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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Alexander Grey/Unsplash)“Forever chemicals,” or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), have made quite a few appearances in the…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Until recently, DART was a spacecraft about the size of a vending machine. Now, it’s debris scattered across the surface of a small asteroid called…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA released an impressive desktop app some years back called “NASA’s Eyes Visualization,” which allowed you to check out the solar system, along with…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA is still working toward getting Artemis 1 off the ground, which is arguably the most important milestone in its quest to return humankind to the…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Neurotransmitters binding with a neuron. (Credit: Scientific Animations/CC BY-SA 4.0)Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of the central…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken pictures of stars, planets, and galaxies — now we can add exoplanets to the list. NASA reports that…
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are just about indestructible. No matter the threat, it seems tardigrades have a trick up their tiny, tiny…
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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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