Parker Solar Probe
09 Apr
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A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun

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Access to this page has been denied NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set for another close pass of the sun. This pass is its second of three planned encounters. The probe aims to study the sun's corona and solar wind. It will reach speeds of 430,000 mph (ca. 692,017 km/h) during its closest approach. Here's a more detailed look: Mission: The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, is designed to get closer to the sun than any earlier spacecraft. It aims to understand the sun's corona and solar wind. It also seeks to discover why the corona is significantly hotter than the sun's surface. Previous Record: The probe made...
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NASA Space Station Research Helps Power Moon Science
09 Apr
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NASA Space Station Research Helps Power Moon Science

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Destiny DoranInternational Space Station Research Communications TeamMar 14, 2025The International Space Station supports a wide range of scientific activities from looking out at our universe to breakthroughs in medical research, and is an active proving ground for technology for future Moon exploration missions and beyond. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025, kicking off science and technology operations on the surface, including three experiments either tested on or enabled by space station research. These projects are helping scientists study space weather, navigation, and computer performance in space— knowledge crucial for future Moon missions. One of the experiments, the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), is a small telescope designed to study the Earth’s magnetic environment and its interaction with the solar wind. Like the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)...
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The Download: a “dire wolf” revival, and safeguarding AI companions
09 Apr
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The Download: a “dire wolf” revival, and safeguarding AI companions

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This is today's edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire? For several years now, Texas-based company Colossal Biosciences has been in the news for its plans to re-create woolly mammoths someday. But now it’s making a bold new claim—that it has actually “de-extincted” an animal called the dire wolf. Dire wolves were large, big-jawed members of the canine family. More than 400 of their skulls have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in California. Ultimately they were replaced by smaller relatives like the gray wolf. In its effort to re-create the animal, Colossal says, it extracted DNA information from dire wolf bones and used...
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How to make great coffee with fewer beans, according to science
09 Apr
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How to make great coffee with fewer beans, according to science

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Physics Physicists have determined that the ideal technique for pour-over coffee can use up to 10 per cent fewer beans to make a cup just as flavoursome By Matthew Sparkes   The right technique can make great pour-over coffee with fewer beans Kemal Yildirim/Getty Images Physicists have discovered a technique that can produce the perfect cup of coffee with up to 10 per cent fewer beans. With climate change making coffee production an increasingly tricky proposition, it is becoming more important to brew in the most efficient way possible, says Arnold Mathijssen at the University of Pennsylvania. “Coffee is getting harder to grow, and so, because of that, prices for coffee will likely increase in coming years,” he says. “The idea for this research was really to see if we could help do something by reducing the amount of coffee beans that are...
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