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	Science Daily update ⋅ September 9, 2022
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	Space.com Hubble Space Telescope sees spiral of star formation in neighboring galaxy Space.com NASA's venerable space telescope has spotted stars and gas spiraling towards the heart of a massive, curiously shaped stellar nursery in the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud. Astronomers think that the outer arm of this spiral ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com NASA's asteroid-slamming spacecraft catches 1st look at target (photo) Space.com DART is a planetary defense test mission designed to impact the moonlet to alter its trajectory around Didymos. If proven effective, this spacecraft design could potentially be scaled up to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid. ( ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com NASA targets Sept. 23 for next Artemis 1 launch attempt, but a lot has to go right Space.com The U.S. Space Force, which oversees the Eastern Range used for Florida rocket launches, requires NASA to test the FTS every 25 days, a process that requires the 322-foot-tall (98 meters) rocket to leave the launch pad and roll back to its hangar. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times What Makes Your Brain Different From a Neanderthal's? The New York Times Scientists have discovered a glitch in our DNA that may have helped set the minds of our ancestors apart from those of Neanderthals and other extinct relatives. The mutation, which arose in the past few hundred thousand years, spurs the development of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com 'Doomsday Glacier' is teetering even closer to disaster than scientists thought, new seafloor map shows Livescience.com Underwater robots that peered under Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the "Doomsday Glacier," saw that its doom may come sooner than expected with an extreme spike in ice loss. A detailed map of the seafloor surrounding the icy behemoth has ... Flag as irrelevant
	Astronomy Magazine Earth's path through the Milky Way traced via tiny crystals found in the crust Astronomy Magazine Now, we've taken that minute attention to new heights, connecting tiny grains to Earth's place in the galactic environment. Looking out to the universe. At an even larger scale, astrophysicists seek ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com New class of exoplanet! Half-rock, half-water worlds could be abodes for life Space.com The fact that red dwarfs are so very common has made scientists wonder if they might be the best chance for discovering planets that can possess life as we know it on Earth. For example, in 2020, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com SpaceX fires up all 6 engines of Starship prototype ahead of orbital test flight (video) Space.com All six of the Raptor engines on SpaceX's Ship 24 vehicle blazed briefly Thursday at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT) at Starbase, the company's South Texas facility. The "static fire" ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY World's oldest mammal revealed as 'shrew-like' animal that lived with dinosaurs 225 million years ago USA TODAY The world's oldest known mammal has been identified using dental records – predating what scientists previously thought was the first mammal to walk the Earth by millions of years – according to new research. In the study, published in the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neandertals Phys.Org However, while both Neandertals and modern humans develop brains of similar size, very little is known about whether modern human and Neandertal brains may have differed in terms of their neuron production during development. Flag as irrelevant
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