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Experts Say Starship’s Heat Shield Is the Obstacle to Rapid Reuse, and NASA Has Not Helped
HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 27, 2026 — On the test stands in McGregor, Texas, engineers fire up another sequence:…
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Ocean Dead Zones Have Quadrupled Since the 1950s as Oxygen Levels Fall
NEW YORK, July 27 — A major new synthesis of ocean monitoring data, published this year in Science…
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NASA-Linked Group Wants Next-Generation Telescopes to Hunt for Alien Technology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — The hunt for Dyson spheres, those hypothetical megastructures that would wrap a star…
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How the Penrose Process Could Draw Energy From a Spinning Black Hole
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — A theoretical energy source first sketched out in 1969 is now being re-examined…
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Scientists at MIT Workshop Weigh How to Spot Dyson Spheres Around Black Holes
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In a closed workshop this past November, a small group of the world’s top astrophysicists…
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Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake Strikes Off Atka in Alaska’s Aleutians, No Tsunami Threat
ATKA, Alaska, July 26 — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck 99 kilometers southeast of Atka, Alaska, at 08:35…
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Astrophotography From Daguerre’s Failed 1839 Moon Shot to Modern CCD Imaging
MANILA, July 25 — The night sky has always drawn eyes upward, but turning that gaze into a…
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US Energy Department Runs Nuclear Weapons, National Labs and a $17.5 Billion Reactor Loan Push
WASHINGTON, July 25 — The United States Department of Energy occupies a singular position on the American national…
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JET, Europe’s fusion reactor, shuts down after 40 years
LONDON, July 25 — Against the backdrop of a decommissioning effort that will stretch into the 2040s, the…
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Light Pollution Hides the Milky Way From More Than a Third of the World
WASHINGTON, July 25 — Light pollution has escalated into a global environmental crisis that now affects the overwhelming…
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NASA Puts Early $2.1 Billion Price Tag on Nuclear-Powered Mars Spacecraft
WASHINGTON, July 21 – NASA’s plan to test a nuclear thermal rocket engine for deep-space travel has hit…
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Satellites Dodge Debris as ESA Warns Orbit Cleanup Lags
LONDON, July 16 — The space around our planet is getting crowded, and not in a good way.…
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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Aces Mars Flyby En Route to Metal Asteroid
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2026 — infopulsetoday.com — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has used Mars as a gravitational slingshot…
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Political Psychology Explores Voting, Leadership, and Extremism
ROME, July 21 — The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune of 1871 did more than redraw borders.…
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From Babylon to Ptolemy: How Ancient Mapmakers Pictured the World
LONDON, July 21 — The history of cartography is a record of human efforts to model reality—or imagined…
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ZHR Forecast: Thirty Meteors an Hour Over Next Twenty-Four Hours
ISLAMABAD, July 21 — The zenithal hourly rate, or ZHR, is a standard astronomical measure that helps scientists…
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Ion Thrusters From Dawn to the X3: How They Work and Where They Fall Short
WASHINGTON, July 20 — The ion thruster, a form of electric propulsion for spacecraft, has quietly become a…
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SpaceX Rocket Stage Set to Hit Moon Aug. 5 as Scientists Prepare to Watch
WASHINGTON, July 20 — What began as a routine launch seven years ago now ends with a quiet…
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LSU Physicists Build Room-Temperature Material That Sorts Quantum States of Light
WASHINGTON, July 19 — A team of physicists has produced the first quantum material that operates at room…
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Ancient Indian Universities: Nalanda, Vikramshila, and Takshashila
NALANDA, India, July 19 — Ancient Indian universities like Nalanda, Vikramshila, and Takshashila were teaching astronomy, mathematics, medicine,…
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ESO study warns satellite fleets in the millions could cripple ground-based astronomy
WASHINGTON, July 16 — By nightfall tonight, a new pinprick of light will begin tracking across the American…
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From Bicycle Shop to the Sky: Wright Brothers’ Path to Flight
KITTY HAWK, N.C., July 16 — The number that matters: 12 seconds. That is how long the first…
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Building a Hypercube: From Point to Tesseract in Four Steps
LONDON, July 16 — A unit hypercube of dimension four is called a tesseract. That much has been…
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SpaceX’s Controlled Deorbit Burns Satellites in Atmosphere
LOS ANGELES, July 7 — The sky above the Pacific is, by nightfall, a graveyard for satellites. On…
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