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California has way more bugs than we thought 0
- Animals, Biology, Conservation, Environment, Insects, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Wildlife
- November 5, 2026
It’s true that there are more insects on Earth than any other animal. They make up roughly 80 percent of the planet’s animals and include about 900,000 known species. However, those jaw-dropping numbers can make it easy to undercount our six-legged friends. Take the state of California. Over 60,000 different species of insects reside in
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NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research – NASA 0
- Aeronautics, Flight Innovation, NASA Aircraft, Research and Technology Mission Directorate, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- November 5, 2026
On Wednesday, NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This high-performance, highly adaptable research platform is designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies. The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore
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Why a pink potato-like robot is wheeling around Philadelphia 0
- Ask Us Anything, Robots, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Technology
- November 5, 2026
It was a showdown worthy of a classic Western, except the things rolling down the street weren’t tumbleweeds. They were robots. On one side of an Old City sidewalk in Philadelphia, an Uber Eats robot trundled along on its daily route. Suddenly, something blocked its path, and it was met face-to-interface with another, new robot.
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Famed Iron Age king was actually a woman 0
- Archaeology, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- November 5, 2026
Ancient Rome famously invaded Britain in 43 CE, under the direction of the emperor Claudius. But his campaign’s success largely hinged on insider information. Just three years’ earlier, an Iron Age tribe living in present-day southeast England known as the Atrebates ousted their ruler named Verica, who subsequently fled for Rome. Once there, Verica convinced
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NASA Shares Plans to Accelerate Artemis, Return to Moon – NASA 0
- Artemis, Artemis 3, Artemis 4, Human Landing System Program, Marshall Space Flight Center, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- November 4, 2026
In an update on Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders shared the agency’s path to returning Americans to the lunar surface in 2028. Agency leadership provided updates on the previously announced acceleration plans for the Artemis program, advancing toward the agency’s Artemis III test flight in 2027 and Artemis IV Moon
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Archeologists crack a shipwreck’s 400-year-old combination lock 0
- Archaeology, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Technology
- November 4, 2026
Archaeologists have finally cracked the code to the famed Ann Francis shipwreck’s brass combination treasure lock. However, the 16th century relic didn’t open after hours of painstaking trial-and-error. Researchers at Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru, the National Museum of Wales, relied on highly detailed CT scanning equipment to peer inside the mechanical device and learn
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