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WASHINGTON — NASA and Roscosmos have extended a seat barter agreement for flights to the International Space Station into 2027 that will feature longer Soyuz missions to the station. NASA announced April 3 that astronaut Chris Williams had been assigned to the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft scheduled to launch to the ISS in November, joining Roscosmos
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Protestors gathered in March outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Trump administration aims to cut funding for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by more than $1.6 billion relative to last year, according to an internal budget document obtained by New Scientist. The cuts would
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A cup made from transparent paperboard Noriyuki Isobe (JAMSTEC) A waterproof, plant-based material that degrades quickly in the ocean could offer a sustainable alternative to single-use plastics in cups and straws. Transparent paperboard is, like cellophane, made from cellulose, the molecule that makes up plant cell walls. Because of the coagulant chemicals used in cellophane’s
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COLORADO SPRINGS — The U.S. Space Force’s procurement arm announced a new intelligence-sharing program aimed at warning commercial satellite operators about potential threats to their orbital assets. The Space Systems Command said the new program, called “Orbital Watch,” will distribute unclassified threat data to more than 900 space companies registered through the command’s “Front Door”
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Some physicists are questioning the idea of space-time SAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Physicists of the 19th century assumed that space was distinct from time – and two researchers now suspect they were correct to do so. Their conclusion, which comes from considering the behaviour of qubits, questions the now-dominant idea that four-dimensional space-time is the fundamental
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