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For several months, NASA employees conducted a series of tests on the SLS rocket's main stage at the John Stennis Space Center (Mississippi). This stage will then be transported by barge to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The rest of the ...

A German-Polish research team succeeded in creating a space-time crystal the size of a micrometer made of magnons at room temperature. Using the Maxymus scanning transmission x-ray microscope at Bessy II at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, they were able ...

Travel bans have been key to efforts by many countries to control the spread of COVID-19. But new research aimed at providing a decision support system to Italian policy makers, recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, suggests that ...

Neanderthals. (NASA/JPL). Advertisement. Before us—the modern human beings or Homo sapiens—tens of thousands ...

The findings from the novel study, supported in part by the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association and the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission, are a significant breakthrough in the collective fight to advance the welfare and integrity of sport for ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in creating a micrometer-sized space-time crystal consisting of magnons at room temperature. With the help of an ultra-precise X-ray microscope, they were able to capture the recurring periodic magnetization structure in a ...

According to the study authors, the water molecule (H2O) is found everywhere in our galaxy. Based on that, the scientists suggest that other planets may have formed in the same way as Earth, Mars and Venus.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Family and friends gathered at Overcoming Believers' Church Wednesday to remember the life of a teen who was killed by gun violence. Funeral services for Janaria Muhammad, an Austin-East High School student, were held just one ...

A physician assistant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will join the first all-private space mission in a fundraising effort for the Memphis-based charitable facility. The mission, called Inspiration4, is scheduled for launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from ...

MDA has announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract with the Government of Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Defence Research and Development Canada to use satellite technology to detect vessels engaging in illegal, ...

According to the intriguing study presented to the online journal Science Advances, Earth, Venus, and Mars were created by tiny dust particles containing ice and carbon, which could also be true of the genesis of multitudes of other planets in the galaxy.

Omelette, Hamlett, Ebony and Ivory, the subjects in the Purdue University study, were able to use a joystick to play a multilevel version of a game that loosely resembles Pong. "One thing it ...

Scientists found that the insect fossils classified as damselflies for over 150 years are actually members of their own extinct suborder. For a long time, scientists just thought they are damselflies with "distorted" heads. 'Distorted' Heads. Damselflies (Zygoptera) ...

“We now have genetic evidence from an ancient dog found along the Alaskan coast,” biological sciences professor Charlotte Lindqvist said. “Because dogs are a proxy for human occupation, our data help ...

China's Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered its preset parking orbit above Mars on Wednesday and will maintain that orbit for about three months before releasing its landing capsule, the China National Space Administration said. The spacecraft, which has ...

Symptoms left unchecked included lumps, changes to moles and coughing up blood, a survey finds.

Birds sit in a pear tree as snow falls in Chehalis earlier this month. Jared Wenzelburger / jared@chronline.com.

As NASA's Perseverance rover fell through the Martian atmosphere last week, a video camera on the spacecraft captured the breakneck deployment of its parachute, which was decorated with splotches of reddish orange and white. Those splotches were a ...

The fossils are all associated with a plesiadapiform genus known as Purgatorius. However, the researchers say some of the teeth have the characteristics of a previously known species, Purgatorius janisae, while others came from a newly named species called ...

Jackson began her career with the agency in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. NASA said the mathematician and aerospace engineer led programs influencing the hiring and promotion of ...