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NASA has teamed up with Western Kentucky University to develop an app to track April’s solar eclipse on a cell phone. The SunSketcher app makes it easy for volunteers to record the event so scientists can compile the photos into a database in an effort to map the sun. Just before the eclipse, users within its path of totality from Texas to Maine on April 8 simply need to put their phone on the stand or tripod, face their back camera to the eclipse.
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1 year ago Read more at New York Post

Signs of the Seasons is a statewide effort to recruit volunteers to identify and record changes in more than 20 different indicator species like rockweed, milkweed, loons, butterflies and lilacs. The first training is scheduled for 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at Stimpson’s Point in Brunswick. Additional workshops will be held throughout April and May in Falmouth, Wells, Augusta, Camden and Boothbay.
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1 year ago Read more at Lewiston Sun Journal

The decision has ignited controversy as people question its rationale. Critics view it as prioritising religious beliefs over science and technology. In nation after nation, religious rights are being rolled back in place of secular and atheistic ideals.
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1 year ago Read more at The Citizen

Japan's unmanned lunar lander has stirred to life following its survival through a second frigid lunar night. SLIM has successfully completed its second overnight," the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a post on the official X account for its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon probe.
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1 year ago Read more at The Times of India

Japan's unmanned moon lander woke up after surviving a second frigid, two-week lunar night. SLIM recorded images of the usual scenery with the navigational camera, among other activities, for a short period of time. As the sun was still high in the sky last night, the probe came back to life in late January for two days.
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1 year ago Read more at Voice of America - VOA News

The image may only be used with appropriate caption or credit. This Japanese nationwide study reports trends in the incidence of renal replacement therapy due to rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in Japan, 2006–2021 Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted by contributing institutions.
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On March 25, 2024, a citizen scientist in the Czech Republic spotted a comet in an image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. A zoomed-in inset shows the comet as a faint dot between the white vertical lines. The image was taken by SOHO’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), which uses a disk to block the bright Sun and reveal faint features around it.
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Astrophysicists at State University of New York, Stony Brook, and University of California, Berkeley created 3D simulations of X-ray bursts on the surfaces of neutron stars. The panels (from top to bottom) show the x-ray structure at 10, 20 and 40 milliseconds of simulation time. Neutron stars — the compact remnants of supernova explosions — are found throughout the universe.
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Motor neurone disease - also known as ALS - is incurable condition that affects the brain and nerves and causes muscle weakness that gets worse over time. The new test is known as TDP-43 aptamer and has been developed by experts from the University of Aberdeen. It could pick up indicators of MND earlier and with more sensitivity.
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1 year ago Read more at Sky News

Daniel Kahneman was the world’s greatest scholar of how people get things wrong. He declared his wrongness many times, on matters large and small, in public and in private. In 2011, he compiled his life’s work to that point into Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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1 year ago Read more at The Atlantic