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	Science Daily update ⋅ December 4, 2020
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	Space.com NASA will buy moon dirt from these 4 companies Space.com NASA just bought the rights to four batches of future moon samples for the low, low price of $25,001. Advertisement. The space agency inked deals with four companies that will collect lunar rock and dirt in the next few years and then sign the material over to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com A 'tsunami' for astrophysics: New Gaia data reveals the best map of our galaxy yet Space.com Astronomers were hit today (Dec. 3) with a huge wave of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Those researchers can now explore the best-yet map of the Milky Way, with detailed information on the positions, distances and motion ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Terrifying footage shows collapse of Arecibo Observatory's massive radio telescope Space.com It took 17 seconds for Arecibo Observatory's massive radio telescope to crumble. It will take much longer for the dust to settle. The iconic structure in Puerto Rico collapsed on Dec. 1 after cable failures in August and November made the telescope too delicate ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com China's Chang'e 5 probe lifts off from moon carrying lunar samples Space.com China has launched a small spacecraft from the surface of the moon in the critical next step in the ambitious Chang'e 5 mission to bring lunar samples to Earth. The small probe, which sat on top of the Chang'e 5 lander, lifted off from Oceanus Procellarum at ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine Direct pathogen-induced assembly of an NLR immune receptor complex to form a holoenzyme Science Magazine Nucleotide-binding/leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors detect pathogen effectors and trigger a plant's immune response. Two groups have now defined the structures of two NLRs that carry Toll-like interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains (TIR-NLRs) ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com The Milky Way and beyond: Scientists publish new data on nearly 2 billion stars Space.com As of today (Dec. 3), scientists have 1.8 billion local stars at their fingertips. That bounty is thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which has spent 6.5 years tracking stars in our Milky Way galaxy and beyond. Using the spacecraft's observations, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine Selection enhances protein evolvability by increasing mutational robustness and foldability Science Magazine Selection enhances mutation toleration. Mutations generate variability that is either neutral or subject to natural selection. Robustness is a measure of the ability to withstand deleterious mutational effects. Zheng et al. exposed Escherichia coli populations ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon) The New York Times The salmon were dying and nobody knew why. About 20 years ago, ambitious restoration projects had brought coho salmon back to urban creeks in the Seattle area. But after it rained, the fish would display strange behaviors: listing to one side, rolling over, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American Light-based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers Scientific American For the first time, a quantum computer made from photons—particles of light—has outperformed even the fastest classical supercomputers. Physicists led by Chao-Yang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Gaia 'discovery machine' updates star catalogue BBC News image captionGaia data can predict how stars will move across the sky in the next 400 thousand years. It's been described as the "ultimate book of the heavens" - a catalogue of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy assembled by Europe's Gaia Space Telescope. Flag as irrelevant
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