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NASA and Axiom react to OIG Report on delays in Next-Generation Spacesuit Program

NASA’s leadership and Axiom have reacted to a warning from the NASA Office of Inspector…The postNASA and Axiom react to OIG Report on delays in Next-Generation Spacesuit Programappeared first onNASASp...

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Breathing new life into an ancient mystery: Unlocking the trilobite's respiratory secrets

For more than 270 million years, trilobites were among the most successful and diverse creatures on Earth, with over 22,000 known species spanning the Paleozoic Era. Yet, despite their abundance in th...

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Hurricanes devastated Florida's East Coast. Then seagrass made an unexpected comeback

Florida's Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem in decline going back to 2011, when harmful algal blooms led to a severe decline in seagrass, the foundational component of shallow coastal ecosyste...

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Before the melt begins, sea stars show hidden immune collapse and tissue failure driving a coastal die-off

Scientists are homing in on a mysterious wasting disease that has killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America since 2013. Sea star wasting disease can rapidly wipe out entire...

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Penguin muscle map reveals how waddles and underwater 'flight' both work

Penguins may look charmingly awkward on land, but new research shows their bodies are finely tuned for powerful, efficient movement both on land and underwater. A team of anatomists from Midwestern Un...

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Lack of robust regulation and information about contaminated industrial sites in India poses public health risk

New research has highlighted how inadequate environmental regulations and assessments of contaminated industrial land in India are endangering human populations and wildlife ecosystems.

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North African-linked stone tools reached Iberia 700,000 years ago, evidence suggests

Members of the Atapuerca Research Team from the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), the Universi...

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Cell membranes may store memories after electrical stimulation

The science of memories has been pursued and studied since the days of ancient Greece and Aristotle. Today, research conducted by Dima Bolmatov, assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astr...

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Collagen analysis finds wider prey use by Neanderthals and modern humans

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has taken part in a study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology that provides new insights into subsistence...

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Some cancer drugs disrupt taste by changing the cells inside taste buds, study shows

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz may have identified why many cancer patients say food suddenly tastes unpleasant during treatment. The study, published today in Development, found t...

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Rose pangenome maps 55,000 genes, opening new path for breeding

Roses are among the most economically significant ornamental plants worldwide, with widespread applications in the cut flowers, garden, and cosmetics industries. Yet fewer than 10% of rose species hav...

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Researchers develop, validate new scale to measure use of evidence in evidence-based management

Evidence-based management is increasingly used by organizations to aid in decision-making, but research in this area is limited. In a new study, researchers developed and validated a new measure—the E...

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Scientists take a step toward a quantum internet using New York City's fiber

As long as there's been an internet, there's been a way to hack it. Scientists have spent decades imagining a different kind of network, one where the laws of physics make eavesdropping physically imp...

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Deep-rooted grass stores significantly more carbon, says new study

Soil biologist Eric Slessarev has some advice for conservationists, landscapers, and farmers with fallow fields: Go touch deep-rooted grass. Or better yet, go plant some. Slessarev, an assistant profe...

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Photonic chip generates milliwatt-level UV light, 100 times brighter than before

Researchers from the University of Twente and Harvard University have developed a new way to generate ultraviolet (UV) light on a photonic chip at power levels high enough for real-world use. For the ...

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Mapping the hidden structure of the universe

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies and quasars and 19 million stars. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, an assistant profe...

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NASA Invites Media to Jordan Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 23, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Amb...

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Astronomers precisely date rare brown dwarf companion, offering new test for how these objects cool

Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi have precisely measured the age of a nearby sun-like star and its unusual companion, known as a brown dwarf, an object that falls between a planet and a star. ...

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Half of America sits in democratic limbo—and that silent middle may decide what breaks next

If you were to ask democracy scholars what they consider the greatest threat to American democracy, you might assume it is voters who support undemocratic practices or policies. But the real answer ma...

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How changing ice conditions impact Great Lakes communities

A research collaboration, including a team of students from the University of Michigan, has published a new report that dives into an understudied aspect on changing ice cover on the Great Lakes. Name...

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