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WIRED

Across the Northern Hemisphere, August will see beautiful displays of meteors. Here’s everything you need to know to enjoy them. Image may contain Nature …

Space.com

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Sunday (Aug. 4), continuing a busy stretch for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday …

Mashable

Folks, have you thanked the moon lately? The large, cratered orb — weighing in at some 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds — serves us greatly. Its potent gravity stabilizes Earth’s wobble, so we don’t spin chaotically over time (like on Mars), …

NBC Montana

The study will focus on how molecules fold into specific shapes and aims to force artificial molecules to coil into double or triple helixes. The grant will employ two UM graduate students and two undergraduate researchers …

AZCentral.com

Instead, the August full moon will be a seasonal blue moon, which occurs when there are four full moons in a single astronomical season, instead of the usual three.

WESH Orlando

The rocket was rolled out to Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday, August 2. This will be the 21st mission for of an expendable Cygnus cargo spacecraft from Northrop Grumman …

Times of India

In the case of the Higgs field, a phase transition would result in the creation of low-energy bubbles of space, each with its own unique set of physical laws. Within these bubbles, “the mass of electrons would suddenly change, and so would its interactions …

The Guardian

And for a while at least, it looked like it had been successful. The majestic June launch of the much-delayed and over-budget Starliner capsule from Florida, ferrying two Nasa astronauts to the International Space Station, offered a glimpse of a bright new …

ABC News

“And being a scientist, I said, that’s really strange.” Professor Stickgold is a sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School, with an interest in dreams and memories. When this happened in the …

Texas Public Radio

NASA has selected a private company to deorbit the space station when it’s finished its mission. On this week’s edition of Weekend Insight, TPR’s Jerry Clayton spoke with space expert Chris Combs, The Dee Howard endowed Associate Professor in aerodynamics …