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Scientists around the world are worried about a Trump team proposal to axe NASA's 58-year mission to study the Earth
"It's kind of like if you have a car. Want to fix it? Go to a mechanic [like NOAA]. If you want to …
Rafi Letzter
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People are tweeting #ThanksNASA after a Trump adviser suggested he'd axe its climate change research arm
The researchers who started and spread the hashtag have not called out any political figures, or ma…
Rafi Letzter
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AI bots are replacing Gen Z influencers. Maybe that's a good thing.
Sorry, Gen Z. The influencer market is getting saturated — and now AI influencers are picking…
Clem De Pressigny
3 mins read
5 of the wildest experiments tardigrades have survived in the name of science
The extremely hardy (and cute) tardigrades thrive in harsh environments ill-suited for most life, i…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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I build robots for NASA. I face avalanches, poisonous gases, and even live volcanoes to test my inventions — it's dangerous, but I love it.
Kalind Carpenter dreamed of being an astronaut as a kid and now gets to work on robots that will be…
Claire Turrell
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AI aids the megatrend of electrification of everything which can reduce GHGs
In March, in Antarctica, an ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed due to record high temper…
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A fragment of a mysterious 8th continent is hiding under New Zealand - and it's twice as old as scientists thought
Recent research suggests chunks of Zealandia, an eighth continent that disappeared under the Pacifi…
Aylin Woodward
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The heavy-duty ship the US needs to protect its thawing border with Russia 'is just falling apart,' captain says
Polar Star can still get the job done, but the 45-year-old ship is "definitely showing its age," it…
Christopher Woody
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Scientists detected a set of salty lakes on Mars, hidden below the glaciers of its south pole
NASA's Perseverance rover is set to search for signs of ancient Martian life that could have migrat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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'Like a perpetual car crash': The captain of the US's only working icebreaker describes a 'treacherous' trip north
"In the summer, the ice is a little bit softer," Capt. William Woitrya told Insider. "This year [it…
Christopher Woody
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As US tries to close 'icebreaker gap' with Russia, its only working icebreaker is making a rare trip north
As the Arctic opens up, the US is worried about an "icebreaker gap" with Russia, but experts say th…
Christopher Woody
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The Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker has been fighting engine failure and flooding in the frigid Antarctic
McMurdo Station, opened in 1955, is one of three stations operated year-round by the National Scien…
Christopher Woody
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Far more people are threatened by rising seas than scientists realized, a study shows: 'The magnitude of the numbers speaks for itself'
In the 20th century, the average global sea level has already risen 6 inches due to warming waters …
Aylin Woodward
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SpaceX just unleashed its first 60 Starlink high-speed internet satellites and recorded a 'weird' video of the maneuver
SpaceX live-broadcasted the inaugural Starlink mission, which launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at …
Dave Mosher
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A huge crack in a 1,000-foot-thick Antarctic ice block has taken an alarming turn
In November 2016, a team of scientists in NASA's Operation IceBridge survey flew over the rift and …
Dave Mosher
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Great-power competition is growing in the Arctic, but lawmakers want to cut funding for the US's next icebreaker
In a letter addressed to Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen and Rep. Kevin…
Christopher Woody
6 mins read
A giant crack in Antarctic ice is 'days or weeks' from breaking off a Delaware-sized iceberg
"Rifting of this magnitude doesn't happen so often, so we don't often get a chance to study it up c…
Dave Mosher
5 mins read
A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris
In a collision, the satellites would have exploded into a cloud of dangerous, high-speed debris — a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronauts may one day use this tube to eat, drink, breathe, and recycle poop on the moon or Mars - here's how it works
"The idea was just, 'Ok, show us how much food you can generate and water you can harvest and oxyge…
Dave Mosher,Skye Gould
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A NASA rocket blasted colorful clouds into space - here's what they looked like
The magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet is vital to life, since it deflects the sun's constan…