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With the launch of Sentinel-6B, a new environmental monitoring satellite developed as part of a multibillion-dollar worldwide program, NASA has made a major advancement in its long-term climate monitoring mission. Launched in mid-November atop a SpaceX rocket, the satellite is expected to provide highly precise data on sea-level rise and atmospheric conditions, letting scientists follow…

A Washington study linked sleep above 6.5 hours to cognitive decline Most of us worry about not sleeping enough, the bleary mornings, the heavy eyelids, the sense of running on fumes. What almost no one considers is the opposite problem: the idea that getting too much sleep might quietly work against your brain. It sounds…

NOAA hydrophones recorded the 1997 “Bloop,” a sound so loud it travelled over 3,219 kilometres underwater. Nearly 30 years after it was first recorded, people are still arguing about a single sound from the deep ocean. The “Bloop,” a strange, powerful underwater noise picked up in 1997, has been folded into YouTube conspiracies, Lovecraft memes…

NEW DELHI: Former Nasa astronaut Mike Massimino, known for his work on the Hubble Space Telescope and who flew on two space missions, has weighed in on one of humanity’s biggest questions: Are we alone in the universe?The veteran astronaut–who flew on two space missions, conducted four spacewalks, and spent an astonishing 30 hours and…