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Found a 2,000-year-old block of dye that was once more expensive than gold
The Tyrian purple dye block from Roman Britain was produced from large quantities of sea snails, which may have been used for frescoes.
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Record-fast spinning asteroid crashes into Earth
2024 BX1, the asteroid that crashed into Earth on January 21, rotated faster than any near-Earth object ever recorded.
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Alien abyss reveals signs of potential life
Subtle movements on the surface of an alien world could be evidence of an ocean teeming with life.
Space science
Miniature reactors - a solution for powering lunar bases
Astronauts living on the Moon will need a lot of energy, but they cannot carry fuel supplies with them.
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Launching mirror clusters helps increase solar power production on Earth
Reflect Orbital, a startup in California, wants to launch a cluster of mirrors into orbit to transmit sunlight to solar power plants to increase electricity production a…
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NASA robots continuously catch 'unexpected life signals'
Methane, one of the signs that suggests alien life, was found in an absurd way by the Curiosity robot.
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Nuclear rocket technology helps fly quickly to Mars
Pulsed Plasma Rocket technology allows flights to Mars to be completed in just 2 months, while the current time is about 9 months.
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To stay healthy while working on the Moon, astronauts can use the Wall of Death
The device bears the name
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Earth explodes with life thanks to 'threat from space'?
About 591 - 565 million years ago, the Earth's magnetosphere was almost
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Finding the origin of cosmic particles that pass through our bodies billions of times per second
About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created in the Big Bang, these primordial neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe,…
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Chang'e 6 mission and China's ambitions on the Moon
China is returning to the mysterious far side of the moon and bringing back some lunar samples.
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NASA postpones the launch of the manned Starliner spacecraft
Before the decision to postpone the launch of the Starliner spacecraft was made, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were already sitting in the driver's seat.
Space science
Found satellite missing for nearly 30 years in orbit
Satellite S73-7 is 66cm wide, operates in an 800km high orbit and has disappeared from radar since the 1990s.
Space science
Why can a Bluetooth device on Earth successfully connect to a satellite at a distance of 600km?
The Hubble Network has set itself the ambitious goal of creating a global satellite network capable of connecting to any Bluetooth device.