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NPR

Scientists have found a way to decode a stream of words in the brain using MRI scans and artificial intelligence. The system reconstructs the gist of what a person hears or imagines, rather than trying to replicate each word, a team reports in the …

Space.com

The moon will pass into the outer shadow of the Earth on Friday (May 5), creating an astronomical event called a penumbral eclipse. During the eclipse, skywatchers will see the moon darken but not completely disappear.

Space.com

“By 2030, the Chinese people will definitely be able to set foot on the moon. That’s not a problem,” Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar exploration program, told Chinese broadcaster CCTV on April 18, ahead of the country’s national “space day” on …

Astronomy Magazine

In the middle of a penumbral lunar eclipse, one limb of our satellite will appear darker, creating a slight gradient across the Moon’s face. Giuseppe Donatiello. Venus puts on its best show of the year in the evening sky, visible until very late.

Florida Today

Update: Liftoff of Falcon Heavy with the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite at 8:26 p.m. EDT Sunday, April 30! The launch from Kennedy Space Center kicks off a nearly five-hour spacecraft separation process, which is part of the reason why the rocket’s three …

Florida Today

The United States, Japan, Canada, and countries from the European Space Agency have agreed to extend cooperation through 2030 while Russia maintains plans for an early dismissal. Jamie Groh. Florida Today.

Florida Today

SpaceX’s triple-core Falcon Heavy rocket soared from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, kicking off a complicated mission that boosted a powerful commercial communications satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.

al.com

The NASA employees kept coming in at the Activities Center and more chairs kept getting added and eventually a standing-room only crowd was in place and was this a Taylor Swift concert? No, not on a Monday morning at Marshall Space Flight Center …

Phys.Org

A team of space scientists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at both the Purple Mountain Observatory and the National Astronomical Observatories, has found that the traditional view of the Milky Way galaxy as having four arms is not correct.

Nature.com

We compiled an inventory of eukaryotic hosts of all major virus taxa and reconstructed the LECA virome by inferring the origins of these groups of viruses. The origin of the LECA virome can be traced back to a small set of bacterial—not archaeal—viruses.