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Strauss' 'Blue Danube' waltz is launching into space to mark his 200th birthday
Strauss' "Blue Danube" is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth.
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending telework policy for nearly 5,500 employees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has told more than 5,500 hybrid and telework employees that they must return to on-site work ...
NASA satellite records unprecedented river waves in the United States
NASA’s SWOT satellite has measured large river waves for the first time, which were found to be caused by extreme rainfall ...
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Research Payloads to Support Long-Duration Spaceflight and Improve Osteoarthritis and Cancer Treatment Return From Space Station
ELVIS is back. Samples from the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System (ELVIS) —a new holographic microscope—have returned ...
Elias: Several California colleges could afford to stand up to Trump
Stanford leads the list of the state’s universities that don’t depend heavily on federal funds. The UC system is less well ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
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Arizona developing first petahertz-speed phototransistor
Using a commercially available graphene phototransistor that was modified to introduce a special silicon layer, the ...
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Laurie Leshin stepping down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
Laurie Leshin announced today (May 7) that she'll step down from her role as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California in June, after more than three years in charge.