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Thawing Permafrost Could Leach Microbes, Chemicals Into Environment
Scientists are turning to a combination of data collected from the air, land, and space to get a more complete picture of how climate change is affecting the planet’s frozen regions.
Trapped within Earth’s permafrost – ground that remains frozen for a minimum of two years – are…
If Congress’ sweeping new spending bill is signed, it would finally provide full funding to some major NASA projects that have been underfunded over the last few years. Notably, NASA’s program to develop a new human lunar lander would be fully funded as the president’s…
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Meet the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
Right now, some 182 million miles (293 million kilometers) separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But…
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NASA’s Psyche Gets Huge Solar Arrays for Trip to Metal-Rich Asteroid
With its solar arrays installed, the spacecraft is close to its final configuration ahead of a planned August launch.
NASA’s Psyche mission is almost ready for its moment in the Sun – a 1.5-billion-mile (2.4-billion-kilometer) solar-powered journey to a mysterious, metal-rich asteroid of the…
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Space Station to Host ‘Self-Healing’ Quantum Communications Tech Demo
The NASA-funded experiment will test two technologies that could eventually enable quantum computers to communicate with each other no matter where they are located.
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Samsung confirms hackers stole Galaxy source code
March 7, 2022
Hackers have successfully stolen internal company data and source code for Galaxy devices from Samsung, the South Korean tech giant confirmed today.
News of the breach was first reported earlier this month, with a hacking outfit named Lapsus$ claiming responsibility. The…
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NASA Finds Each State Has Its Own Climatic Threshold for Flu Outbreaks
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NASA satellite data illuminates a critical relationship between low humidity and the outbreak of flu in the U.S.
What triggers an outbreak of the influenza virus? A new study of the flu in the 48 contiguous U.S. states, using data…
NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft
March 4, 2022
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NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft
Science instruments and other hardware for the spacecraft will come together in the mission’s final phase before a launch to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in 2024.
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California Fire Led to Spike in Bacteria, Cloudiness in Coastal Waters
Scientists analyzed coastal water quality in the months following a major Southern California wildfire. Their results were eye-opening.
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NASA’s NuSTAR Makes Illuminating Discoveries With ‘Nuisance’ Light
A design quirk in the X-ray observatory has made it possible for astronomers to use previously unwanted light to study even more cosmic objects than before.
For almost 10 years, NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) X-ray space observatory has been studying some…
