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WIRED

At Princeton University in the early 1970s, the celebrated theoretical physicist John Wheeler could be spotted in seminars or impromptu hallway discussions drawing a big “U.” The letter’s left tip represented the beginning of the universe, …

Florida Today

At liftoff, however, several of the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines failed to fire up as planned. Then came the more than minute-long tumble at roughly three minutes into flight, which kicked off just after the rocket’s Starship upper stage and Super Heavy …

The Washington Post

Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) is now open to citizen scientists. HARP uses data from five NASA satellites that launched in 2007 to help study auroras, which occur when solar particles run into Earth’s bubblelike magnetic field, or …

Tacoma News Tribune

It all has to do with grass in ancient Africa. TCC professor Kirsten Jenkins is a paleoanthropologist. She studies human and ape evolution through the fossil record. “Whenever you find a fossil, you …

Big Island Now

The ocean and atmosphere have been accumulating massive amounts of carbon dioxide over the past 200 years, as factories, automobiles, airplanes and more churn out the powerful greenhouse gas. Two articles published in Nature by …

IEEE Spectrum

The development of organoids has been made possible by two bioengineering breakthroughs: induced pluripotent stem cells and 3D cell culturing techniques. Taking the existing field of neuromorphic computing, where the structure of neurons and the …

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s Starship rocket, nearly 40 stories tall, climbs off its launch pad at the Starbase launch site in South Texas. Credit: Trevor Mahlmann / Spaceflight Now. After years of anticipation, SpaceX launched the first test flight of its full-scale …

TheStreet

Starship, the reusable rocket with which Musk promised to conquer Mars and to revisit the Moon, exploded during its first orbital flight on Apr. 20. This explosion was a real shock for the aerospace industry …

CNN Travel

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. CNN —. This week, the moon and the sun briefly aligned over a remote patch of …

The Register

NASA’s defunct RHESSI solar flare satellite plummeted into Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Sahara desert this week, the Department of Defense confirmed. Launched in February, 2002, the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Image …