I'm one of only 26 Black women astrophysicists in America. Acting helped me overcome the stereotypes I felt as a woman of color in STEM.

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Dr. Aomawa Shields.

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Scientists genetically engineer bacteria to detect cancer cells

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An international team of scientists has developed a new technology that can help detect (or even treat) cancer in hard-to-reach places, such as the colon. The team has published a paper in Science for the technique dubbed CATCH, or cellular assay for targeted, CRISPR-discriminated horizontal gene transfer.

Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s

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Rocket booster with Luna-25 lunar lander blasts off at Vostochny Cosmodrome on Friday. Russia's mission aims to be the first to do a soft-landing on the south pole of the moon.

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Sun smacks Earth with 2 powerful, back-to-back X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the US

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The right side of the sun experienced a solar flare on August 5, 2023, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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Archaeologists discovered a 17th-century 'vampire child' with a padlocked ankle in a Polish 'necropolis' graveyard

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The skeletal remains of what researchers believe to be a 17th-century
Archeologists discovered the skeletal remains of what they believe to be a 17th-century "vampire child" in an unmarked Polish cemetery.

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How a safari led me to discover the ancient history of house cats

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Russia heads to the Moon for the first time in 47 years

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Russia is heading back to the Moon as it tries to reassert itself as a significant world power in the wake of its war on Ukraine. A rocket carrying the Luna-25 craft will mark Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976.

Small businesses turned an Chicago old meatpacking plant into a living experiment in sustainable food, and they are thriving

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Space tourists will probably have sex up there, but they shouldn't get pregnant, researchers warn

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Space sex could be on the horizon.

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How to watch Virgin Galactic's first space tourist launch 300,000 feet above the ground

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A photo shows Jon Goodwin, and mother-daughter duo Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers, posing in their spacesuits in front of a purple background.
Jon Goodwin, an 80-year-old British Olympian, and mother-daughter duo Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers, will be on Virgin Galactic's first private commercial spaceflight.

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