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The second life of the NASA WISE orbital telescope will end on August 8, and in December it will burn up in the atmosphere

On the last day of July 2024, NASA's Orbiting Infrared Telescope WISE (NEOWISE) officially ended its advanced science operations. The…

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Without electricity and liquid nitrogen: scientists have proposed creating a bank of terrestrial biomaterials on the Moon

The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), together with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and other…

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Scientists from the USA have increased the plasma density in a thermonuclear reactor by an order of magnitude, but have not fully understood how

Physicists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison reported a landmark achievement - they were able to increase the plasma…

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Scientists use a microwave to speed up the extraction of lithium from used batteries 100 times

The demand for lithium on Earth is so great that it could soon become a global problem. Its resources on…

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Scientists have turned protein from chicken eggs into the basis for 3D printing of living organs

Scientists from the United States have used protein from chicken eggs to create an ideal biological material for 3D printing…

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“James Webb” proved the discovery of the oldest known galaxy in the Universe

The first of three papers was published in the journal Nature, in which scientists reported obtaining convincing evidence of the…

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European Southern Observatory reveals epic construction of Extremely Large Telescope

Today in the Chilean Atacama Desert, work is in full swing to create the dome of the Extremely Large Telescope…

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Scientists have seen the ins and outs of a gamma-ray burst for the first time—recognized its spectral lines

Supernova explosions, mergers of neutron stars and black holes give rise to the most energetic phenomena in the Universe -…

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Blue light from a smartphone screen has a detrimental effect on the skin, scientists have found

Four years ago, the whole world was captured by the fear of the blue light of gadget screens. The reason…

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“James Webb” found signs of a subsurface ocean on Ariel, a moon of Uranus

In four billion years, humanity will have to seek salvation on the outskirts of the solar system from the Sun,…

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