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Russian Scientists Test Plasma Engine That Could Cut Mars Travel to About 30 Days - Yahoo! Tech
science 2026/01/28 21:30:21

Russian Scientists Test Plasma Engine That Could Cut Mars Travel to About 30 Days - Yahoo! Tech

Russia is testing a plasma engine prototype designed to slash Mars travel time to just 60 days. Developed by Rosatom’s Troitsk Institute, the system uses…

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Beyond polymers: New state-of-the-art 3D micro and nanofabrication technique overcomes material limitations - Phys.org
science 2026/01/28 21:19:34

Beyond polymers: New state-of-the-art 3D micro and nanofabrication technique overcomes material limitations - Phys.org

Building things so small that they are smaller than the width of a human hair was previously achieved by using a method called two-photon polymerization, also known as 2PP—today’s state-of-the-art in 3D micro- and nanofabrication. Tiny sculptures such as a mi…

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New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China - CBS News
science 2026/01/28 20:21:40

New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China - CBS News

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet’s history.

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430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools from Greece are the oldest on record — and they predate modern humans - Live Science
science 2026/01/28 20:13:01

430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools from Greece are the oldest on record — and they predate modern humans - Live Science

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

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Constraints on axion dark matter by distributed intercity quantum sensors - Nature
science 2026/01/28 20:03:45

Constraints on axion dark matter by distributed intercity quantum sensors - Nature

Amplification and optimal noise filtering in hyperpolarized noble-gas spins of observations from distributed intercity quantum sensors monitoring for unexpected transient rotations of polarized spins set parameter range constraints in the search for axion dar…

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Scientists discover the possible secret blueprint of the human body in a 700-million-year-old brainless creature... and it was at the bottom of the sea - Earth.com
science 2026/01/28 19:25:15

Scientists discover the possible secret blueprint of the human body in a 700-million-year-old brainless creature... and it was at the bottom of the sea - Earth.com

You don’t have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

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