applied sciences
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NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Huge Rumble on Mars
NASA’s Insight Mars lander recorded a magnitude 5 quake on the Red Planet last week, the largest such rumble ever observed on another world.
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Wonderfully Over-Engineered Kitchen Timer Makes Any Chef Look as Cool as Guy Fieri
It isn’t a fear of failure, or of accidentally giving dinner guests food poisoning, that keeps people from learning to cook. It’s obviously a lack of kitchen tools that make you feel like a futuristic anime hero wielding a cool-looking blaster. Well, one maker has solved that problem by creating the most wonderfully over-engineered kitchen…
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Why Some Scientists Are Sceptical of Space Command’s ‘Interstellar’ Meteor Claims
A new U.S. Space Command memo says that a meteor that fell to Earth in 2014 came from interstellar space. That would make it the first known interstellar object in our solar system, preceding ‘Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped object that first appeared in 2017 and seemed to come from another star system. But some scientists aren’t…
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How the Webb Space Telescope Will Support the Search for Alien Life
Astronomers have long questioned whether Earth-like planets exist elsewhere in the universe and if they harbour life. So far, answers have only come from science fiction universes rather than our own. NASA’s latest observatory, the Webb Space Telescope, will take us one step closer to the answer, offering an unprecedented look into rocky worlds orbiting…