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Japan became the fifth nation to land on the moon on Saturday, but its spacecraft ended up in an awkward position, with its engine nozzle pointed up toward space. By design, the Japanese spacecraft, known as Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, was supposed to land on its side, a strategy to avoid tipping […]

Scurrying along the dense brush of coastal woodlands and forests, the small, mouselike antechinus appears more unassuming than many of Australia’s marsupials. But for the three weeks of their breeding season, the males transform into absolute sex-obsessed lotharios. “They have this super bizarre breeding system, which is quite common among flies and some fish, where

The origin of bird wings has long presented a puzzle to paleontologists: Why did these structures develop in the age of the dinosaurs? And what were some of the earliest wings used for, if not for flight? In research published on Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists used a robotic dinosaur and terrified grasshoppers

Officials at the European Space Agency (Esa) forecast a budget of €1.75bn (£1.5bn; $1.9bn), with additional contributions coming from member states including Germany, France, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The US space agency (Nasa) will be a major partner, too. Source link

The first image of the Slim spacecraft shows it to be in an awkward position on the lunar surface. Source link

President Biden on Wednesday vetoed a Republican-led effort that could have thwarted the administration’s plans to invest $7.5 billion to build electric vehicle charging stations across the country. In issuing the veto, Mr. Biden argued that the congressional resolution would have hurt domestic manufacturing as well as the clean energy transition. “If enacted, this resolution

Back Story: The pandemic and rising hesitancy slowed immunizations. A false claim in the 1990s that said the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine causes autism led to a drop in immunization rates. Public health campaigns later recouped much of that deficit, but the rates again fell during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly in low-income countries.

The world’s largest rainforest protects us from climate change but deforestation has left it vulnerable. Source link

The world’s largest rainforest protects us from climate change but deforestation has left it vulnerable. Source link