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Astronomers demonstrate how using the cloud can rev up the race to find asteroids
Astronomers have used a cloud-based technique pioneered at the University of Washington to identify and track asteroids in bunches of…
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New Microscope Uncovers Exciting Insights Into Promising Solar Cell Material
Visualization of the microscope tip exposing material to terahertz light. The colors on the material represent the light-scattering data, and…
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Breaking an Optical Rule – Engineers Manipulate Light at the Nanoscale
The materials could allow better control of light at the nanoscale, opening new possibilities for display technologies. If you’re going…
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From Artemis to Webb, take a look back — and a look ahead — at the year’s top trends in aerospace
A few years from now, we just might look back at 2022 as Year One for a new age in…
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NASA calls an end to Mars InSight lander mission, with Aerojet getting in on tributes
Four years after engineers cheered the landing of the robotic InSight spacecraft on Mars, NASA today declared an end to…
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Beaming Clean Energy From Space – Caltech’s “Extraordinary and Unprecedented Project”
Collecting solar power in space and transmitting the energy wirelessly to Earth through microwaves enables terrestrial power availability unaffected by…
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Large Parts of Europe Warming Twice As Fast as the Planet – Already Surpassed 2°C
Left and right figures show warming in Europe of the summer half-year during the latest four decades, subdivided for clear-sky…
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AI Helped Design a Clear Window Coating That Can Cool Buildings Without Using Energy
This window film (held in fingers at top left) keeps rooms bright and cool by allowing visible light to pass…
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Orion capsule watches the moon eclipse Earth at farthest point of Artemis odyssey
Halfway into its 25.5-day uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, NASA’s Orion capsule today recorded a weird kind of Earth-moon eclipse, reached…
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ESA SOLARIS: Wireless Power Beamed Down From Space
Solar power gathered far away in space, seen here being transmitted wirelessly down to Earth to wherever it is needed.…
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