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Research investigates radio emission of the rotating radio transient RRAT J1854+0306

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have investigated radio emission from a rotating radio transient known as RRAT J1854+0306. Results of the study, published April 15 on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the properties of this transient.

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China’s Shenzhou-18 mission docks with space station

A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China’s Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing’s space program that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030.

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Is this evidence that Dragons exist? Man films giant creature resembling a Dragon

YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/R6vWE8lXVvI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1

Get ready people, Dragons are coming. Sort of.

A man in China filmed –ironically– a giant creature resembling what many believe is a Dragon near the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. But after researching a bit more we found some very interesting things.

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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications demonstration transmits data over 140 million miles

Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records. While the asteroid-bound spacecraft doesn’t rely on optical communications to send data, the new technology has proven that it’s up to the task. After interfacing with the Psyche’s radio frequency transmitter, the laser communications demo sent a copy […]

NASA astronauts arrive for Boeing’s first human spaceflight

The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff.

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Quasi-2D spin-Peierls transition through interstitial anionic electrons in K(NH₃)₂

In a paper published in Science Bulletin, a Chinese team of scientists predicts a novel electride K(NH3)2, with interstitial electrons distributed at cages formed by six ammonia molecules and forming a quasi-2D triangular lattice. They have revealed that this material undergoes a spin-Peierls phase transition under moderate pressures.

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Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary asteroid system.

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TESS finds its first rogue planet

Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Astronomers using TESS think they are made a rather surprising discovery; their first free-floating—or rogue—planet. The planet was discovered using gravitational microlensing where the planet passed in front of a […]

Colo. sheriff reverses decision to euthanize K-9 after community raises concerns

Denver Sheriff’s Department K-9 Riggs will be rehomed, not euthanized, following behavior issues, such as snapping at his handler’s family

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Texas officer dies days after being shot by suspect

Corpus Christi Officer Kyle Hicks was shot while responding to reports of gunfire; his assailant was fatally shot by other officers at the scene

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The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this decade to 2040.

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China launches 3-member crew to its space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon by 2030

China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030.

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IRIS beamline at BESSY II gets a new nanospectroscopy end station

The IRIS infrared beamline at the BESSY II storage ring now offers a fourth option for characterizing materials, cells and even molecules on different length scales. The team has extended the IRIS beamline with an end station for nanospectroscopy and nanoimaging that enables spatial resolutions down to below 30 nanometers. The instrument is also available […]

BWC: Man wounds Minn. LEOs with rifle before fatal OIS

A man emerged from a home and shot at officers trying to serve an arrest warrant, leaving one officer wounded by gunfire and another injured by shrapnel

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First experimental proof for brain-like computer with water and salt

Theoretical physicists at Utrecht University, together with experimental physicists at Sogang University in South Korea, have succeeded in building an artificial synapse. This synapse works with water and salt and provides the first evidence that a system using the same medium as our brains can process complex information.

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