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NASA's newest satellite provides crucial data on climate change trends

WPTV 20 Apr 2024
Nelson, along with two officials from NASA's Earth Science division, showed some of the first pictures from the agency's PACE satellite ... Germain, the director of NASA Earth Science.
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Mutant Bacteria Discovered Aboard International Space Station

Futurism 20 Apr 2024
"Study findings indicate that under stress, the ISS isolated strains were mutated and became genetically and functionally distinct compared to their Earth counterparts," the press release reads.
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Volcano Watch: Magnetics, magma, and monitoring: new technology for old questions

West Hawaii Today 20 Apr 2024
Earth’s magnetic field surrounds us every second of the day, everywhere on the planet ... But can we harness the magnetic field to forecast volcanic activity? Emerging technology in the field of “quantum” science may aid us in doing so.
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AI for Earth: How NASA's artificial intelligence and open science efforts combat climate change

Phys Dot Org 19 Apr 2024
Covering all aspects of Earth science would take several foundation models trained on different types of datasets ... and climate foundation models will enable leaps in Earth science like never before.
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Watch how NASA plans to land a car-sized drone on Titan

Digital Trends 19 Apr 2024
Titan bears some similarities to the very early Earth and so it’s hoped that science research carried out by the drone will help scientists to learn more about how life started on our planet.
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Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even ...

Brainpickings 19 Apr 2024
The tides bridge the earthly and the cosmic, science and symbol ... The Moon, born of the body of the Earth billions of years ago, is drifting away at more than half the rate at which a child grows ... was a full six feet closer to the earth.
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Study recommends distributed acoustic sensing to detect moonquakes

The Engineer 19 Apr 2024
... occur deeper could be caused by Earth's gravitational pull, and others are caused by the Moon slowly cooling and contracting over time ... The research is detailed in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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Ryan Gosling and Miller/Lord’s Project Hail Mary could be the sci-fi event of 2026

Engadget 19 Apr 2024
Do you like rip-roaring science fiction books? Do you like movies? Then you are in for a treat in, well, two years ... It’s more fantastical than The Martian, but still filled with the same science-based solutions to massive life-or-death problems.
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Your guide to the week ahead – family fun for the week of April 19

Greenville News 19 Apr 2024
A Fairy Tale Ball is at 10 a.m ... Earth Day is 1.30 – 5 p.m. April 19 at Roper Mountain Science Center ... Starry Nights programs are at Roper Mountain Science Center April 19 ... – 2 p.m ... Free Family Saturday is April 20 at the Spartanburg Science Center.
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Update: China awards medals to Shenzhou-16 astronauts

Xinhua 19 Apr 2024
The class from China's space station was delivered by the Shenzhou-16 astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao to students on Earth ... The trio returned to Earth safely on Oct.
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China awards medals to Shenzhou-16 astronauts

People Daily 19 Apr 2024
During their stay, they performed extravehicular activities once, delivered a live class from the space station, and conducted a series of space-science experiments and in-orbit payload experiments. The trio returned to Earth safely on Oct. 31, 2023 ... .
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Pioneering AI in Earth Sciences: DERI’s Professor Cédric John (Queen Mary, University of London)

Public Technologies 19 Apr 2024
He will deliver an inaugural lecturetitled "Data-Driven Earth Sciences ... Professor John's research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, deep learning, and Earth Sciences.
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