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Can Solar Wind Make Water on the Moon? A NASA Experiment Shows Maybe
"Future moon astronauts may find water more accessible than previously thought," writes Space.com, citing a new NASA-led experiment:
Because the moon lacks a magnetic field like Earth's, the barren lunar surface is constantly bombarded by energetic particles from the sun... Li Hsia Yeo, a planetary...
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California Becomes the World's Fourth-Largest Economy, Overtaking Japan
"Only the United States, China and Germany have larger economies than California," reports CNN.
In fact, they add that California "outpaced all three countries with growth of 6% last year," according to the California governor's office (which cites new data from the International Monetary Fund and...
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XPrize In Carbon Removal Goes To Enhanced Rock Weathering
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: The XPrize Foundation today announced the winners of its four-year, $100 million XPrize competition in carbon removal. The contest is one of dozens hosted by the foundation in its 20-year effort to encourage technological development. Contestan...
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China Shares Rare Moon Rocks With US
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: China will let scientists from six countries, including the U.S., examine the rocks it collected from the Moon -- a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war. Two NASA-funded U.S. instit...
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Netflix Introduces a New Kind of Subtitles For the Non-Hearing Impaired
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Multiple studies and investigations have found that about half of American households watch TV and movies with subtitles on, but only a relatively small portion of those include someone with a hearing disability. That's because of the trouble ma...
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