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Blue Origin Finally Ready to Launch New Shepard Rocket After Last Year’s Fiery Anomaly
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ private space venture, is ready to fly its New Shepard rocket again after over a year of being grounded. The company this week announced the rocket’s first cargo mission since its booster went up in flames in a liftoff malfunction back in September 2022. On Tuesday, Blue Origin revealed that it’s…
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People With Acne Pay a Steep Social Price, Study Finds
In a survey of more than 1,000 people, researchers found that people were more likely to be treated as pariahs in a variety of ways when their faces were digitally altered to have acne. The stigma associated with acne may be greater for people with severe symptoms and darker skin tones as well, the study…
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Mystery of the Missing ISS Tomato Finally Solved
The curious case of the conspicuously absent cherry tomato has finally been put to rest eight months after the lab-grown edible went missing. In space, no one can hear a tomato scream, even when it’s lost. NASA’s Veg-05 experiment, a project focusing on growing fruits and vegetables in space, experienced an unusual turn of events…
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‘Designer Shrooms’ Could Be Coming as Scientists Unlock Genetics of Magic Mushrooms
Researchers in Australia have analyzed the genomes of over 100 commercial and wild-grown varieties of Psilocybe cubensis, a psychoactive fungi known as the magic mushroom. The findings may eventually help growers develop “designer shrooms” that have their own unique health benefits, the team says. Psychedelic mushrooms have been used by humans for a long time,…