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The entire quantum Universe exists inside a single atom

Physicists use a 350-year-old theorem to reveal new properties of light waves Since the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens first debated the nature of light, scientists have been puzzling over whether light is best viewed as a wave or a particle—or perhaps, at the quantum level, even both at once. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have ...

John Hopkins - alternative views on telomeres!

Long Telomeres, the Endcaps on DNA, Not the Fountain of Youth Once Thought — Scientists May Now Know Why Long Telomeres, the Endcaps on DNA, Not the Fountain of Youth Once Thought — Scientists May Now Know Why 05/04/2023 Credit: Getty Images In a study of 17 people from five families, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found that ultra-lengthy DNA endcaps called telomeres fail to provide the...

Goonhilly – the station supporting Nasa’s Artemis moon mission from Cornwall History-rich communcation centre in Lizard peninsula will track the rocket using its Merlin antenna

Update Artemis I Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast) has been scrubbed. Engineers collecting data on the reasons why. The team was unable to get past an engineer bleed. The temperature was not correct. Launch director has scrubbed. Earliest next launch September 2nd. But awaiting determination of the forward plan.

Link for todays Artemis I Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast)

ESA Web TV Don’t miss the launch of the Artemis I spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two-hour launch window starts at 14:33 CEST. The rocket will send an uncrewed spacecraft into a translunar orbit that will allow the spacecraft to perform a flyby of the Moon and propel itself 70 000 km...

Metaverse: Augmented reality pioneer warns it could be far worse than social media If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.

The entire human genome has (finally) been sequenced Researchers have finally sequenced the complete human genome, filling the gaps in the Human Genome Project’s historic first draft.

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More than 20,000 parts and components are used to build each European Service Module, ranging from electrical equipment to engines, solar panels, fuel tanks and life support supplies for the astronauts. 👩‍🚀
This includes approximately 12 kilometres of cables! 🔌

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Mars and Moon Dust can be Turned Into Geopolymer Cement. Good Enough for Landing Pads and Other Structures Materials science has long taken the lead in space exploration research, and it seems to have been getting even more attention than usual lately. That is especially true for building materials. NASA has funded several new research programs to develop new building materials that can do everything fro...

A new way to Make Oxygen on Mars: Using Plasma There’s more than one way to produce oxygen on Mars. Or at least there is now. After the success of the MOXIE experiment that rode along with Perseverance to the red planet in 2021, another idea to produce one of the most useful gases in the universe has been experimentally proven by an internatio...

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Mark Zuckerberg promises metaverse graphics won't be as bad as his previous selfie Mark Zuckerberg shared another post on Instagram stating that Meta is actually working on the graphics, which seemed literally "poor" in the first image.

Study Finds Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Is Becoming More Unstable As It Melts Missing Content

Huge milestone as human subject wears augmented reality contact lens for first time For the first time, an augmented reality contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. It has about 30x the pixel density of an iPhone.