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Happy Monday: NASA's DART Spacecraft Will Smack an Asteroid at 14,000 MPH Today

Today, September 26, a spacecraft moving eight times faster than a speeding bullet will impact an asteroid almost 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth. To be clear, the asteroid poses no threat to us, either before or after impact. But no one knows exactly how the collision will affect ...

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Happy Monday: NASA's DART Spacecraft Will Smack an Asteroid at 14,000 MPH Today

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Hurricane Ian forces Nasa to shelter Artemis Moon rocket

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Hurricane Ian forces Nasa to shelter Artemis Moon rocket

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NASA decides to roll its moon rocket back to shelter as Hurricane Ian nears Florida

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NASA decides to roll its moon rocket back to shelter as Hurricane Ian nears Florida

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Florida braces for 'strengthening' Hurricane Ian

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Florida braces for 'strengthening' Hurricane Ian

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Hurricane Ian pushes NASA to roll back Artemis I rocket

Thunderstorms move over Artemis I at launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 27th, 2022. | Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Threatening weather will force NASA to send the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from its currently ...

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Hurricane Ian pushes NASA to roll back Artemis I rocket

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NASA is intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Here's how to watch the collision live.

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NASA is intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Here's how to watch the collision live.

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Roman-era anchor found at windfarm on display in Ipswich

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Roman-era anchor found at windfarm on display in Ipswich

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NASA's DART spacecraft crashing into an asteroid could one day save humanity

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NASA's DART spacecraft crashing into an asteroid could one day save humanity

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Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin had a cardboard fire

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla's dealing with the aftermath of a fire on the grounds of its Gigafactory in Berlin early this morning. According to local reporting, Tesla's factory fire brigade called for the assistance of local firefighters at 3:33AM, and more than ...

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Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin had a cardboard fire

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How to Watch NASA's DART Spacecraft Slam Into an Asteroid

The DART mission has been flying to its target since launching last year. On Monday night, it will connect.

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How to Watch NASA's DART Spacecraft Slam Into an Asteroid

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Ancestry will tell users which side of the family their matches come from

Ancestry has an enormous genetic database. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Customers of the consumer genetics and genealogy company Ancestry will soon be able to see which side of the family any DNA matches found through the service come from. The new feature, launching ...

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Ancestry will tell users which side of the family their matches come from

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New grants support research on factors affecting infectious disease transmission

Headlines on COVID-19 and monkeypox underscore the importance of understanding infectious diseases and how they're transmitted. Scientists are studying these diseases, such as hand, foot and mouth disease and Lyme disease, to gain insights into how?

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New grants support research on factors affecting infectious disease transmission

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How to watch NASA crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday

An illustration of DART headed towards Dimorphos | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben When NASA smashes a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday, people on Earth will get an extremely close look at the action. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) is headed for its final ...

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How to watch NASA crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday

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NASA is about to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid

An illustration of the DART spacecraft and the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Dimorphos is a lump of space rock so far away from Earth that we don't even know what it looks like " and on Monday, we're going to smash it with a spacecraft. ...

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NASA is about to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid

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The Tech That Will Push VR to the Limits of the Human Eye

Big tech is eager to get us excited about the coming of the metaverse, but today's virtual reality hardware is a long way from meeting their ambitious goals. One of the biggest challenges is building better displays with far more pixels per inch, but experts say new materials and designs are on the way. ...

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The Tech That Will Push VR to the Limits of the Human Eye

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A Wheel Made of "Odd Matter" Spontaneously Rolls Uphill

Physicists have solved a key problem of robotic locomotion by revising the usual rules of interaction between simple component parts.

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A Wheel Made of "Odd Matter" Spontaneously Rolls Uphill

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NASA scraps Artemis I launch due to potential hurricane threat

NASA's Artemis I launch has already been delayed several times. | Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images NASA called off its Artemis I launch scheduled for September 27th as Tropical Storm Ian continues to intensify, potentially strengthening into a major hurricane that ...

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NASA scraps Artemis I launch due to potential hurricane threat

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Philadelphia's Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine

A cache of phytoplankton at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping researchers reconstruct historical coastlines.

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Philadelphia's Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine

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How to Find Your Vaccine History?and Store It Safely

Worries about polio, monkeypox, and Covid-19 are rising. Here's how to gather your health information, even if you've lost the paper records.

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How to Find Your Vaccine History?and Store It Safely

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3 Chimpanzees Kidnapped for Ransom From Congo Sanctuary

In a country where wildlife trafficking already runs rampant, conservationists fear that ransoming of animals may become a common tactic used by criminals.

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3 Chimpanzees Kidnapped for Ransom From Congo Sanctuary

National Science Foundation

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan promoted greater domestic production of critical computer chips and the benefits of enhanced international cooperation among agencies and organizations. On Monday, the director sat down with host Judy?

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan