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	Science As-it-happens update ⋅ August 2, 2019
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	Spaceflight Now SpaceX to begin flights under new cargo resupply contract next year Spaceflight Now SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft closes in for docking at the International Space Station during a test flight March 3. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX is set to retire its current fleet of Dragon capsules, in use since 2010, next year and begin flying ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com An Asteroid Bigger Than the Empire State Building Will Pass Earth Soon. But Don't Worry Space.com Another asteroid is passing close by Earth but, no, it won't hit us. On Aug. 10, Asteroid 2006 QQ23 will fly within 0.049 astronomical units (4.6 million miles) of Earth at about 10,400 mph (16,740 km/h). This might not seem close, but it is close enough to classify ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Quantum entanglement in chemical reactions? Now there's a way to find out Phys.Org Scientists have long suspected that a quantum phenomenon might play a role in photosynthesis and other chemical reactions of nature, but don't know for sure because such a phenomenon is so difficult to identify. Purdue University researchers have ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Shining (star)light on the search for life Phys.Org An artist's conception of an Earth-like exoplanet. Credit: NASA/GSFC/C. Meaney/B. Monroe/S. Wiessinger. In the hunt for life on other worlds, astronomers scour over planets that are light-years away. They need ways to identify life from afar—but what counts ... Flag as irrelevant
	Live Science Scientists Find a Boiling, Toxic Wasteland of an Exoplanet, and It's Shaped Liked a Football Live Science Nine-hundred light-years from Earth, there's a football-shaped planet so hot that heavy metals boil through its atmosphere, venting into space. The planet, called WASP-121b, is about 10 times hotter than any other known exoplanet, due to its proximity to its ... Flag as irrelevant
	Futurism Astronomer: We Can Use Earth's Atmosphere as a Massive Telescope Futurism We don't currently have the ability to build the sort of planet-sized telescope that that would let peer into the far reaches of our universe. But we do have a planet, and using a trick of physics, David Kipping, an assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia ... Flag as irrelevant
	UPI.com Male black widow spiders hijack silk strands of their rivals to find a mate UPI.com Aug. 2 (UPI) -- To find mates, male black widow spiders follow the silk trails left by their rivals, according to a new study. The revelation, detailed this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, surprised scientists at the University of Toronto ... Flag as irrelevant
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