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Chinese rocket booster appears to crash near school during Gaofen 11 satellite launch

A Chinese Long March 4B rocket successfully launched a new Earth-watching satellite Monday (Sep. 7) but the booster's spent first stage narrowly missed a school when it fell back to Earth, witness videos show.

New quantum paradox throws the foundations of observed reality into question

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say. Shares. Comments (1). If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say. And if someone is there to hear it?

The 'mighty mice' that went to space could help protect astronauts' muscles and bones

CNN

CNN

(CNN) Genetically enhanced "mighty mice" that were part of a heath experiment on the International Space Station have shown that blocking a molecular signaling pathway can protect against muscle and bone density loss in the absence of gravity. The new ...

Leading scientists team up to create an at-home Astronomy course

Astronomer Jackie Faherty has teamed up with some of the world's leading scientists to create a new Astronomy course that people can take from the safety of their own homes. As the coronavirus pandemic persists in communities around the world, many are ...

Poetry in motion: Engineers analyze the fluid physics of movement in marine snails

In the world's oceans, billions of tiny marine snails (a form of plankton) commute daily between surface waters, where they feed at night, to depths of several hundred meters during the day to rest while avoiding predators. Marine snails play an important role in ...

ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 Reveals Rusting of Moon; Scientists Point at Earth's Atmosphere as Possible Cause

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

Enhanced map of hematite (red color) on Moon using a spheric projection (nearside only). (Shuai Li). At a Glance. The formation of rust can be attributed to the presence of two key elements—water and oxygen when in contact with iron. Through magnetotail ...

Reconfiguring microwave photonic filters without an external device

Researchers from EPFL's Photonics Systems Lab have come up with a way of reconfiguring microwave photonic filters without the need for an external device. This paves the way for more compact, environmentally friendly filters that will be more practical and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope Still Works Great—Except When It Doesn't

NPR

NPR

Mike Brown has been using the Hubble Space Telescope pretty consistently for most of the past three decades, since it launched in 1990. But recently he had an experience with Hubble that he never had before. Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, got ...

The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

Mars' Weird Mystery Moon Phobos –"Its Orbit May Unlock Billion-Year-Old Secrets"

The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

... ‌. Mars' 17-mile-wide, deeply-grooved moon, Phobos, has long been an object of mystery. with some scientists believing it to be an alien artifact –its dark faces resembling the primitive asteroids of the outer solar system–captured in the ancient past by Mars ...

NASA's Hubble Telescope Maps Giant Halo Surrounding Our Nearest Galaxy Andromeda

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SpaceCoastDaily.com

(NASA) – In a landmark study, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. Scientists were surprised to find that this ...