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By Joel ,16, Jill Dando News Correspondent The Science Museum and UK space company Magdrive are running a competition for children to design a mission patch for Magdrive’s first space test! The winning patch will be used on the Going Rogue mission and shown in the museum’s new
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By Science Correspondent New research from The University of Manchester may reshape our understanding of what happens to the immune system when we fast. Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the study on mice shows that the brain’s hypothalamus controls how the immune system adapts
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By Science Editor The dirt on astronauts’ boots might one day power space exploration. A study published on April 3 in Device journal shows that solar cells made from simulated Moon dust can efficiently convert sunlight into energy, resist radiation, and reduce the need for bringing heavy materials from Earth.
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By Jill Dando News Despite being prehistoric predator and prey, massive meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs drank together from shallow freshwater lagoons on the Isle of Skye, 167 million years ago, according to newly identified tracks. The 131 footprints at Prince Charles’s Point on Skye’s Trotternish Peninsula makes the
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By Science Correspondent NASA has announced the astronauts and cosmonauts selected for the upcoming SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the 11th crew rotation flight as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The mission, slated for launch no earlier than July 2025, will feature four
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By Science Correspondent For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune, marking the first ever detection of a long-sought species (H3+) high in the atmosphere of the Ice Giant. The discovery, using JWST’s near-infrared instrument, was made by a team
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By Science Correspondent Reducing the amount of agricultural sprays used by farmers — including fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides — could cut down the amount of polluting runoff that ends up in the environment while at the same time reducing farmers’ costs and perhaps even enhancing their productivity. A classic win-win-win. A team
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By Health Correspondent The first clinical trial to test the link between food additive emulsifiers and Crohn’s disease has revealed that a low emulsifier diet could be an effective new treatment. The study, which included 154 participants and is one of the largest ever dietary trials in Crohn’s
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By Jill Dando News Life begins with a single cell in motion. In response to signals from proteins and enzymes, a cell moves, contracts, pinches, and divides. As daughter cells grow and differentiate, they form a complete organism. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have now used light to control
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By Science Correspondent Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at the atomic level – revealing how cells begin the crucial process of copying their genetic material. The groundbreaking discovery, published in the prestigious journal Nature, could have far-reaching implications, helping
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By Jill Dando News NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, in the Gulf of America. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and
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By Health Correspondent In a new study, an international team of neuroscientists led by the University of Vienna has shown that experiencing nature can alleviate acute physical pain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that acute pain was rated as less intense and unpleasant when watching nature videos
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By Science Editor In the developing heart, cells must move and interact carefully to find their correct place, and the stakes are high: mismatched cells could cause the heart to malfunction. A new study, published on March 12 in the Biophysical Journal, reveals how heart cells "speed date"
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By Jill Dando News John McFall has been cleared to become the first person with a physical disability to take part in a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The former Paralympian and surgeon has been medically certified to undertake a long-duration mission, the European Space Agency has announced.
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By Jill Dando News Large birds – our closest relations to dinosaurs - are capable of technical innovation and can solve a physical task to gain access to food. This is the first time scientists have been able to show that palaeognath birds such as emus and rheas can solve tricky
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By Jill Dando News Rice farming is a major contributor to global methane emissions, accounting for around 12% of the total. As the world’s population grows and temperatures rise, these emissions are expected to increase. But now, scientists have developed a new type of rice that could significantly reduce