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UK firm’s 4K video cameras head to space station – BBC News
By Jonathan AmosScience correspondentTo play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browserVideo caption, A rare view: A cloudless UK and Ireland21 March 2024Ultra high-definition cameras from a UK start-up are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS). The 4K system from SEN.COM will be attached to the front of…
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Simulation shows why April solar eclipse may be especially magnificent
When the moon blocks the sun and day turns to night on April 8, the sky will take on an otherworldly appearance for those in the path of totality — the roughly 115-mile-wide swath from Texas to Maine. Stars will emerge from their midday slumber, the horizon in all directions will be bathed in a peachy twilight, and — spectacularly — the solar…
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“Once-in-a-Million-Years” – Scientists Discover Strange Fossils of Duckbill Dinosaurs in
Minqaria bata was around the size of a pony (3-4 meters long) and closely resembles the European species of duckbill dinosaur. Credit: Raul MartinFossils of pony-sized duckbill dinosaurs from Morocco have been discovered by an international team of scientists. Their analysis reveals a surprising connection between the dinosaurs of Europe and…
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Longest solar eclipse will take place over west coast of Mexico
Paul Maley grew up in Texas at the height of the Space Age of the 1960s, often looking skyward. He was mesmerized by solar eclipses, including one he photographed as a young teen, its image projected on a lawn chair.Over the years, an interest in eclipses took him far beyond any Texas backyard. Today the 76-year-old is among America’s most…
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Strange structures discovered in the Pacific could change our understanding of Earth
Scientists believe they’ve found a window into the dawn of time on Earth, and it’s hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean.A team led by geophysicist Simon Lamb, of the University of Wellington and scientist Cornel de Ronde, of GNS Science, said the key to our past lies in a remote corner of South Africa and way down on the seafloor off the coast of…
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Scientists discover monstrous ‘zombie worms’ that can devour whole alligators
A warning to readers who don’t have a fear of the deep ocean: this story might soon change that.Back in 2019, a group of researchers who wanted to stir excitement down in the murky recesses of the sea conducted a unique experiment.The team, from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), dropped three dead alligators 6,560 feet…
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Scientists Thought Only Two Animals Lived in The Great Salt Lake. They Were Wrong.
For decades, the Great Salt Lake in the United States was thought to officially house just two animals bigger than a cell: brine shrimp and brine flies.Apart from that, only bacteria and algae had been found in the lake's ultra-saline waters.Now, scientists have found a third form of multicellular life that can also stomach an unsavory amount…
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Scientists discover fossilized remnants of earliest known forest
Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month — offering a glimpse of how plants grew hundreds of millions of years ago.Writing in the Journal of the Geological Society, researchers describe finding a fossilized forest that they say marks a…
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Scientists Identify The World’s First ‘Unconventional’ Superconductor Found in Nature
Few materials have the uncanny talent of carrying a current with virtually no resistance in what is known as superconductivity. The smallest handful of those can be found in nature.Scientists have discovered that one material with a formula found in nature is capable of superconducting at low temperatures without using the typical quantum…
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Live Updates: SpaceX Prepares to Launch Third Starship Flight
March 14, 2024, 7:02 a.m. ETMarch 14, 2024, 7:02 a.m. ETSpaceX’s Starship vehicle is nearly 90 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty and its pedestal.Credit...Chandan Khanna/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFor Elon Musk, Starship is really a Mars ship. He envisions a fleet of Starships carrying settlers to the red planet in the coming…
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