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	Science Daily update ⋅ February 25, 2020
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	Space.com Mars is a seismically active world, first results from NASA's InSight lander reveal Space.com Mars may be cold and dry, but it's far from dead. The first official science results from NASA's quake-hunting InSight Mars lander just came out, and they reveal a regularly roiled world. "We've finally, for the first time, established that Mars is a seismically active ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Hubble telescope test inspires changes to combat gender bias in some NASA programs Space.com Stars don't see gender, and now, NASA is working to not see it either when allocating telescope time to scientists, inspired by a successful experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope. That experiment tested the hypothesis that if proposals are evaluated ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post The weather helps disprove the flat Earth hypothesis Washington Post The Earth is round. It may seem like an obvious fact that we've understood since primary school, but for a body of "Flat Earthers," the concept of a globe-shaped earth is paramount to what they claim is the biggest conspiracy theory to ever exist. Their science ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Katherine Johnson, pioneering NASA mathematician of 'Hidden Figures' fame, dies at 101 Space.com Katherine Johnson, whose career making vital calculations for NASA was immortalized in the 2016 book and movie "Hidden Figures," has died at 101. Johnson joined what was then called the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1953 as a ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA The New York Times They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday at a retirement home in Newport News, Va., ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies ABC News Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. She was 101. Flag as irrelevant
	EarthSky Using radio waves to discover and study exoplanets EarthSky A new study from researchers in the Netherlands shows how scientists can detect exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars, and learn about their environments, from the radio waves generated by auroras on those worlds. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN A heat wave in Antarctica melted 20% of an island's snow in 9 days CNN (CNN) A nine-day heat wave scorched Antarctica's northern tip earlier this month. New NASA images reveal that nearly a quarter of an Antarctic island's snow cover melted in that time -- an increasingly common symptom of the climate crisis. The images show ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Astra's 1st flight for DARPA Launch Challenge delayed by bad weather Space.com A California spaceflight company's quest to win a $12 million launch competition won't kick off tomorrow (Feb. 25) after all. Astra, a startup based in the Bay Area, had aimed to loft its first orbital mission tomorrow from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska, ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies NPR Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and an unsung hero of the space agency's early days, died Monday. She calculated the flight path for America's first space mission and the first moon landing, and was among ... Flag as irrelevant
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