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Northwestern Chemists Solve 30-Year Rye Pollen Mystery Behind Anti-Tumor Molecules
EVANSTON, Illinois — The rye plant, a cereal crop widely grown for its grain, has held a secret…
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SpaceX Scuttles 260 Starlink Satellites in Controlled Atmospheric Burn-Up
WASHINGTON, July 7 — SpaceX deliberately incinerated 260 Starlink satellites in Earth’s atmosphere during the first six months…
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SpaceX Vaporizes 260 Starlink Satellites Over Six Months
WASHINGTON, July 7 — SpaceX has deliberately deorbited and vaporized 260 Starlink satellites over the past six months,…
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Chemists crack 30-year rye-pollen anti-tumor compound mystery
EVANSTON — Nearly 30 years after researchers first discovered two unusual molecules in rye pollen that showed promise…
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Plasma Wind Tunnel Tests Show What Reentering Satellites Leave in the Atmosphere
WASHINGTON, July 7 — A single satellite constellation could be injecting hundreds of metric tons of aluminum oxide…
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SpaceX Retires 260 Starlink Satellites, With 349 More Queued, in FCC Filing
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 7 — The economics of space are shifting under the weight of hardware failures. SpaceX,…
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SpaceX Destroys 260 Starlink Satellites, Sparking Pollution Fears
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 7 — 351 metric tons. That is the total mass of Starlink hardware that SpaceX…
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Toxic Tire Chemical 6PPD-Q Threatens Coho Salmon Survival
SEATTLE — On the surface of a worn tire, a chemical transformation is underway, and researchers say it…
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SpaceX Reports Burning Up 260 Starlink Satellites in Six Months, 349 More Queued
LOS ANGELES, July 7 — A regulatory filing by the Federal Communications Commission shows that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite…
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Scientists solve 30-year-old molecular mystery of rye pollen compounds
EVANSTON, July 7 — A pair of molecules first glimpsed in rye pollen nearly three decades ago have…
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Ultra-Black Vantablack 310 Coating Could Dim Satellites, Surrey Study Finds
ROME, July 6 — For astronomers, a satellite streaking across the night sky is more than a nuisance.…
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Surrey Study: Vantablack 310 Coating Could Cut Satellite Glare for Astronomers
WASHINGTON, July 6 — A new ultra-black coating that reflects only two percent of incoming light could make…
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How Nuclear Fusion Works: The Science of Recreating a Star on Earth
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The race to harness the power of the stars is entering a new phase,…
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NASA Sets Artemis II Launch for April 1 With Moon Flyby and Splashdown Schedule
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The Artemis program’s next major milestone is Artemis II, currently scheduled for November 2024.…
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NASA Details Starship and Blue Moon Lander Timelines Ahead of Artemis III and IV
BOCA CHICA, Texas, July 6 — The SpaceX Starship, a fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by…
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Ultra-Black Coating Reflects 2% of Light, Slashes Satellite Pollution
ROME, July 6 — For families who have taken children to see the Milky Way, only to find…
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The Sugar Glider’s Long Glide: Precision, Parallax and a Fifty-Meter Descent
New York, July 5 — The first thing to understand about a Sugar Glider is what it cannot…
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Marie Curie: From Warsaw exile to Nobel-winning scientist
PARIS, July 4 — Against the backdrop of a city that still bears the intellectual fingerprints of its…
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UK Farmland Birds Down as Much as 90% in Places, Conservationists Warn
WASHINGTON, July 4 — The birds haven’t vanished completely. But their numbers are falling fast enough that scientists…
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Boston heard the Declaration of Independence two weeks after the signing
PHILADELPHIA, July 4 — The first Fourth of July was not a day of celebration at all. Nobody…
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Heliconius butterflies defy aging norms with near-year-long lifespans
PANAMA CITY, July 3 — 348 days. That is how long one tropical butterfly, Heliconius hewitsoni , survived…
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Magnitude 5.2 Quake Near Karpathos Keeps Greek Emergency Services on Alert
KARPATHOS, Greece — The shaking was shallow. That is the problem. When the U.S. Geological Survey logged a…
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes 50 km SW of Jurm, Afghanistan
JURM, Afghanistan, July 1 — A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck approximately 50 kilometers southwest of Jurm, Afghanistan, on…
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Magnitude 5.3 Quake Strikes 84 Km SSW of El Progreso in Mexico
EL PROGRESO, Mexico, June 30 — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck 84 kilometers south-southwest of El Progreso, Mexico,…
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