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2024 September


What are the weird noises coming from Boeing’s Starliner capsule?

What are the weird noises coming from Boeing’s Starliner capsule?

“The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback.” The feedback has no technical impact on the crew or the craft’s operations, it added.


Boat-ramming orcas may be using yachts as target practice toys, scientists suggest

Boat-ramming orcas may be using yachts as target practice toys, scientists suggest

From reports of the killer whales' behavior towards sailboats, DĂ­az LĂłpez believes the orcas are performing similar actions as they would during a hunt: repeatedly ramming the fast-moving rudder before trying to bite it.


2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind

2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind

The findings provide “a very strong indication that Alfvén waves can heat and accelerate the solar wind,” says Jean Perez, a plasma physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne who was not involved in the study.


Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock

Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock

To test this idea, the team conducted experiments with quartz crystals placed in a solution containing gold and subjected to moderate pressures from an actuator.


Here’s why some shooting stars have long-lasting afterglows

Here’s why some shooting stars have long-lasting afterglows

Classical physics is an explanation of the nature and properties of matter and energy that relies on descriptions such as Newton’s laws of motion.


World’s biggest battery coming to Maine — and it could store 130 million times more energy than your laptop

World’s biggest battery coming to Maine — and it could store 130 million times more energy than your laptop

"The project will ensure a more reliable, clean, and affordable grid in New England by reducing transmission congestion and making valuable wind energy resources available when and where they are needed," said Jaramillo in the statement.


Mayo is weirdly great for understanding nuclear fusion experiments

Mayo is weirdly great for understanding nuclear fusion experiments

The classic condiment is useful for understanding how materials behave, not only when smeared on sandwiches or plopped in potato salads, but also when deployed in nuclear fusion experiments.


Early galaxies weren’t mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds

Early galaxies weren’t mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds

The universe has expanded greatly since it was born about 13.8 billion years ago in the Big Bang, and that means the light from early galaxies appears reddened by the time it reaches Earth, much as how an ambulance siren sounds lower-pitched to people as the vehicle drives away.


How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer’s

How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer’s

Vaxxinity, which is based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is working on vaccines designed to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s or even stop it from developing in the first place.


Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species

Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species

A Chrysogorgia (golden coral) encountered by a robot diving along an unnamed Nazca Ridge seamount harbors other deep-sea species, including a Calliaster seastar and Lyrocteis ctenophore (yellow, gelatinous animals with trailing tentacles).


JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets

JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets

Ray Jayawardhana at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and his colleagues found these strange worlds in the NGC 1333 star cluster using the James Webb Space Telescope.