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A team of ETH researchers headed by Athina Anastasaki were successful in breaking down plastic into its molecular building blocks and recovering over 90% of them. This is the first step towards genui… [+5141 chars]
China's first Mars orbiter is keeping tabs on multiple robots on the Red Planet's surface. The Tianwen 1 orbiter recently captured photos of the Zhurong rover, its partner on the Tianwen 1 Mars miss… [+3341 chars]
In the coming days a Russian Soyuz capsule is scheduled to leave the International Space Station for Earth, bringing home three personnel who have completed months of duties on the facility. Two of … [+4473 chars]
A tiny problem Scientists can grow nanocrystals out of many different materials: metals, semiconductors, and magnets will each yield different properties. But the trouble was that whenever they trie… [+3333 chars]
Still image from a Thesan simulation showing the universe 251 million years after the Big Bang. The orange halos represent the burst of radiation, or light, outpouring from early galaxies. Credit: Th… [+5509 chars]
Astronomers have detected a cloud of dust the size of a whole star, 330 light-years away. Its cause? A colossal smash-up between two exoplanets that were still just forming. We know this because ast… [+5150 chars]
Deep-sea creatures come in all shapes and sizes. But whether these ocean dwellers look downright frightening or perfectly adorable, they never fail to be interesting. Deep-sea creatures live in a com… [+1930 chars]
MYSTERIOUS: Mysterious high-frequency waves swirling on the sun are moving at speeds that ‘defy explanation A team from New York University’s Abu Dhabi Center for Space Science analyzed 25 years of … [+3238 chars]
The Arctic is warming along with the rest of the planet, and as this is happening, its permafrostperennially frozen arctic soil that holds a lot of trapped organic matter from dead plantsis thawing. … [+3806 chars]
On Scotlands west coast is the Firth of Clyde, a large saltwater inlet home to thousands of harbor porpoisesand one dolphin named Kylie. Kylie hasnt been observed with other common dolphins (Delphin… [+8665 chars]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The next four-person crew set to fly to the International Space Station will hitch a ride on a SpaceX Crew Dragon named "Freedom." NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren shared the new c… [+859 chars]