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Scientists discover a flexible fabric that can be used to make a real-life superhero suit
It’s a lightweight fabric in nature, and it has been 3D-printed from nylon plastic polymers. It …
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Some climate-tech startups want you to believe AI tools can save the planet but it's not that simple
AI has the potential to capture quality data to understand your carbon footprint. But some view it …
Aaron Mok
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Here are the 20 US universities whose graduates can now move to the UK without a job offer
A new visa enables graduates from the best colleges in the US to apply to work in the UK without ge…
Stephen Jones
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NASA's Perseverance rover discovers organic chemicals on Mars
They found carbon-containing molecules not only in the interiors of abraded rocks that SHERLOC…
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NASA is hiring someone to help figure out how to get Mars rocks back to Earth - and the position pays at least $182,000
Formally, the job is director of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, which aims to bring scientis…
Holly Secon
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NASA Perseverance's rock sample to give insight into Mars' history
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, giving scientists insight into M…
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NASA scientists have to wear red-blue 3D glasses to pilot the Mars Curiosity rover because their advanced goggles don't work from home
The pilots of Curiosity normally rely on using special 3D goggles to look at the landscape around C…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Students are replicating the social experience of college by renting houses that are thousands of miles away from school
Virtual college classes mean off-campus houses look extremely different for some students this scho…
Monica Humphries
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NASA's Insight lander is revealing Mars to be far more shaky than we thought. It picked up about 450 quakes and 10,000 ground-bending whirlwinds.
Insight has made a few other surprising discoveries so far. It found that the magnetic field around…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA has pinpointed an area where astronauts could land on Mars. Ice is so accessible there that they could dig it up with a shovel.
Planning for a serious digging operation as part of any space mission requires heavy equipment, whi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA asked kids to name its new Mars rover, and the 9 finalists include Ingenuity and Fortitude. Now it's time to vote.
"Thousands of students have shared their ideas for a name that will do our rover and the team proud…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger
Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Lakes of methane on Saturn's moon Titan may be the craters of giant explosions, a new study shows
Near the moon's north pole, the data showed, a series of small lakes sport rims that tower hundreds…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch live as NASA engineers build an alien-hunting, nuclear-powered Mars rover that's slated to launch next year
The RTG is the part of the rover that generates energy. The device will be fueled by a rare, human-…
Dave Mosher
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The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life, NASA data reveals
Deep in Earth's oceans, seawater mixes with magma that bubbles up through cracks in the ocean floor…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A NASA scientist's incredible animation shows how dinosaurs roamed the Earth on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy
Our sun orbits the galaxy's center, completing its rotation every 250 million years or so. So Chris…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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We're likely to find alien life in the next decade, scientists say. Here's where NASA plans to look - in our solar system and beyond.
That's because the agency plans to dramatically ramp up its search for signs of extraterrestrial li…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The $20 billion self-driving startup Cruise is adding to its leadership team even as autonomous-vehicle companies are hitting the brakes during the pandemic
Regina Dugan, a veteran of DARPA, Google, and Facebook will be Cruise's first independent director …
Matthew DeBord
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is retiring after 16 years of incredible infrared imaging. It revealed nebulas and galaxies as we'd never seen before.
But as the telescope has floated in space, its systems have aged and battery life has diminished. T…
Holly Secon
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NASA can hear the 'haunting' sound of dust devils tearing across Mars with its new $830 million lander
"I think this is going to end up being the most-studied point on Mars," Bruce Banerdt, a planetary …