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Space.com

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have achieved a 98% water recovery rate in a breakthrough achieved by a method that might make the faint of heart slightly squeamish: they hit peak astronaut pee recycling.

The Washington Post

Like crime scene investigators, scientists are retracing what exactly happened on Jan. 15, 2022, near the Tonga archipelago in the South Pacific. At the time, the bare facts were obvious: an underwater volcano erupted, and it was enormous.

Space.com

From watching out of the window of a steam locomotive to glamping, music and even chucking pumpkins, there are lots of different ways to experience the annular solar eclipse in the U.S. on Oct. 14, 2023. Comments (0).

Science

GNWT gained initial support from experiments that asked participants to report the moment they became aware of a stimulus, such as an image flashing on a screen. In those studies, many of them led by Dehaene, brain scans showed that the prefrontal cortex …

IEEE Spectrum

By firing a laser from a volcano in Hawai’i, scientists now reveal they can synchronize atomic clocks to 320 billionths of a billionth of a second (0.32 femtoseconds or 320 attoseconds) over a distance of more than 300 kilometers.

Hindustan Times

Earth’s thermosphere has experienced its highest temperature in nearly 20 years as a result of intense solar storms. These storms, caused by coronal mass ejections and solar wind from the sun, have led to a significant increase in the temperature of …

Hindustan Times

In yet another proud moment for India, Rutu Parekh, a planetary geologist from Gujarat, and three other scientists were honored for their achievements. Rutu Parekh had an an asteroid named after her – Asteroid 2000HD73 is has been renamed as “Rutu …

Chemical & Engineering News

As the temperature of this roughly 1 m² vacuum test chamber changes from –18 to 35 °C, radiator panels made from a shape-memory alloy autonomously close and open. “Also, I have duct tape. . . . Even NASA can’t improve on duct tape,” says Mark Watney, …

India Times

According to NASA, this “ancient sleeping giant awoke recently, about 200 years ago, to feast on gas and other cosmic material within its reach.” Space agency NASA has …

SemiEngineering

A technical paper titled “All-silicon quantum light source by embedding an atomic emissive center in a nanophotonic cavity” was published by researchers at University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.