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A metal is a material defined by specific properties, including conducting electricity well. Every metal has a finite conductivity — a measure of how well it conducts — in particular conditions. It changes when the metal
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SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, as Starship is prepared to be placed on top, at the company’s Boca Chica complex, ahead of Starship’s eighth test flight which is targeted from Starbase,
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Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 Curiosity continues to climb roughly southward through the layered sulfate strata toward the “boxwork” features. Although the
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Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the
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I’m really pleased that you agreed to take advantage of this opportunity. I don’t recall if I have actually met you personally, but if so, then I apologize for not remembering. I don’t think so, although
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On March 3, 1915, the United States Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Although the NACA’s founding took place just over 11 years after the Wright Brothers’ first powered flightfirst powered flight at
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Preventing biofilm formation in space Two anti-microbial coatings reduced formation of biofilms in microgravity and have potential for use in space. Controlling biofilms could help protect human health and prevent corrosion and degradation of equipment on
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Students from Ohio and Texas will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions this week. At 12:55 p.m. EST, Wednesday, March 5, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Nick
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In this 1957 photo, George Cooper, a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, stands next to a North American F-100, a supersonic fighter tested by the NACA. Cooper served as a
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In a fast-paced competition, students showcased their knowledge across a wide range of science and math topics. What is the molecular geometry of sulfur tetrafluoride? Which layer of the Sun is thickest? What is the average
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On Feb. 28, 1990, space shuttle Atlantis took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on STS-36, the sixth shuttle mission dedicated to the Department of Defense. As such, many of the details of the
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1 min read An Ocean in Motion: NASA’s Mesmerizing View of Earth’s Underwater Highways Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Climate Change Science in Action Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us This
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Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or accurately predict fluctuations in temperature, salinity, and other properties. As a result, models of ocean dynamics rapidly diverged
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NASA has selected Norman Knight as acting deputy director of Johnson Space Center. Knight currently serves as Director of Johnson’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), responsible for astronaut training and for overall planning, directing, managing, and implementing
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Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin Icon Books (2025) What is it with toilets? In domestic households, men and women use the same ones without a fuss, but at some
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This April 2024 image provided by NASA shows the SPHEREx telescope at a facility in Boulder, Colorado, in the US. | Photo Credit: AP NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to
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In the past few weeks, global health research programmes have been shaken by events in the United States. These include the country’s intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a freeze on foreign aid from
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There have long been worries that a critical network of currents in the Atlantic Ocean could come to a halt catastrophically as the climate changes. Credit: Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group/Getty A crucial ocean-current system seems
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The Trump administration prevented NASA’s chief scientist from travelling to climate talks where she was to co-chair a working group.Credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty A major United Nations climate assessment is moving forwards in China this week without
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Gidney, C. & Ekerå, M. How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits. Quantum 5, 433 (2021). Article MATH Google Scholar Dalzell, A. M. et al. Quantum algorithms: a
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Brodie, J. F. et al. Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity. Nature 620, 807–812 (2023). Article ADS CAS PubMed MATH Google Scholar Ferraro, P. J. Counterfactual thinking and impact evaluation in environmental policy. New
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Jin, J. et al. Topologically enabled ultrahigh-Q guided resonances robust to out-of-plane scattering. Nature 574, 501–504 (2019). Article ADS CAS PubMed MATH Google Scholar Liu, C., Zhang, S., Maier, S. A. & Ren, H. Disorder-induced topological
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Brown, T. L. et al. Chemistry: The Central Science (Pearson, 2015). Oxtoby, D. W., Gillis, H. P. & Butler, L. J. Principles of Modern Chemistry (Cengage Learning, 2016). Kouwenhoven, L. P., Austing, D. G. & Tarucha,
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Rare disease genomes from the 100KGP The Health Research Authority Research Ethics Committee East of England—Cambridge South (Ref. 14/EE/111) gave ethical approval for the 100KGP. Patients with rare diseases and affected and unaffected family members were
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Batty, P. & Gerlich, D. W. Mitotic chromosome mechanics: how cells segregate their genome. Trends Cell Biol. 29, 717–726 (2019). Article PubMed Google Scholar Oldenkamp, R. & Rowland, B. D. A walk through the SMC cycle:
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Beginning in late 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, the mobile phones of tens of thousands of impoverished villagers in Togo pinged with good news. Their money was ready. With the help of artificial
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The brain’s blood vessels (artificially coloured) are lined with slick molecules, forming a guard against inflammation in brain tissue.Credit: Vsevolod Zviryk/Science Photo Library A slimy barrier lining the brain’s blood vessels could hold the key to
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The drive had been lazy, uneventful. Window open, AC off, no online activity for hours, no cravings of any kind. On a whim, Akili had decided to visit the new megastore on the outskirts of the
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Nature, Published online: 26 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00307-9 Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on
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Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis. Lancet 399, 629–655 (2022). Article Google Scholar Won, S. Y. et al. Emergence and rapid regional spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae.
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Nature, Published online: 27 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00577-3 Granite from the chunk of Earth’s crust called the Lhasa terrane did not come from India, as had previously been thought, but from much further afield.
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Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide
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Planetary parades are not particularly significant to scientists but they can create a visual spectacle. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In a small window of time around February 28, people on the earth were in for
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Nicknamed ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky,’ the mission comes just over a year after the first-ever commercial lunar landing and is part of a NASA partnership with industry to cut costs and support Artemis, the program
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Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The brain’s blood vessels (artificially coloured) are lined with slick molecules, forming a guard against inflammation in
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Nature, Published online: 27 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00576-4 The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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Nature, Published online: 27 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00643-w Rare substance found in ancient skull reveals presence of a super-heated ash cloud.
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The supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy is in continuous turmoil, observations made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get
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The robotics laboratory at Insilico Medicine, an artificial-intelligence biotechnology firm in Boston, Massachusetts.Credit: Insilico Medicine Drug discovery is extraordinarily difficult. “In 100 years or so of contemporary medicine, we’ve found treatments for only around 500 of
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A lander and an orbiter are on their way to the Moon to look for water at the lunar south pole (pictured).Credit: Alan Dyer/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Two US spacecraft launched to the Moon
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