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SpaceX's Crew-1 launch for NASA is carrying rock-eating microbes (and more weird science)

The first operational commercial crew mission will not only bring astronauts to the International Space Station but also a suite of unique science experiments for the crew to work on. Advertisement. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts on ...

NASA's next Mars rover will land in less than 100 days

NASA's newest Mars car will touch down on the Red Planet less than 100 days from now. The life-hunting Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30, is scheduled to land inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on the afternoon ...

Scientists spot a 'kilonova' flash so bright they can barely explain it

Scientists may have caught the blinding flash of two dense neutron stars colliding to form a strange magnetic star. The first sign of the massive event was a gamma-ray beacon that appeared in telescope data on May 22, prompting astronomers to assemble ...

Supernova explosions may have helped shape Earth's climate history

Star explosions may have played a greater role in Earth's climate history than scientists thought. Nearby supernovas have left a series of possible fingerprints in the tree-ring record here on Earth over the past 40,000 years, potentially disrupting our planet's ...

Do NASA's Lunar Exploration Rules Violate Space Law?

Scientific American

Scientific American

When they were first publicized by NASA earlier this year, NASA's Artemis Accords seemed harmless and trivial, almost self-evident. These tenets state, among other things, that emergency assistance will be rendered to foreign astronauts if they are ...

What to expect from SpaceX's Crew-1 launch to the space station

The Verge

The Verge

On the evening of November 14th, SpaceX plans to re-create the monumental feat it achieved earlier this year by launching another crew of astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission is a milestone for both SpaceX and NASA. It is the first ...

Officials expect up to 250000 day-trippers to drive near Cape for SpaceX astronaut launch

Florida Today

Florida Today

Emergency officials expect up to 250,000 out-of-county day-trippers to converge on viewing spots surrounding the Kennedy Space Center and along the beaches for Saturday's nighttime SpaceX crewed launch to the International Space Station. On top of that, ...

New approach to circuit compression could deliver real-world quantum computers years ahead of schedule

A major technical challenge for any practical, real-world quantum computer comes from the need for a large number of physical qubits to deal with errors that accumulate during computation. Such quantum error correction is resource-intensive and ...

Advanced atomic clock makes a better dark matter detector

JILA researchers have used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continual improvements in clocks have value beyond timekeeping. Older atomic clocks operating at microwave frequencies have ...

Smaller than ever—exploring the unusual properties of quantum-sized materials

Using dendrimers as molecular templates to produce diverse arrangements of metal ions, SNPs of about 1 nm in diameter with precise indium-to-tin ratios can be readily obtained. Credit: Tokyo Tech. The development of functional nanomaterials has been a ...