By Leah Crane The Ax-1 crew SpaceX/Axiom Space The first all-private trip to the International Space Station (ISS) is launching on 8 April aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The…
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Elon Musk buys 9% stake in Twitter, becoming platform’s largest shareholder
Elon Musk can now add “social media magnate” to his list of titles. The billionaire entrepreneur, who runs both SpaceX and Tesla, has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, regulatory…
Why isn’t Earth perfectly round?
If you had an enormous measuring tape that started at Earth’s center and went to our planet’s highest peak, you wouldn’t be looking at Mount Everest. Rather, the tallest mountain…
Omicron ‘less severe’ than Delta for children ages 4 and younger, study suggests — ScienceDaily
New research from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine suggests that the children younger than age 5 who are infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant have less…
Cryo-EM Reveals How “911” Molecule Helps Repair DNA Damage
The image depicts how the 911 clamp is loaded onto DNA. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Huilin Li, Van Andel Institute When something goes wrong during[{” attribute=””>DNA replication, cells call their…
New separation process for key radiodiagnostic agent reduces radioactive waste
Dr. Tobias Chemnitz at the test facility for Mo-99 production at FRM II at the Garching reserach campus. Credit: Reiner Müller, FRM II / TUM Nuclear medicine uses technetium-99m among…
Rudeness can obfuscate gender bias — ScienceDaily
If you’re an “equal-opportunity jerk,” does that mean you can’t also be sexist? New research shows that many people think so — and consider men to be gender blind when…
Webb Space Telescope To Examine Planetary Leftovers in the Solar System Graveyard
Illustration of the New Horizons space probe in the Kuiper Belt. These icy bodies are the leftovers from planet formation. In the distant reaches of the solar system lies a…
Researchers design a flexible system that sidesteps copper-protein binding
The structure of the designed metalloprotein with selective metal binding sites. Credit: Chung-Jui Yu It may seem counterintuitive to many, but metal ions play a critical role in life, carrying…
Cambrian explosion: First burst of animal evolution altered chemical makeup of Earth’s mantle
The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago saw a huge variety of animals evolve – and also led to carbon being buried in the seabed and ultimately carried into the…
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