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NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy – NASA Science

The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution. The largest source of infrared light from the region closest to the black hole itself was thought...

Among chimpanzees, thrill-seeking peaks in toddlerhood

Toddlers are the daredevils of the chimp world.Chimps ages 2 to 5 are more likely than older chimps to free-fall from tree limbs in the forest canopies or leap wildly from branch to branch, researchers report January 7 in...

Susan Schuh: Supporting the Humans in Human Spaceflight  – NASA

Susan Schuh has dedicated her career to helping humans adapt to life beyond Earth.   As the Flight Crew Integration Operational Habitability (OpsHab) team lead in NASA’s Human Health and Performance Directorate at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Schuh leads efforts...

Himalayan winters are seeing less snowfall as more ice melts

Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment correspondentGetty ImagesMuch less winter snow is falling on the Himalayas, leaving the mountains bare and rocky in many parts of the region in a season when they should be snow-clad, meteorologists have said.They say most winters...

Shaken, Not Stirred: NASA’s StarBurst Aces Extreme Temperature Tests – NASA

Heated, cooled, shaken, and settled – NASA’s StarBurst instrument is several steps closer to being ready for launch. The small satellite is now awaiting instrument calibration following a successful integration in Canada and rigorous testing by engineers at the...

Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift – NASA

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious exploration vision is underway in...

What science says about the Trump administration’s new vaccine schedule

The Trump administration has made its largest imprint on the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule to date. Among the changes, the government schedule demotes shots once universally recommended into a designation called “shared clinical decision making.” The shift affects vaccines...

Hidden tree bark microbes munch on important climate gases

Trees are known for capturing carbon dioxide as they grow. But they also soak up other gases implicated in climate change through microbes in their bark.The tree bark microbes feast on hydrogen, methane and carbon monoxide, researchers report January...

Fossils found in cave shed light on where our species emerged, traced to when Earth’s magnetic field flipped

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study Wednesday.The oldest Homo sapien...

Meltwater Turns Iceberg A-23A Blue – NASA Science

The year that iceberg A-23A first broke away from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the movie Top Gun was setting box office records. Forty years later, the massive tabular berg—one of...
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