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Follow Along With NASA’s First Deep Space Biology Experiment
BioSentinel, a first-of-its-kind experiment from NASA, is carrying living organisms over 1.6 million kilometres into deep space to test the long-term effects of cosmic radiation on living things — in this case, yeast. NASA has unveiled a new real-time visualisation tool so the public can follow along with BioSentinel’s progress.
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Jupiter’s Moon Io Is Glowing With Volcanoes in New Image From NASA Probe
The latest image from NASA’s Juno mission reveals Jupiter’s moon Io in infrared, showing the volcanic hotspots that pepper its surface and fuel Jupiter’s auroras.
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Private Space Firm Blows up Space Station Module and That’s a Good Thing
Private space company Sierra Space announced yesterday that it successfully completed a stress test last month on an in-development astronaut habitat — a test that involved the pumping of gas into the inflatable module until it blew apart. This is the second successful test, following one earlier this year in July.
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The Aussie Chip Innovation That’s ‘Light Years Ahead’
Researchers have developed a new chip method for cutting through wanted and unwanted data called the fractional delay method.