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An upcoming NYC gallery's all-Black staff, exploring Jupiter's moons, an environmentally friendly enzyme and more
Tag: Outer Space
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NASA Ships its Space-Ready Bathroom to the ISS This Week
Finding the perfect toilet for space has stumped researchers and designers at NASA for some time—so much so that they opened a crowd-sourced design competition looking for a better option. Now, NASA …
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Virtual joyrides, magic history, revelations in space and more discoveries from around the web
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A "heartbeat" in space, an online database of 5,000 cookbooks, women-centric design and more in our round-up of the web
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Calcium in our Bones + Teeth was Created by Exploding Stars
Reinforcing the often-shared sentiment that we are all made of stars (popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan), a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal posits that half of the calcium found in …
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Art museum banners that block harmful air pollutants, a medical student's guide to symptoms on darker skin and more from around the web
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Eau de Space Perfume Replicates the Scent of Outer Space
Based upon the smell of outer space, recreated from various “natural flavors and ingredients for the food and beverage industry,” and verified by multiple astronauts (including space shuttle pilot Tony Antonelli, who …
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An All-Sky X-Ray Image of the Universe
Made by the German-Russian eRosita telescope (which is currently mounted on the orbiting Spektr-RG space observatory), this remarkable image—completed last week—is an x-ray map of the universe. The scan was taken approximately …
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Jazz history, black holes explained, whimsical virtual exhibitions and discoveries from ancient ruins
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NASA’s Highest-Resolution Photo of Mars
NASA’s new image of the surface of Mars—the space agency’s highest-resolution photograph of the Red Planet ever—comprises 1,200 total images. The wide-pan photograph features what researchers hypothesize are former sites of lakes …