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Geminids: You need to see 2022’s best meteor shower this week

After a few minor showers, this meteor shower is ready to put on a show. The Geminids are one of the highest-volume meteor showers of the year.

Inverse

How to stop this 'weapon of mass extinction’

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it, Charis Palmer and Chris Bartlett.

Newsroom.co.nz

America's dubious Space Race recruits

Desperate to win the Space Race against the USSR, the US quietly recruited prominent engineers from Nazi Germany

Salon

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This classic sci-fi movie on HBO Max popularized a futuristic technology — can science make it happen?

Could the warp drive really help us boldly go where no man has gone before? Here's what experts say about Star Trek's physics.

Inverse

Nasa's Orion capsule set for splashdown on Earth after Moon mission

Craft will take humans around the moon for its next mission, slated for 2024

Wales Online

Rebel farmers are pushing back on climate action. This is why

It took an existential threat to turn a fifth-generation dairy farmer into an anti-government protester.

Tribune News Service

Nasa’s Orion capsule set for splashdown on Earth after moon mission

A successful return would pave the way for humans to return to the moon.

The Independent UK

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Polar explorer John Rymill's country-town upbringing prepared him to lead an Antarctic expedition

Inspired by the Antarctic heroes of Shackleton, Mawson and Scott, John Rymill set out to lead his own expedition. His "breakthrough" came when he learned from East Greenlanders how to survive in polar conditions, before he headed south.

ABC News

Joseph Kittinger, who set longtime parachute record, dies

The U.S. Air Force pilot who held the record for the highest parachute jump for more than 50 years has died

The Independent UK

UFC star Bryce Mitchell pushes for debate with Joe Rogan on flat earth theory

Top UFC featherweight contender Bryce Mitchell, who is in action on Saturday night, has continued to push for a debate with Joe Rogan on his flat earth conspiracy theory

Daily Mirror

The sixth mass extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us

Species are going extinct at an unusually high rate. Our efforts now will prevent a future too ghastly to contemplate, says Corey Bradshaw

Newsroom.co.nz

Arrakhis: the tiny satellite aiming to reveal what dark matter is made of

The European Space Agency (Esa) recently announced a new mission of its science programme: a small telescope orbiting the Earth dubbed Arrakhis. But although its name is inspired by the sci-fi novel Dune, it will not be looking for sandworms or “spice” on a desert planet.

The Conversation

Unhappy landings: please Avatar, don’t ever visit Earth!

Avatar: The Way of Water may flop, but it’s got to be better than the putative storyline promised for movie five, which is a no-no for any sci-fi franchise

The Guardian - UK

China's new space station opens for business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity

The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can live in orbit.

The Conversation

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Inverse

Surprisingly, TRAPPIST-1's violent flares could make life even more likely

Thanks to a cool physics trick, flares from a nearby star can heat a planet from the inside, powering plate tectonics.

Inverse

How NASCAR helped NASA prepare for Artemis' dangerous splashdown

Engineers designed the NASA Artemis I mission to test many spacefaring phases, such as what astronauts would feel during the Orion capsule's landing.

Tribune News Service

Faye Flam: Let's leave the oil — and the ‘zombie viruses’ — under the permafrost

Vast stretches of permafrost are melting as the Earth’s polar regions warm, thawing ancient viruses and bacteria that had remained frozen for tens of thousands of years. Behind the lurid headlines about “zombie viruses,” there’s some fascinating science — and a warning.

The Independent UK

US keeps eye on China's space activities for potential risks

The head of American military operations in space says the U.S. is closely monitoring Chinese activities that pose a potential risk to its assets in space

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The Conversation

Looking back from beyond the Moon: how views from space have changed the way we see Earth

A photograph taken by NASA’s Orion spacecraft has given us a new perspective on our home planet.

360info

7 ways to help stop a species wipeout

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it.

Reuters

Indigenous people seek stronger land rights at COP15 nature talks

Negotiations on a deal to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030 are woefully behind in addressing the concerns of native people, whose land holds the majority of the world's remaining biodiversity, indigenous advocates told Reuters at the U.N. nature summit in Montreal.

The Guardian - UK

Three ways Cop15 can help save a million species from extinction

In this week’s newsletter: Dismal results from previous conferences mean the stakes are high at this year’s event – this time it simply has to be different

The Conversation

China's Belt and Road infrastructure projects could help or hurt oceans and coasts worldwide

More than one-third of all people in the world live in cities, towns and villages on coasts. They rely on healthy oceans for many things, including food, income, a stable climate and ready connections to nature.

Dynamite News

Researchers Reveal That Meteorites Could Have Given Earth Building Blocks For Life

Researchers have experimentally shown that amino acids could have formed in these early meteorites from reactions driven by gamma rays produced inside the space rocks. Read on for details:

Asharq Al-Awsat

From Shetlands to Azores, Europe's Space Race Takes Off

Projects to develop space centers that can launch satellites into Earth's orbit are sprouting up around Europe, amid the soaring popularity of small rockets and the commercialization of space. By the end of this year, Spanish start-up PLD Space expects to launch its Miura-1 mini-rocket from the El Arenosillo site…

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