Enlarge (credit: Person-with-No Name) The Arctic Ocean is many things. Cold and icy come to mind, of course, but “salty” should as well—it’s an ocean,
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SpaceX will launch a NASA mission to study the history of the universe
One of NASA’s more important science missions now has a ride. The agency has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch its SPHEREx astrophysics project. The
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FDA now reviewing a third COVID vaccine, this one made by Johnson & Johnson
Enlarge / The head office of Janssen pharmaceutical company on February 5, 2021 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The American mother company of Janssen, Johnson &
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Rocket Report: SpaceX sets new reuse record, Astra valued at $2.1 billion
Enlarge / Eighteenth SpaceX Starlink mission streaks to orbit from the Space Coast of Florida on Thursday, February 4. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann / Ars Technica)
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Lost Alaskan Indigenous fort rediscovered after 200 years
Enlarge / This interpretive sign at the presumed “fort clearing” includes a reconstruction of what the fort probably looked like in 1804. (credit: National Park
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Signs that SARS-CoV-2 is evolving to avoid immune responses
Enlarge / The structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. (credit: University of Arkansas) Over the summer, you could almost hear a sigh of relief rising
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