India Declares Itself a ‘Space Power’ After Shooting Down Its Own Satellite
It’s doubtful anything meaningful will be done in the near term to curb the ongoing weaponisation of space.
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It’s doubtful anything meaningful will be done in the near term to curb the ongoing weaponisation of space.
This is a crucial step in humanity’s search for an Earth-like, potentially habitable exoplanet.
It’s an impressive achievement, but there are still plenty of unknowns to consider.
Days before the planned walk, a spacesuit sizing problem means one of the female astronauts will be replaced by a man.
Excitement for bilayer graphene stems from the physics that underlies it, not the promise that it will become useful in tech.
The elemental isotopes found in these rocks can reveal events in the Solar System’s past.
For research, obvs.
Though dramatic, these surface features don’t last for very long, clearing up after several years.
“[This] changes our picture of what is within the range of possibility for these large animals and expands and understanding of [their] biology."
These findings upturn conventional thinking about the links between the early development of religion and social organisation.
An astrolabe is like an old compass, in case you're wondering.
101 species so far, over half of which have never been described before.
False alarm.
One step closer to explaining where all the antimatter has disappeared to.
This new research adds complexity to our understanding of the ways animals communicate.
It's an important component of DUNE (not that Dune).
