circuitry in our electronics, back...