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    New NASA space telescope SPHEREx to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't

    "the cosmic equivalent of new colors." - I like a metaphor as well as anyone, but this is supposed to be science. Not "new", hidden.
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    A cosmic 'CT scan' shows the universe is far more complex than expected

    I don't understand this article (Math, Nuc Eng). To start with, "less clumpy" & "more complicated" are not antonyms. One is not the reverse of the other. A foundation of our current understanding is that the Universe is homogeneous - looks the same regardless of the direction you look. How does...
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    Satellites watch world's largest iceberg on crash course with Antarctic penguin island (photo/video)

    The berg will ground well away from the feeding grounds. The Antarctic life, evolved for centuries with minimal light on the underside of the berg will mingle with the S. Georgia life, evolved for centuries in the shallows, to produce a unique synergy, highlighting Nature's cleverness.
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    Jupiter-bound JUICE probe slingshots by Earth on way to Venus (photos)

    What kind of "science journalist" says that a satellite performing a slingshot by Earth "hovered"?
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    Quantum gravity' could help unite quantum mechanics with general relativity at last

    Much discussion about the "smallest mass" & "tiny particle", but no actual value for the mass?
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    Dark matter detected dangling from the cosmic web for 1st time

    Dark Matter - Fudge Factor cosmologists invented to explain what they don't understand. Dark Energy - see Dark Matter.
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    How the Large Hadron Collider's successor will hunt for the dark universe

    "CERN's Director general justified the cost by adding that the FCC is the only machine that would allow humanity to make the big jump in studying matter needed to crack the secrets of the dark universe." I note that CERN's DG offered not a clue as to what "humanity" or the scientists are looking...
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    Why is Neptune's moon Triton so weird?

    The inner solar system presents one right next door - Venus.
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    SpaceX could get license for 2nd Starship launch in October, FAA says

    Mindless bureaucrats who know nothing about rockets or the launching of same.
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    25 years after its discovery, dark energy remains frustratingly elusive

    Neither Dark Energy or Dark Matter have been "discovered", only their effects. Both are fudge factors attempting to explain our ignorance. Both may well exist & exactly as assumed ... or not.
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    NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission is on track, but questions remain about Artemis 3

    "The Artemis 2 crew inspected the Orion spacecraft that will send them around the moon no earlier than November 2024" - I'll give even odds this doesn't happen before 2026. "a new mission plan may be necessary if SpaceX isn't ready for the landing (Artemis 3). - only because of FAA...
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    Virgin Galactic launches 1st mother-daughter team and 1st Olympian to space on 2nd commercial flight (video)

    For the love of humanity, could we stop this incessant "1st" (insert racial/sexual/age category here) to space drivel? Now we're going to include sports? Pffft!
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    SpaceX Starship problems likely to delay Artemis 3 moon mission to 2026, NASA says

    It's hard to test a rocket if the FAA won't let you launch.
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    Astronauts and addiction: Ending the stigma (op-ed)

    "it is not uncommon for doctors to write an opioid prescription to treat this ailment." "(CDC) reports that 47,600 overdose deaths, or 67.8% of all overdose deaths in 2017, were due to opioids." Bad form - correlation is not causation. "In a study examining more than 2,900 fatal overdoses in...
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