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The Planet Haul That Changes Everything.
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The Planet Haul That Changes Everything.

NASA's planet hunting telescope has been busy. A new study has just sifted through the light of over 83 million stars and emerged with more than 11,000 potential worlds, including a confirmed giant planet orbiting a distant star. The results don't just add to our catalogue of planets. They fundamentally change where we look for them.

Mining the Solar System to Build a New World
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Mining the Solar System to Build a New World

If humans are ever going to live permanently on Mars, someone is going to have to work out where all the raw materials, the food, they oxygen or the material for the structures to name just a few. A new study has tackled that unglamorous but absolutely critical question and the answer involves robots, asteroids, and one of the most complex supply chains ever designed.

Scientists Discover Plants “Scream” – We Just Couldn’t Hear Them Until Now
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Scientists Discover Plants “Scream” – We Just Couldn’t Hear Them Until Now

Scientists have discovered that many plants emit faint ultrasonic clicks when distressed. It sounds like something out of a dark children’s story. Hurt a plant, and it “screams.” Not in a way humans can hear, but in a newly documented study, stressed plants were found to release bursts of ultrasonic sound that resemble faint pops [...]

Another Instrument Shut Down on Voyager 1 to Extend its Interstellar Mission
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Another Instrument Shut Down on Voyager 1 to Extend its Interstellar Mission

On April 17th, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or LECP. The nuclear-powered spacecraft is running low on power, and turning off the LECP is considered the best way to keep humanity's first interstellar explorer going.

Antarctica's sea ice suddenly started shrinking a decade ago — and deep-diving robots are revealing why
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Antarctica's sea ice suddenly started shrinking a decade ago — and deep-diving robots are revealing why

A decade ago, southern sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists say the culprit was a "very violent release" of deep, pent-up heat.