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Astronauts experience these key changes in space that could impact their health, new research shows

(CNN) As humans explore worlds beyond Earth on longer missions in the future, it's crucial to understand how our bodies may react to a sustained lack of gravity and radiation exposure. The 2019 NASA Twins Study provided an all-encompassing look at the ...

Teacher's decades-old find on a Northern Ireland beach turns out to be the island's first-ever dinosaur discovery

(CNN) You never know what you might find while walking along the beach. People often come across coins, shells and trash, but a teacher in Northern Ireland made a discovery that will go down in history. In the 1980s, the late Roger Byrne, a schoolteacher ...

Curiosity rover spots signs of ancient megafloods on Mars

We already know that Gale Crater on Mars used to hold a lake or series of lakes a few billion years ago. Now, NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence for ancient giant floods that washed through the region as well. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail.

Scientists predicted a large sunspot. Now it's here

Last week, scientists from the National Solar Observatory predicted a large sunspot would emerge before Thanksgiving. Now the sunspot – AR2786 – is in view. Here's how they did it. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share. Telescopic image of the ...

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SLS: Nasa 'megarocket' assembly begins in Florida

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Nasa has started assembling the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a launch platform ahead of its maiden flight next year. The SLS is the giant rocket that will send US astronauts back to the Moon this decade - with the first crewed landing targeted for ...

A hint of new physics in polarized radiation from the early universe

Using Planck data from the cosmic microwave background radiation, an international team of researchers has observed a hint of new physics. The team developed a new method to measure the polarization angle of the ancient light by calibrating it with dust ...

Water-to-land transition in early tetrapods

The water-to-land transition is one of the most important and inspiring major transitions in vertebrate evolution. And the question of how and when tetrapods transitioned from water to land has long been a source of wonder and scientific debate. Early ideas ...

A microscope for everyone: Researchers develop open-source optical toolbox

The open-source 3D-printed cube can host self-designed inserts, electrical and optical components. The resulting modules can be combined to form complex optical instruments. This allows the smartphone to be transformed into a powerful microscope in no ...

Conscientiousness key to team success during space missions

NASA is working toward sending humans to Mars by 2030. If all goes according to plan, the flight crew's return trip to the red planet will take about two-and-half years. That's a long time to spend uninterrupted with co-workers. But imagine if the astronauts don't ...

Neutrinos yield first experimental evidence of catalyzed fusion dominant in many stars

An international team of about 100 scientists of the Borexino Collaboration, including particle physicist Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, report in Nature this week detection of neutrinos from the sun, directly revealing for the first time ...