
How Dry Is Texas? SMAP, TxSON Network Aim to Find Out
A new network of sensors in the bone-dry Texas hill country will produce detailed data on soil moisture - when there is any. While verifying the measurements of NASA's recently launched Soil Moistur ... more
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New GPS system could transform virtual reality and mobile devices
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a centimeter-accurate GPS-based positioning system that could revolutionize geolocation on virtu ... more
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Study reveals why mysterious structures within Earth's mantle hold clues to life here
Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
Boos, blowups and last-minute pause as a chaotic COP30 closes out
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NASA's LRO Moves Closer to the Lunar Surface
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has completed a maneuver that lowered the spacecraft's orbit to within 20 kilometers (12 miles) above areas near the lunar South Pole, the closest the space ... more
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New bid to contact Europe's comet probe
Europe will launch a new bid Friday to communicate with its comet lander Philae, hurtling towards the Sun some 360 million kilometres (224 million miles) from Earth, ground operators said. ... more
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Unmanned supply ship burns up on re-entry
An unmanned Russian supply ship disintegrated as it plummeted to Earth on Friday after suffering a communications failure on its way to the International Space Station, in a fiery end to a mission to deliver oxygen, water and supplies. ... more
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Invisibility cloaks move into the real-life classroom
Who among us hasn't wanted to don a shimmering piece of fabric and instantly disappear from sight? Unfortunately, we non-magical folk are bound by the laws of physics, which have a way of preventing ... more
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From brittle to plastic in one breath
What if peanut brittle, under certain conditions, behaved like taffy? Something like that happens to a two-dimensional dichalcogenide analyzed by scientists at Rice University. Rice researchers calc ... more
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