Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must first prove it can survive the unforgiving lunar environment. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers at the Lunar Development and Test Facility are tackling one of exploration’s biggest challenges: Moon dust. Unlike sand on Earth, lunar dust is sharp, abrasive, and clings
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Study design and participant recruitment IMPACC is a prospective longitudinal study that enrolled >1,000 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, as previously described27,32,55,56,57,58. Participants 18 years and older were recruited from 20 hospitals across 15 academic institutes within the USA (Fig. 1a). All participants were confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2-positive by reverse transcription PCR (RT–PCR) testing and no participants
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The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, UK, faces closure if alternative funding is not secured.Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty A growing clamour of voices is calling for the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, to reinstate funding for the iconic Lovell radio telescope, at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Manchester. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the
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A laser beam tracks the motions of the tiny magnet suspended in a vacuum chamber as it wobbles in response to magnetic fields.Credit: Wei Ji, Peking University Scientists have turned a levitating magnet into a device for measuring magnetic fields, known as a magnetometer — one that is sensitive enough to detect the faint signals
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A paramedic moves a person to an ambulance in Spain during a 2022 heatwave that killed more than 300 people in five days. Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg/Getty Extreme heat is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year — and the annual toll is growing. An estimated 210,000 more people died of heat-related causes each year
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