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NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station – NASA 0
- Commercial Crew, International Space Station (ISS), SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 18, 2026
To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract, this change brings the total missions for SpaceX to 17 and helps NASA to maintain access to the space station with two unique
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Buying an iPhone is easy now, but people were sleeping on sidewalks for the first model 0
- Gear, Phones, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 18, 2026
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › The iPhone 18 Pro officially hits store shelves today (September 18). You could likely pop into an Apple store or other retailer and grab one on your way home from work if you didn’t already pre-order
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NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy – NASA Science 0
- Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Galaxies, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Spiral Galaxies, The Universe
- September 18, 2026
Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It’s one of over a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies bound together by
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In 1924, the Montreal Canadiens left the Stanley Cup on the side of the road 0
- Engineering, Fitness & Exercise, HEALTH, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Technology
- September 18, 2026
The Stanley Cup—hockey’s biggest prize—has survived champagne showers, championship parades, accidental drops, and even a trip to the bottom of a canal. But one of its strangest adventures happened before it became the towering icon known around the world. Originally a short, week-long tournament requiring as few as four wins in the 1920s, the Stanley
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First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 18, 2026
Physicist Stephen Hawking lived with motor neuron disease for longer than any other person known.Credit: Santi Visalli/Getty A man with an uncommon type of motor neuron disease experienced improved symptoms and continued to work as a physician a year after becoming the first person to receive a drug designed to target the specific genetic mutation
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Molecular-level observation of the self-assembly of a virus-like particle – Nature 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 18, 2026
Expression and purification of SC003-mi3 VLP The mi3-VLP (also known as SC003-mi3) was derived from i3-01 (ref. 66) by introducing two mutations that remove surface-exposed cysteines to prevent aggregation and by genetically fusing a SpyCatcher domain to the N-terminus to enable plug-and-play attachment of SpyTagged proteins54. The plasmid pET28a-SpyCatcher003(SC003)-mi3 (gift from Professor Mark Howarth, Cambridge University)
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