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Unexpected Trajectory: Erin Sholls Path to Human Spaceflight Safety
Linda E. Grimm
Career paths are rarely a straight line and often include some unexpected curves. That is certainly true for Erin Sholl, deputy chief of the Space Transportation Systems Division within the Safety an ...[Continue Reading]
NASA
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Christianity May Have Brought Face Tattoos to Medieval Nubia
Margherita Bassi
People around the world have been adorning their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. While one of the most famous ancient tattoo wearers is Otzi the Icemanthe prehistoric man whose 5,300-year ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
1 day ago
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RNA May Be Common throughout the Cosmos, New Study Suggests
Jonathan O'Callaghan
How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...[Continue Reading]
Scientific American
1 day ago
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Amid Trumps Proposed Pipeline Safety Rollbacks, Senator Questions Regulators Industry Ties
Jesse Coburn
Two appointees of the administration of President Donald Trump at the nations pipeline regulator are facing ethics questions from a top lawmaker on the Senate committee that oversees their agency, fo ...[Continue Reading]
ProPublica
1 day ago
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It Didn't Take Long For Earth's Ancient Oceans To Become Oxygenated
Evan Gough, Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
Every biologist knows how important the Great Oxygenation Event was. It took the first photosynthetic organisms hundreds of millions of years to enrich Earth's atmosphere with oxygen, leading to comp ...[Continue Reading]
Universe Today
1 day ago
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NextSTEP-3 B: Moon to Mars Architecture Studies
Danny Baird
Notice ID: M2M-MSFC-0001 NAICS Codes: <ul><li>541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)</li></ul>NASA seeks indust ...[Continue Reading]
NASA
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