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China says it's open to sharing moon rocks as Chang'e 5 samples head to the lab

But U.S. space policy may bar American institutions from getting their hands on China's lunar samples. Shares. The Chang'e 5 return capsule at its landing site in Inner Mongolia, China, on Dec. 17, 2020. (Image credit: CASC). China has recovered the lunar ...

Was this mystery radio signal really from Proxima Centauri?

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Astronomers with Breakthrough Listen have detected a mysterious radio signal coming from the direction of the nearest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri. But is it really an alien signal or something more terrestrial? Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail.

Earthlings and astronauts chat away, via ham radio

The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio set can be had for a few hundred bucks. Perhaps that explains, in part, the appeal of having one of humankind's greatest scientific inventions communicate with Earth via technology ...

Santa Claus snags FAA license for commercial mission to space station

We'll apparently see one more big private spaceflight milestone before 2020 is done. In May, SpaceX became the first company ever to launch astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). That mission, a test flight known as Demo-2, sent NASA's Bob ...

Nanomaterial theory describes strongly correlated electrons in quantum dots

Osaka City University scientists have developed mathematical formulas to describe the current and fluctuations of strongly correlated electrons in quantum dots. Their theoretical predictions could soon be tested experimentally. Theoretical physicists ...

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NASA concerned about space's growing trash problem

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2020 has been a banner year for the space industry with a record number of 31 launches from Kennedy Space Center and five more in Virginia and California. With more stuff going to space, there's also more trash in space -- nearly 6,000 tons -- and it's ...

A dark storm on Neptune has reversed direction and scientists can't explain why

A dark storm on Neptune abruptly switched directions and started moving away from almost certain death, puzzling astronomers. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope first spotted the vortex in 2018. A year later, the storm began drifting southward toward ...

Researchers develop layered cobalt oxide with a record-setting thermoelectric figure of merit

The barium-cobalt oxide film (top right, approximately 1 cm2) being exposed to an open flame to generate voltage. Credit: Hiromichi Ohta. Waste heat is a highly promising source of renewable energy; however, the efficiency of using heat to generate energy ...

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UT Austin's 2020 Research Highlights

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AUSTIN, Texas — From leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic to providing a deeper understanding of the environment and universe we live in, scientific research at UT Austin made a lasting impact in 2020. These research breakthroughs affirm ...

Making jet fuel out of carbon dioxide

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. and one in Saudi Arabia has developed a way to produce jet fuel using carbon dioxide as a main ingredient. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group ...