A new formula for white paint has given us the whitest white yet. It reflects a staggering 98.1 percent of all light that hits it, staying significantly cooler than room temperature, even …
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SpaceX and NASA are officially “set” to proceed with the launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station next week, with the completion of a critical flight readiness review on Thursday …
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Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous replay fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon that astronomers cannot yet explain. Astronomers first saw this fast radio burst, known as FRB20180916B, …
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For the first time, scientists have estimated how many Tyrannosaurus rex, the so-called king of the dinosaurs, ever roamed the Earth. Because it is important: The number is staggering: 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus …
Read More »NASA’s Insight Mars Lander is ‘in crisis’ and has entered emergency hibernation
NASA’s $ 800 million Mars lander is in an energy crisis. InSight, which landed on a Martian plain called Elysium Planitia in 2018, detected more than 500 earthquakes on Mars, felt more …
Read More »A buried chunk of alien world could be behind a weak point in Earth’s magnetic field
Earth’s geomagnetic armor has a crack and is growing. A weak point in our planet’s magnetic field, located over the southern Atlantic Ocean, has grown in size over the past two centuries …
Read More »NASA satellite data could detect volcanic disturbances years before eruptions
New research methods using satellite data can detect volcanic eruptions years in advance. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the …
Read More »Giant Flying Pterosaurs Had Neck Longer Than Giraffe, Experts Say | Dinosaurs
Pterosaurs, one of the first and largest vertebrates to learn to fly, have often been viewed as the genius cousins of the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex. Now scientists have discovered the 100-million-year-old secret …
Read More »NASA’s InSight Mars lander is hibernating, trying not to die
NASA’s $ 800 million Mars lander is in an energy crisis. InSight, which landed on a Martian plain called Elysium Planitia in 2018, detected more than 500 earthquakes on Mars, felt more …
Read More »UAE partners with Japanese company iSpace to launch lunar rover in 2022
The UAE has announced a lunar mission that will use an unusually small vehicle, with only four wheels and weighing 10 kilograms (22 pounds). The rover, to be built in Dubai, is …
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