Plastic pollution is out of control. Each year, more than 8 million tonnes of synthetic polymers enter the ocean, and while some sinks to the floor, returns to the shore, or collects in the...
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A Hunt For Voyager 1’s Old Manuals Revealed The Source of Its Garbled Messages : ScienceAlert
In May, NASA scientists said the Voyager 1 spacecraft was sending back inaccurate data from its attitude-control system [AACS]. In order to find a fix, engineers dug through decades-old manuals. The Voyager team solved...
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An Unexpected Source Might Be Helping The Universe Glow More Than It Should : ScienceAlert
When the New Horizons probe reached the outer dark of the Solar System, out past Pluto, its instruments picked up something strange. Very, very faintly, the space between the stars was glowing with optical...
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Earth’s Oxygen Came From an Unexpectedly Deep And Hot Source, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
The amount of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere makes it a habitable planet. Twenty-one percent of the atmosphere consists of this life-giving element. But in the deep past – as far back as the...
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