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Space.com

Despite a few problems with (sigh) valves, helium tanks, and thrusters, the mission appears to be going swimmingly. Then, just a day later, SpaceX launched a Starship on a fourth test flight with spectacular results–and may be ready for another test …

Fox Business

Former NASA executive Ezinne Uzo-Okoro reacts to the launch of the Boeing Starliner and weighs in on the growth of the private space sector. SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin …

News-Medical.net

Neurons communicate electrically so to understand how they produce brain functions such as memory, neuroscientists must track how their voltage changes-;sometimes subtly-;on the timescale of milliseconds. In a new paper in Nature Communications, …

KABC-TV

A hike in North Dakota’s Badlands led to a staggering discovery. A dad and some budding paleontologists unearthed very rare bones from the dinosaur age. It was an unlikely prehistoric discovery. Kaiden Madsen, along with his cousins, Liam and Jessin …

The Hindu

Sky-gazers lined up in the wee hours of Sunday at the Promenade Beach to catch a glimpse of a rare planetary alignment. The viewing of the axis of six planets— Saturn, Neptune, Mars, Uranus, Mercury and Jupiter—observable since June 3 and through …

Earth.com

Important scientific discoveries often come from the most unassuming sources. Such is the case with a modest, 6-centimeter-wide fossil of bone and teeth discovered on a Texas beach that belonged to a prehistoric large cat.

Earth.com

A recent breakthrough in paleontology has shed light on the early evolution of sponges, one of the Earth’s oldest known animal groups. Researchers have unearthed a fossil from the late Ediacaran period, around 550 million years ago, that offers new …

Science Daily

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each other in a highly dangerous way. The plates can periodically lock up and build stress over wide areas — eventually to be released …

Axios

In their new study, Olierook and his collaborators analyzed zircon grains embedded in 3.1 billion-year-old sandstone from Australia’s Jack Hills. What they found: Analyzing thousands of the tiny crystals, the …

Livemint

A recent report from the US Bipartisan Commission on Biodefence cautioned NASA and governments worldwide against extra-terrestrial contagion to prevent a global meltdown, reported The Telegraph. This development comes after hundreds of people were …