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Boeing Starliner astronauts will return home on a SpaceX Dragon in 2025, NASA confirms

NASA decided Saturday (Aug. 24) to return its two Boeing Starliner astronauts to Earth in February 2025. Their Starliner capsule will come back empty over thruster concerns.

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Being Stranded In Space Could Upend Starliner Astronauts’ Perception of Time

When we are waiting, our desire to know when the wait is over increases how much we think about time.

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Nasa says astronauts stuck in orbit to return with SpaceX crew in February, not on Boeing Starliner

Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since 6 June

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Fauci recovering from West Nile virus

According to a spokesperson, Fauci was hospitalized for six days before being sent home to rest in his own bed

Salon

S.Africa Plan To 'Bomb' Mice That Eat Alabatrosses Alive

Conservationists said Saturday that they plan to bomb a remote South African island with tonnes of pesticide-laced pellets to kill mice that are eating albatrosses and other seabirds alive.

International Business Times

Quantum data beamed alongside 'classical data' in the same fiber-optic connection for the 1st time

Scientists have transmitted quantum and conventional internet data through the same fiber-optic channel, meaning a future quantum internet could theoretically use existing infrastructure.

Space

Is Cold Water Better For Your Dog? A Vet Reveals a Hidden Trick to Get Your Pup to Hydrate

A veterinarian reveals that giving dogs access to water is more important than the water's temperature.

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SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn mission will set altitude record for female astronauts

Two women astronauts on Polaris Dawn are set to break an altitude record set in 1990. Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon will fly higher than any female astronaut before them.

Space

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 125 —Back to Space School 2024

On Episode 125 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq chat about the next 9 months in space.

Space

There’s A Fungus Slowly Devastating Bananas Worldwide and Researchers Aren’t Sure How To Stop It

A fungal pathogen that affects bananas kills the plant by occupying its vascular system, blocking water, and mineral transportation.

Inverse

What happens when your warp drive fails? Scientists have the answer

Scientists have "boldly gone" where no one has gone before, discovering what would happen if a faster-than-light warp drive like the one used in Star Trek were to fail.

Space

How to beat a cockroach infestation

Roaches rapidly develop resistance to store-bought pesticides like Raid, but we can still stop infestations

Salon

Never take health tips from world’s oldest people, say scientists

Scientists still trying to work out why some people live beyond 100, but agree it is best to avoid taking advice from centenarians themselves

The Guardian - UK

Experts Meet As Final Global Plastic Treaty Talks Near

With months until crunch talks on the world's first binding treaty on plastic pollution, experts are meeting in Bangkok to discuss financing options and problematic plastics.

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Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe aged

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Japanese company to deorbit big hunk of space junk by 2029

Japanese space-sustainability company Astroscale just signed a $90 million contract to take a bus-sized rocket stage out of orbit by the end of the decade.

Salon

The backlash to Gus Walz's bullies

Neurodiversity and disability rights advocates condemned the bullying of Gus Walz for being emotional

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StarFOX autonomous satellite swarm could level up space exploration

StarFOX is an autonomous satellite swarm that scientists hope to send beyond our planet's orbit someday.

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3 decades of satellite images show how cities keep getting higher

Cities around the world are now growing upward more than outward, an analysis of three decades of satellite data has found.

Space

What is the 'Offspring' creature in the 'Alien: Romulus' finale?

An explanation of "The Offspring" hybrid monster in "Alien: Romulus."

Space

200 meteorites on Earth traced to 5 craters on Mars

Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium.

Salon

Maybe don't use AI to talk with whales

Scientists are actively trying to converse with whales. But some experts warn we could screw up their culture

Inverse

NASA’s Stranded Astronauts Have Another Major Problem — This Time With Their Spacesuits

Agency officials said the spacesuits that Williams and Wilmore wore inside the Boeing Starliner are not compatible with other spacecraft.

Space

Why the 7 worlds of TRAPPIST-1 waltz in peculiar patterns

The complex history of the orbits of the TRAPPIST-1 planets has been revealed, showing how they interacted with the disk of gas and dust that gave birth to them.

Space

NASA will give a Boeing Starliner update on Aug. 24 and you can watch live

NASA leaders will give an update on Saturday (Aug. 24) to outline their plan on how to return Starliner's astronaut crew to Earth.

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