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The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: April–June 2025 – NASA Science
NASA’s Earth science missions have continued to demonstrate remarkable adaptability and innovation, balancing the legacy of long-standing satellites with the momentum of cutting-edge new technologies. The Terra platform, the first of three Earth Observing System flagship missions, has been...
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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
Art restoration takes steady hands and a discerning eye. For centuries, conservators have restored paintings by identifying...
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Melding data, systems, and society
Research that crosses the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines, and boundaries between academia, industry, and government, is...
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A 43,000-year-old Neandertal fingerprint has been found in Spain
In a rugged landscape in central Spain, archaeologists have discovered a unique granite cobblestone marked with a red ochre dot that preserves the mark of a Neandertal fingerprint. Dating back approximately 43,000 years, it could be the oldest and...
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Universal nanosensor unlocks the secrets to plant growth
Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group within the Singapore-MIT Alliance...
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UK proposes wider ban on destructive ocean bottom trawling
A ban on a "destructive" type of fishing that drags large nets along the seafloor could be extended across English waters, the government has said.The proposal would expand the ban on bottom trawling from 18,000km2 to 48,000km2 (around 18,500...
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Ocean damage ‘unspeakably awful’, Attenborough tells William
Esme StallardClimate and science correspondentJustin RowlattClimate editor"Coral reefs, for the past 20 years, have been subject to mass bleaching and mass mortality and that is due to extreme temperatures," said Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, senior research scientist at Laboratoire d'Océanographie...
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Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award – NASA
In May 2025, Dr. Natasha Schatzman, aerospace engineer in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames Research Center, received the inaugural Alex M. Stoll Award from the Vertical Flight Society (VFS). This award honors a professional in the field of...
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Auburn Team Wins 2025 NASA Moon and Mars Design Competition – NASA
A team from Auburn University took top honors in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition Forum, where undergraduate and graduate teams competed to develop new concepts for operating on the Moon, Mars and beyond. Auburn’s project,...
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Watch: Large fire breaks out at motorcycle parking lot in China
A large fire broke out at a motorcycle parking lot in Chongqing, southwest China on Wednesday. Footage shows flames...