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From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet.
Two innovative experiments built at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) launched into low earth orbit on Thursday, March 8, onboard the Space Test Program Satellite-1 (STPSat-1). Both payloads ...
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NASA and theU.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have joined forces in a groundbreaking initiative to map critical minerals in the ...
NASA is preparing for a Cargo Dragon spacecraft currently docked at the International Space Station to return to Earth with a number of scientific experiments. NASA says they will broadcast the ...
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Human activities increasingly lead to climate change, overuse of water, hazards and the destruction of biodiversity — to name just a few. Earth scientists need to take on the challenge of ...
The study, published today in Science, uses laboratory experiments to show that the iron-depleted, oxidized chemistry typical of Earth's continental crust likely did not come from crystallization ...
Sometimes science needs to go big. From telescopes spanning the globe to particle accelerators that would take over 24 hours to walk around, these experiments are among the largest ever conducted.