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3 driving myths too many people believe 0

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NASA Awards Contract for Johnson Space Center Infrastructure 0

NASA has selected seven companies to provide construction, revitalization, and infrastructure improvements at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Johnson Space Center Multiple Award Construction Contract supports up to $300 million in upgrades to mission‑support facilities, utilities, and equipment across the NASA Johnson campus. All funds must be obligated by Sept. 30, 2026.

Science sleuths uncover more than 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogue 0
- SCIENCE
- May 29, 2026
Y-shaped biomolecules called antibodies are scientific workhorse tools that researchers use to bind to and track specific proteins.Credit: Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library Catalogue entries for more than 100 antibodies sold by the research services and supply company Thermo Fisher Scientific contain images that have apparently been manipulated, according to a pair of researchers who specialize
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Kelsey Pfendler is trying to become the youngest woman to row solo from California to Hawaii 0
- Conservation, Environment, Ocean, SCIENCE
- May 28, 2026
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NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety 0
- Ames Earth Science Division, Ames Research Center, Ames Research Center's Science Directorate, Earth Science, Earth Science Division, Earth Science Technology Office, Langley Research Center, SCIENCE, Wildfires, Wildland Fire Management
- May 27, 2026
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also provide researchers with important data on what happens beneath the canopy during a fire. In April, researchers and
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