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Today's Earth approach for 2020 FV4 asteroid! NASA records 92-foot rock at 29350 km/h

The Asteroid 2020 FV4 is being tracked towards Earth. It could be very close to Earth as soon as today.

SCIENCE News by Gregory Nicola on March 14, 2023

A huge simulation shows what we can expect from NASA’s next powerful space telescope

Continue reading on Devdiscourse: Huge simulated Survey shows what we can expect of NASA's next powerful satellite telescope

SCIENCE News by Carmen Schmidt on March 13, 2023

After a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station, the Astronaut Crew returns home

The Crew-5 crew of astronauts from the International Space Station began their return journey home Saturday morning. This marked the end to a five-month-long stay in space.

SCIENCE News by Ilsa Weiß on March 13, 2023

A superconductor at room temperature that operates under low pressure

ScientiFix is our weekly feature that summarizes the top global science stories and links to their sources.

SCIENCE News by Carmen Schmidt on March 13, 2023

A New Material Using Many Interconnected Microscale Knots

Caltech engineers have created a new material using highly interconnected microscale knots. This is the latest innovation in nano- or micro-architected materials.

SCIENCE News by Chia Kai Wen on March 12, 2023

Lignin modification by anaerobes

Anaerobic microorganisms can modify lignin, which is a partially aromatic and recalcitrant polymer found in plant cell wall walls, we show. This discovery challenges the long-held belief that all biological processes of lignin degrading are identical

SCIENCE News by Tilla Schulze on March 12, 2023

Astronomers discover the most massive objects in all of the universe by searching rare galaxy with three black holes

Scientists witnessed as a three-quasar structure merged in a simulation of the universe to create a black hole 300 million times larger than the sun.

SCIENCE News by Dmitrios Predas on March 12, 2023

A new comet discovered in 2024 could be brighter that Venus

C/2023A3 hasn’t been on Earth for over 80,000 years. It may be more visible than stars and Venus when it returns.

SCIENCE News by Suzan Goodman on March 12, 2023

An ancient fossil that looks like a platypus could help rewrite the history and evolution of egg-laying mammals

A fossil of a relative of platypus Patagorhynchus pascuali, a 70-million-year-old platypus, was found in South America. It shows that egg-laying mammals evolved across more than one continent.

SCIENCE News by Tee Hui Shan on March 12, 2023

New study on monkeys using stone tools raises questions about evolution

Modern-day monkeys in Thailand create stone artifacts that are uncannily like those made by early humans. This challenges the established narrative about human cultural evolution. Science Advances published a new study on Friday that suggests this po

SCIENCE News by Chia Kai Wen on March 12, 2023