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- Innovators around the world are finding creative ways to recycle things we throw away.
- Human hair can soak up oil spills, while used coffee grounds can be made into sunglasses frames.
- We found out how companies are repurposing old chopsticks, flip
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For the past 15 years, a small NASA spacecraft has explored the edge of space, probing the elusive clouds that form in Earth’s mesosphere. But the spacecraft is no longer operating the way it used to, forcing the team to end its mission.
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December and January represent breeding season for seabirds in Antarctica, a time when there should be thousands of active nests. But strong snowstorms during the 2021-2022 season made it difficult for birds to access their usual grounds and resulted in a total failure to reproduce for multiple species.
New animals and plants are being lost to extinction every year—more than 160 species disappeared just in the past decade.
As humanity resets its gaze toward Moon, British aerospace company Rolls-Royce Holdings is continuing its work on developing nuclear power sources for spaceflight and exploration. Today, the company announced funding from the U.K. Space Agency to further research and develop a nuclear reactor that’s meant to power a…