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Hello readers, and Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of This Week in Space of 2023. It’s the twelfth day of Christmas — and the first full moon of the year, the Wolf Moon, rises tonight. And TGIF, am I right?Today, we’ve got…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T cell. (Image: NIAID/Wikimedia Commons)A new implant could become a key tool in the fight against various…
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Happy Friday, space cadets, and welcome to your favorite escape from Earthly news shy of literally fleeing the planet. There are images of Neptune and its moons from the James Webb space telescope. We also heard this week that the…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nerve cells are difficult to heal after disease or trauma, but UCSF’s research might change that. (Credit: PASIEKA/Getty Images)Despite how efficient…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Dylan Gillis/Unsplash)Most of us know autism exists on a spectrum, manifesting in different ways for different people. Despite these variables,…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Image: Konstantin Kolosov/Pixabay)The so-called “circle of life” dictates that if a living thing exists, it’s probably food for something else.…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Update 7:23 PM EDT: Success!IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Voyager probes began their trek to the edge of the unknown in 1977, and they’re still operating all these decades later. Earlier this year, NASA…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Credit: RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images)The Earth’s climate is warming, and the potential for serious consequences in the future is strong. Are things so dire…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA’s Perseverance rover is laying the groundwork to get Mars samples back to Earth. After 15 months of drilling carefully selected bits of the red…
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