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Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen stepping down from full-time role - NBC News
science 2026/07/07 14:08:11

Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen stepping down from full-time role - NBC News

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen announced Monday that he is stepping down from his full-time role as an astronaut, months after flying around the moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission.

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Evidence of elusive high-energy gravitons in quantum Hall systems - Phys.org
science 2026/07/07 14:00:08

Evidence of elusive high-energy gravitons in quantum Hall systems - Phys.org

Electrons, negatively charged particles, sometimes coordinate their movements in ways that produce certain collective excitations referred to as quasiparticles. One case in which this occurs is the quantum Hall effect, a phenomenon that emerges when electrons…

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I quit my job to travel with my dad. He died 10 days later. - Business Insider
science 2026/07/07 13:03:06

I quit my job to travel with my dad. He died 10 days later. - Business Insider

I planned to spend a year traveling with my father after my mother’s death. Instead, I became his next of kin and caregiver.

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Gold isn’t rare on Earth — it’s buried 3,000 kilometres too deep to reach. In 2025, scientists found that more than 99.999% of the planet’s precious metals are locked in the core, while Hawaiian lava carries traces suggesting some of that core material is slowly l - Space Daily
science 2026/07/07 12:54:43

Gold isn’t rare on Earth — it’s buried 3,000 kilometres too deep to reach. In 2025, scientists found that more than 99.999% of the planet’s precious metals are locked in the core, while Hawaiian lava carries traces suggesting some of that core material is slowly l - Space Daily

Geochemists at the University of Göttingen have found chemical evidence that material from Earth’s core is mixing into the mantle plume that feeds Hawaii’s

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We tend to think of Jupiter as permanently giant, but a 2025 study found it used to be twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times more powerful, and it is still quietly shrinking by about 2 centimetres every year - Space Daily
science 2026/07/07 12:37:06

We tend to think of Jupiter as permanently giant, but a 2025 study found it used to be twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times more powerful, and it is still quietly shrinking by about 2 centimetres every year - Space Daily

Jupiter was roughly twice its current size, and by some estimates as much as two and a half times, around 3.8 million years after the solar system’s first

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50 Years Later, NASA's Voyager Probe Is Reaching A Big Milestone For Space Travel - bgr.com
science 2026/07/07 12:17:00

50 Years Later, NASA's Voyager Probe Is Reaching A Big Milestone For Space Travel - bgr.com

In November of 2026, the Voyager 1 space probe will officially be one light-day from Earth, meaning all communications will take 48 hours round trip.

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