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NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following the ...
NASA’s Lucy Gears Up for a Thrilling Close Encounter With a Mysterious Space Relic
NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...
An evolutionary algorithmic phase transition 2.6 billion years ago may have sparked the emergence of eukaryotic cells
An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...
This AI Founder Has Unseated Taylor Swift As The World’s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire
Lucy Guo, the 30-year-old cofounder of Scale AI, has become the youngest self-made woman billionaire by holding onto her stake long after leaving the company.
Could humanity be extinct within 10,000 years? A new book is the wake up call our species needs
In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...
Climate Change And Human Activity Threaten Plant Diversity-Can Ancient Pollen Help Predict The Future?
Maps of spatial patterns of angiosperm diversity (PD (a), adapted from (Lu et al., 2018)) versus palynological diversity indices S (b), d (c), Dr ...
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Set For Second Encounter With Primitive Asteroid This Week
The Lucy spacecraft is heading for another encounter with a main belt asteroid, NASA said on Tuesday. The probe will fly by Donaldjohanson next week as a "dress rehearsal" before the start of its main ...