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Alien life could lurk on Mars beneath protective ice, study suggests

'Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in which to hunt for alien life.

NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper had a rocky road to space. How it switched rockets and more to launch to Jupiter

NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper had a rocky road to space. How it switched rockets and more to launch to Jupiter

NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper probe overcame huge obstacles, including a switch to an entirely different rocket, to launch toward Jupiter. Here's how it happened.

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches NASA's Europa Clipper probe to explore icy Jupiter ocean moon (video)

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches NASA's Europa Clipper probe to explore icy Jupiter ocean moon (video)

Europa Clipper launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, kicking off a highly anticipated astrobiology mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa.

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Europa Clipper to blast off on mission to find out if Jupiter moon may hold life

$5bn Nasa mission will assess whether ice-covered moon that is thought to have twice Earth’s water is habitable

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Breast cancer awareness method: Debunking myths about mammograms and saving lives

Breast cancer is a growing concern in India, and globally. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) identifies it as the most common cancer among women in our country. Worryingly, over the past decade, experts have observed and reported an alarming rise in breast cancer afflicting younger women, between the…

The Times of India

Mammograms and breast cancer treatment: Separating facts from myths

Breast cancer is a growing concern in India, and globally. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) identifies it as the most common cancer among women in our country. Worryingly, over the past decade, experts have observed and reported an alarming rise in breast cancer afflicting younger women, between the…

The Times of India

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa

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'Unspeakable Horror': The Attacks On Hiroshima And Nagasaki

'Unspeakable Horror': The Attacks On Hiroshima And Nagasaki

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors who are advocating for "a world free of nuclear weapons".

International Business Times

The Office star Jenna Fischer shares emotional post after ‘aggressive’ breast cancer diagnosis

The Office star Jenna Fischer shares emotional post after ‘aggressive’ breast cancer diagnosis

Fischer told followers she is fortunately now cancer free after completing ‘surgery, chemotherapy and radiation’

The Independent UK

A geomagnetic storm has hit Earth – a space scientist explains what causes them

A geomagnetic storm has hit Earth – a space scientist explains what causes them

A geomagnetic storm lit up the night sky in parts of the US during the first weekend in October. South Africa’s National Space Agency (Sansa) told reporters that the storm had originated from a solar flare “that erupted from sunspot 3842 on October 3”. It said this was the strongest…

The Conversation

Kazakhs Approve Plan For First Nuclear Power Plant

Kazakhs Approve Plan For First Nuclear Power Plant

Kazakhstan has approved a plan to build its first nuclear power station in a referendum, overcoming lingering resentment over massive radiation exposure from Soviet-era nuclear tests.

International Business Times

What Really Happens When You Try to Tan Away Your Acne

What Really Happens When You Try to Tan Away Your Acne

Studies in human skin cells have also shown some potential benefits from UVB rays – including killing Propionibacterium acnes; the bacterium thought to be responsible for acne.

A Retired Cold War Spy Plane Discovered Something Really Weird About Thunderstorms

A Retired Cold War Spy Plane Discovered Something Really Weird About Thunderstorms

Out of 10 thunderstorms the aircraft flew over, 9 of them were alight with gamma rays, suggesting that large thunderstorms churn up gamma rays shockingly often.

Did dark matter help black holes grow to monster sizes in the infant cosmos?

Did dark matter help black holes grow to monster sizes in the infant cosmos?

Could dark matter decay have given massive clouds of hydrogen gas the time they needed to birth supermassive black holes seen by the James Webb Space Telescope?

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Newest Starlink satellites are leaking even more radiation than their predecessors — and could soon disrupt astronomy

A new study reveals that Generation 2 Starlink satellites are leaking up to 30 times more radio waves than their predecessors. If SpaceX continues to deploy the newer versions as planned, we could reach an "inflection point" where astronomers can no longer properly study the cosmos, researchers warn.

The Conversation

TikTok ‘sunburning’ hack won’t heal your acne – but it may put you at risk of skin cancer

Social media is full of questionable advice. But one of the latest skincare hacks some users are sharing online is seriously worrying. Some content creators on TikTok are claiming that getting a sunburn or spending time in a tanning bed will help get rid of acne.

The Conversation

The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests – so is the theory broken?

Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we could explain, that cosmologists are increasingly struggling to make sense of.

A Weirdly Large Object In Our Asteroid Belt Could Actually Be Habitable

The dwarf planet’s active geology was mixing up organic molecules pretty recently in its past.

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How black-hole-powered quasars killed off neighboring galaxies in the early universe

Using the Dark Energy Camera, astronomers discovered that black-hole-powered quasars in the early universe lived in dense neighborhoods, but were "bad neighbors."

The Independent UK

Can nuclear blasts protect Earth from incoming asteroids? Scientists use X-rays in first successful test

Scientists used the most powerful laboratory source of radiation in the world to mimic the threat

Orion spacecraft can shield Artemis astronauts from deep-space radiation, study shows

Data from NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has provided valuable space radiation measurements, which validate spacecraft performance and will help guide deep-space human spaceflight.

X-rays from a nuclear explosion could redirect an asteroid

Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, but by showering it with X-ray radiation.

The Guardian - UK

Nuclear blast could save Earth from large asteroid, scientists say

US physicists show how immense pulse of radiation could vaporise the side of asteroid and nudge it off course

The Guardian - UK

Risk of lung cancer from radiotherapy doubles for breast cancer patients who smoke

Non-smokers found to have 1% chance of treatment leading to disease compared with between 2% and 6% for smokers

The Guardian - US

Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to restart to power Microsoft AI operations

Pennsylvania plant was site of most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history in 1979

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