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	Science As-it-happens update ⋅ August 29, 2019
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	Space.com Mars Helicopter Drone Installed on NASA's Next Red Planet Rover Space.com The first-ever off-Earth helicopter just hooked up with its traveling companion. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, attached the tiny Mars Helicopter to the agency's car-size Mars 2020 rover today (Aug. 28), agency ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American Rare 3.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Recasts Origins of Iconic "Lucy" Fossil Scientific American An ancient face is shedding new light on our earliest ancestors. Archaeologists have discovered a 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull in Ethiopia—a rare and remarkably complete specimen that could change what we know about the origins of one of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Popular Science Amazing new photos of asteroid Ryugu present a new mystery: who cleaned up all the dust? Popular Science Last October, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped a toaster-sized lander onto the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) tumbled around a bit, but accomplished its objective with flying colors. It cruised the ... Flag as irrelevant
	NDTV Telescope for NASA's WFIRST Mission Advances to New Phase of Development Space Daily On schedule to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the WFIRST spacecraft will play a significant role in this, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek NASA's ECOSTRESS detects Amazon fires from space Phys.Org NASA's Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured imagery of fires in the Amazon regions of Brazil and Bolivia on Aug. 23, 2019. The red areas in the images—in eastern Bolivia and northern ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Times Floating Rocks Size of Manhattan Brave The Oceans Science Times Scientists believed that somewhere under the waters of the Pacific Ocean, a volcano erupted. They assumed that it must have happened likely around the island of Tonga. There is no proof until the people saw huge rocks traveling across the waters of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Express.co.uk Black Supermoon 2019: What is a Black Moon? What is a Supermoon? Express.co.uk The Black Moon Supermoon combo will arrive tomorrow (August 30) with the New Moon phase of the lunar cycle. A Black Moon is an incredibly rare occurrence by some definitions and only makes an appearance once every five to 10 years. A New Moon, on ... Flag as irrelevant
	New Atlas Colorful new galactic map shows strange strings of stars New Atlas It may look like a Jackson Pollock painting, but this colorful mess is actually a new map of the Milky Way, with dots and lines of different colors representing groups of stars that were born together. Compiled from Gaia's galactic census released last year, this ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Ohio State University News Food-waste study reveals trends behind discarded items Science Daily Date: August 29, 2019; Source: Ohio State University; Summary: Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found. Share: FULL STORY ... Flag as irrelevant
	SciTechDaily 'Jenga Chemistry' Creates Superconductivity in a Nickel Oxide Material SciTechDaily Made with 'Jenga chemistry,' the discovery could help crack the mystery of how high-temperature superconductors work. Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first nickel oxide ... Flag as irrelevant
	Metro Post-apocalyptic 'nuclear winter' could send humanity into extinction, scientists warn Metro A nuclear war will plunge Earth into a 'winter' which threatens 'nearly everyone' on the planet and could cause the extinction of humanity. Scientists have calculated what would happen if the US and Russia launched their nuclear arsenals during a war of ... Flag as irrelevant
	IFLScience The Truth Of Climate Change Is Recorded By Centuries Of French Wine Harvests IFLScience If you won't believe a climate scientist when they tell you recent summers have been abnormally hot, how about a vintner? In vino veritas, after all (in wine lies the truth). Newly published records of 6.5 centuries of grape harvests reveal recent changes to ... Flag as irrelevant
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