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First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface

First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Sur...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 3

Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission is the first U.S. soft landing on the moon sinc...

JWST Solves Decades-Old Mystery of Nearby Supernova

JWST Solves Decades-Old Mystery of Nearby Supernova

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 4

Scientists have finally found the compact object at the heart of the famous supe...

Why Do We Have a Leap Year Anyway?

Why Do We Have a Leap Year Anyway?

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 22

Without adding an extra day to February every four years, our calendar would get...

Martian soil could be turned into fibres as strong as steel

Martian soil could be turned into fibres as strong as s...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 2

A mimic of Martian soil can be turned into strong fibres. Such a material could ...

Spring 2024 Pathways Vacancies

Spring 2024 Pathways Vacancies

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 2

Our next application cycle will open on February 26, 2024 for Fall 2024 opportun...

Hubble Views an Active Star-Forming Galaxy

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 1

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that...

A robot dog has learned to open doors with its leg

A robot dog has learned to open doors with its leg

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 2

Four-legged robots typically need an arm to open doors or pick up objects, but t...

Casimir Funk: The scientist who gave us the word 'vitamin'

Casimir Funk: The scientist who gave us the word 'vitamin'

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 20

Biochemist Casimir Funk realised that certain compounds in our diet are essentia...

Does trophy hunting actually help animal conservation?

Does trophy hunting actually help animal conservation?

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 1

It may seem counterintuitive, but trophy hunting leads to a lot of land being pr...

First gene-edited meat will come from disease-proof CRISPR pigs

First gene-edited meat will come from disease-proof CRI...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 2

Pigs that have been given genetically engineered immunity to porcine reproductiv...

LGBTQ people seen as needing more protection online than Christians

LGBTQ people seen as needing more protection online tha...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 25

A study of around 9000 US adults has found that people are more in favour of rem...

Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission to land on the moon

Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission to lan...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 2

Intuitive Machines has landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the moon, making it the...

Odd quantum property may let us chill things closer to absolute zero

Odd quantum property may let us chill things closer to ...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 4

We can already cool objects with fridges and with lasers. Now there is a third c...

NASA Instruments Will Listen for Supersonic X-59’s Quiet ‘Thump’

NASA Instruments Will Listen for Supersonic X-59’s Quie...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 1

NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than t...

Climate benefits of planting forests might be overestimated

Climate benefits of planting forests might be overestim...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 2

The warming avoided by planting CO2-absorbing forests could be around 15 to 30 p...

Famous supernova left a blazing hot neutron star at its centre

Famous supernova left a blazing hot neutron star at its...

SIN Feb 23, 2024 0 2

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that a nearby sup...

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