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Lidar reveals vast Amazon earthworks built by ancient Aquiry
A lidar survey across 4,497 square kilometers of southwestern Amazonia identified 432 geometric earthworks, 396 of them previously unknown, carved by…
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NASA seeks cooperation with South Korea on lunar base technology
During a Seoul briefing NASA lunar base leaders said they plan technical cooperation with Korea on space communications, crew mobility and landers…
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China tests largest superconducting fusion magnet
China has finished testing the largest superconducting fusion magnet to date, a D-shaped coil about 21 meters long, 12 meters wide and weighing 582…
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Warming pushes Northern Hemisphere lakes past winter ice thresholds
An international study published in PNAS analyzed ice records and air temperatures for 724 Northern Hemisphere lakes from 2000 to 2022 and found that…
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Scientists try methods to revive Okinawa coral
Scientists and conservationists are testing experimental methods to revive Okinawa's coral reefs after a 2024 marine heatwave created large areas of…
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Global fire emissions drop while extreme wildfires rise
Global fire emissions this year are the lowest since satellites began measuring nearly 25 years ago, about half the levels seen in the early 2000s…
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Asteroid impact roasted dinosaurs with superheated dust
The article, by a journalist with prior awards and notable pandemic coverage, reports that dinosaurs were roasted to death in a hellish oven formed…
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VLT finds evidence for companion star orbiting Betelgeuse
A team using the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument in Chile produced the clearest direct image yet that suggests Betelgeuse has a faint…
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NASA fuels Roman Space Telescope ahead of August launch
Technicians completed fueling NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on July 25, loading 290 gallons of hydrazine at the Payload Hazardous…
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UK cuts funding for Jodrell Bank observatory
The Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the UK's largest telescope and a Unesco World Heritage site, has lost its funding after UK Research and…
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Wildfires generate pyrocumulonimbus fire clouds
As France and Spain confront some of their most severe wildfires in recent history, experts have warned of pyrocumulonimbus, or fire-generated…
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NISAR data shows 60 cm surface shift after Venezuela quake
Satellite images from the NASA-ISRO NISAR mission show the ground shifted as much as 60 centimetres near Caracas after the June 24 twin earthquakes…
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Heat dome raises temperatures across western and central US
A heat dome will continue to raise temperatures across large parts of the western and central United States this week, focusing intense heat on the…
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Wildfires scorch parts of France and Spain
Wildfires are burning parts of Spain and France after a Western European summer of record heat waves and low rainfall left grasses and forests dried…
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U.S.-Russian crew returns to Earth from ISS
A Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud‑Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev is scheduled to…
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SpaceX Starship floats in ocean after splashdown
SpaceX's Starship V3 completed a test flight and came down in the ocean, floating intact while transmitting telemetry, according to CEO Elon Musk and…
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Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA Madrid deep space station
A fast-moving wildfire near Madrid forced evacuation and temporarily suspended operations at NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, where…
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WHO warns of rising wildfires across Europe
Wildfires have increased sharply across parts of Europe this summer, with outbreaks in France, Germany, Greece, Spain and Portugal and firefighters…
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SpaceX delays Starship launch and shares fall
SpaceX has postponed a Starship test to Friday after a recent engine aborts and weather-related holds pushed earlier target dates. The company said…
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ETH Zurich finds evidence of active volcanoes on Venus
ETH Zurich scientists led by Taras Gerya and first author Xi Yang published a Nature Geoscience study using a new three-dimensional, high-resolution…
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Girl dies after experimental gene-editing trial in China
A young girl died after receiving an experimental gene-editing treatment in an investigator-initiated clinical trial in China, the article reports…
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Study maps mining threats to forests and biodiversity
Japanese researchers at Tohoku University and NIES combined high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning to create a global map of roughly…
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SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman satellite servicing mission
SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman's mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and three mission extension pods (MEPs) from Cape Canaveral on July 21, starting a…
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HD Hyundai supplies four ITER vacuum vessel sectors
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries attended a Korea-ITER Fusion Day on July 22 at the ITER site in Cadarache to mark completion of the final vacuum vessel…
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