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IN A NUTSHELL 🌕 Chinese researchers have developed a solar-powered device to extract water, oxygen, and fuel from the Moon’s regolith. 🔬 The device utilizes sunlight and heat to facilitate reactions between lunar soil and carbon dioxide. 🚀 This innovation could significantly aid in establishing long-term lunar colonies by providing essential resources. 🛠 Researchers face challenges such as extreme temperature …

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Lake Iro, Chad [10.10150087, 19.41766527] What’s in the photo? Sunlight reflecting off the lake and the surrounding river Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS) When was it taken? Dec. 21, 2024 This stunning astronaut photo shows a rare phenomenon, known as a “sunglint”, transforming a potential meteor …

Scientists Finally Identify Killer Microbe Behind ‘Terrifying’ Sea Star Disease  The New York Times Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease  Nature Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars  Yahoo Home Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of starfish that turn to goo  The Washington Post Billions of West …

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By STACY LIBERATORE, U.S. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Scientists have warned that Earth’s rotation is set to speed up on Tuesday, resulting in one of the shortest days in recorded history.  The change, driven by the moon’s gravitational pull, will cause the planet to spin slightly faster at its poles, shaving 1.25 milliseconds off the usual 24-hour day.  While the …

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The first crew slated to fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon early next year entered their spacecraft for a multi-day training at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew donned their spacesuits July 31 and boarded Orion to train and experience some of the conditions they can expect on their mission. NASA …

Credit: Ken Zirkel,the Museum of Natural History By the time “Lucy” took her final steps across the Ethiopian landscape 3 million years ago, her kind may have been living in a social world far more combative than we once imagined. A new study reveals that males of Australopithecus afarensis — the species that includes the famous fossil — were dramatically …

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Scientists from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic explosions since the Big Bang. Extreme nuclear transients (ENTs) occur when massive stars several times larger than our Sun are torn apart by supermassive black holes. ENTs shine with intense luminosity, much brighter than supernovae, which originate from the violent death of massive stars. …