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Rocket Lab aims to launch private Venus mission in 2023

There may be life in Venus' clouds, and Rocket Lab wants to help find it. The California-based spaceflight company, which gives small spacecraft dedicated rides to Earth orbit, aims to go interplanetary soon, with a robotic astrobiology mission to the second ...

This Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory

Scientific American

Scientific American

What does it feel like to be both alive and dead? That question irked and inspired Hungarian-American physicist Eugene Wigner in the 1960s. He was frustrated by the paradoxes arising from the vagaries of quantum mechanics—the theory governing the ...

SpaceX to launch dozens of Starlink satellites and 3 Planet SkySats Tuesday. Here's how to watch live.

A view of Planet's SkySats 19, 20 and 21 launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket alongside 58 Starlink satellites. Liftoff is set for Aug. 18, 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

NASA researchers track slowly splitting 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field

This stereoscopic visualization shows a simple model of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field partially shields the Earth from harmful charged particles emanating from the Sun. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. A small but evolving dent in ...

Mars rover Perseverance refines course toward Red Planet

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover just fired up its deep-space thrusters for the first time. Perseverance, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, refined its course toward the Red Planet with a trajectory-correction maneuver on Friday (Aug.

More Starlinks and SkySats ready for launch Tuesday from Cape Canaveral

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff at 10:31:16 a.m. EDT (1431:16 GMT) Tuesday from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket's first stage will be making its sixth flight, a record for SpaceX's fleet of reusable Falcon ...

Climate study looks at humans' exposure to extreme temperatures during 21st century

Denver is known for its relatively mild climate and its four distinct seasons. It's also known for its temperature fluctuations over the course of a day or even hours. But what does that mean for the city's residents—and for that matter, the rest of the inhabitants of ...

Ripple effects after slow-motion bubble collapse

Ripple effects forming on sheets of a bubble film photographed mid-collapse. Image credit: Oliver McRae/Boston University, Credit: Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/science.aba0593. A recent feature cover photo on Science portrayed a bubble in mid-collapse ...

Two-dimensional materials for ultrascaled field-effect transistors

With the increasing miniaturization of electronic components, researchers are struggling with undesirable side effects: In the case of nanometer-scale transistors made of conventional materials such as silicon, quantum effects occur that impair their ...

Nothing will stop Greenland's ice sheet from shrinking now

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing 500 gigatons of ice each year, and will continue to do so, even if global warming halted instantly. Shares. Comments (0). Icebergs near Greenland form from ice that has broken off--or calved--. (Image: © courtesy Michalea ...