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Identify a plant that can grow on Mars

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A future civilization on Mars may be accompanied by a very special and resilient little plant. A type of moss found in the desert – called Syntrichia caninervis— may be able to survive and grow in the harsh Martian environment, according to a new paper in the journal INNOVATION. This moss can grow in temperatures … Read more

A milestone achieved in the discovery of the fundamental forces of the universe at the Large Hadron Collider

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Building on their extensive involvement at CERN, the University of Rochester team recently achieved “highly accurate” measurements of the weak mixing angle, a core component of the Standard Model of particle physics. Credit: Samuel Joseph Hertzog; Julien Marius Ordan Researchers at the University of Rochester, working with the CMS Collaboration on CERNhave made significant advances … Read more

Scientists drop extinction bomb, claim freak event killed last woolly mammoths

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Woolly mammoths roamed the Ice Age tundras of North America, Europe and Asia as early as 300,000 years ago. They later became extinct approximately 4,000 years ago on an isolated island off the coast of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean.

Scientists behind a new genomic study now claim that the last woolly mammoths on Earth were wiped out by an extreme storm or a plague – meaning that if an extinction event hadn’t happened, they could still be around to date. These giant Ice Age beasts roamed the then tundras of North America, Europe and … Read more

Time crystals could unlock a radical new future for quantum computers: ScienceAlert

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The path to quantum supremacy is complicated by a fairytale challenge – how do you keep a cloud from changing its shape? The possible solution sounds almost as fantastic as the problem. You can direct the cloud to dance as it travels, to the beat of a unique material known as a time crystal. Krzysztof … Read more

Return of astronauts delayed as Boeing aims to fix Starliner spacecraft

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Two American astronauts have been delayed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as engineers try to fix problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Starliner is a joint project between Boeing and the American space agency NASA. of capsule arrived at the ISS on June 6. He had left the day before from Cape Canaveral in Florida. … Read more

NASA and SpaceX are studying ways to mitigate Dragon’s trunk debris

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WASHINGTON — NASA and SpaceX are considering how to change the Dragon spacecraft’s re-entry process to limit the amount of debris from the spacecraft’s trunk section that reaches Earth. In some cases, debris from parts of the Dragon spacecraft’s trunk, which are ejected from the capsule before the capsule performs a deorbit burn, have been … Read more