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⋅ August 22, 2024
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Space.com

The moon was once covered by an ocean of molten rock, data from India’s space mission suggests
Space.com
Pragyan’s measurements found that the particular mix of chemical elements in the lunar soil (or regolith) surrounding the lander was relatively uniform. This regolith was primarily made up of a white rock type called ferroan anorthosite.
Space.com

Gravitational waves hint at a ‘supercool’ secret about the Big Bang
Space.com
In 2023, physicists were awed to find nearly imperceptible ripples in the fabric of space and time — united as an entity known as spacetime. They were ripples discovered in association with collections of rapidly spinning neutron stars called “pulsar …
Space.com

SpaceX delays launch of Polaris Dawn private spacewalk mission to Aug. 27
Space.com
Dawn serves as the first of three planned launches for Isaacman’s Polaris Program, all of which aim to further the private exploration of space and expand the scientific research of life in microgravity, as well as continuing to raise money for Saint Jude …
BBC News

The Earth’s deepest living organisms may hold clues to alien life on Mars
BBC News
To understand the life that might survive deep below Mars’ surface, we can look to some of the deepest, and oldest, forms of living organism on our own planet. Mars isn’t just the red planet: it’s also a wet planet. On 12 August, US researchers …
Smithsonian

How Did Ice Age Humans Kill Huge Animals Like Mammoths? Probably Not by Throwing Spears, Study Finds
Smithsonian
New research theorizes that hunters used pikes planted in the ground—with their sharp tips pointing upward—to impale approaching wildlife using the creature’s own weight and momentum. Sarah Kuta. Daily Correspondent. August 22, 2024 3:35 p.m. …
Scientific American

How the Search for Aliens Is Redefining Life in the Golden Age of Astrobiology
Scientific American
The search for extraterrestrial life has profound physical, mental and spiritual implications, says Nathalie Cabrol in The Secret Life of the Universe—and it belongs to everyone. By Zane Wolf. Illustration of a radio telescope on Earth viewing the …
Phys.Org

Pong prodigy: Hydrogel material shows unexpected learning abilities
Phys.Org
In a study published22 August in Cell Reports Physical Science, a team led by Dr. Yoshikatsu Hayashi demonstrated that a simple hydrogel—a type of soft, flexible material—can learn to play the simple 1970s computer game “Pong.” The hydrogel, interfaced …
Space.com

An 8000-ton problem: How to combat space debris
Space.com
Some speculate that there are over 8,000 metric tons of debris floating around, including non-functional satellites, discarded rocket parts, and broken pieces of spacecraft. The working satellites in our LEO are …
oregonlive.com

What a new study finds about potential collapse of ‘Doomsday Glacier’
oregonlive.com
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname the “ · But is that kind of rapid collapse really as likely as feared? · Polar scientist · Thwaites Glacier drains a huge area of Antarctica’s ice sheet – about …
Reuters

Chinese scientists use lunar soil to produce water, state media reports
Reuters
In 2020, China’s Chang’e-5 mission marked the first time humans retrieved lunar samples in 44 years. Researchers from the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered that the minerals in this ‘moon …