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All systems go for Artemis 1 mission to Moon Article @EverythingScience

SLS sitting on Pad 39B waiting to do its job. Artemis 1 is just 4 days away. Source: @thejackbeyer

The sounds of a black hole The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! Source: @NASAExoplanets

Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? At its height, the Roman Empire was home to about 30 % of the world’s population, and in many ways the pinnacle of human advancement. Rome became the first city in history to reach one million inhabitants and was a center of technological, legal, and economic progress. An empire impossible to topple, stable and rich and powerful. Until it wasn’t anymore. First slowly then suddenly, the most powerful civilization on earth collapsed. If this is how it has been over the ages, what about us today? Will we lose our industrial technology, and with that our greatest achievements, from one dollar pizza to smartphones or laser eye surgery? Will all this go away too? Video (Kurzgesagt) @EverythingScience

45 years ago, Voyager 2 (shown in the background) launched at 10:29 a.m., carrying this Golden Record and flag on its quest into deep space. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, and along with Voyager 1, is NASA's longest-lived mission! Source: @NASAhistory

Six toaster-size satellites will work together to form the largest radio telescope ever launched. SunRISE, the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, is an upcoming NASA mission aimed at detecting bursts of radio waves from the Sun’s atmosphere. http://go.nasa.gov/3A8FTb4 Source: @NASAJPL

An Experimental Surgical Robot Is Headed to The International Space Station Article @EverythingScience

The TB Vaccine Mysteriously Protects Against Lots of Things. Now We Know Why Article @EverythingScience

An Interstellar Object May Have Struck Earth. Scientists Plan to Search The Ocean Article @EverythingScience

Curiosity turns 10 today! This curious robot set out to answer a big question: Could Mars have supported ancient life? Scientists have determined the answer is yes, and they’ve been working to learn more about the planet’s past habitable environment. Source: @NASAJPL

Why our ocean maps are terrible Video @EverythingScience

⁣⁣Solar storm will hit Earth Today (Aug. 3) High-speed solar winds from a "hole" in the sun's atmosphere are set to hit Earth's magnetic field Today (Aug 3.), triggering a minor G-1 geomagnetic storm. As a G1 geomagnetic storm, it has the potential to cause minor fluctuations in power grids and impact some satellite functions — including those for mobile devices and GPS systems. It will also bring the aurora as far south as Michigan and Maine in the US. Article @EverythingScience

Turn the lights up 💡 Check out the Cartwheel Galaxy as seen by NASAHubble in visible light and Webb in infrared. Complimentary views from complementary telescopes! Download both images in full-resolution: Hubble: https://bit.ly/3zjWjvO Webb: https://bit.ly/3oV7lmd Source: @NASAWebb

We Must Start Preparing Now For How Climate Change Might End Civilization, Says Report Speculating over humanity's demise is a sport we humans have enjoyed since forever. We build religions on our eschatological hopes, weave fiction out of our dystopian fears, and even write songs about the end of the world as we know it. So it's surprising that in the midst of an escalating global climate crisis, one that impacts everything from the health of individuals to the sustainability of entire ecosystems and their resources, potential global catastrophes are so underexplored. A report published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues it's high time we start taking worst-case scenarios seriously and come up with a solid game plan on what happens if – or indeed, when – our current way of life collapses. Article @EverythingScience

Scientists Reveal The First Images of Atoms 'Swimming' in Liquid Article @EverythingScience

Pinpointing consciousness in animal brains using a mouse 'brain map' Science may be one step closer to understanding where consciousness resides in the brain. A new study shows the importance of certain types of neural connections in identifying consciousness. "Where in the brain consciousness resides has been one of the biggest questions in science," said Associate Professor Masafumi Oizumi, corresponding author and head of the lab conducting the study. "Although we have not reached a conclusive answer, much empirical evidence has been accumulated in the course of searching for the minimal mechanisms sufficient for conscious experience, or the neural correlates of consciousness." Article @EverythingScience

Sighting of the Chang Zheng 5B core stage re-entering in Kuching, Malaysia Source: @nazriacai

Chinese booster rocket makes uncontrolled return to Earth Article @EverythingScience

Children who lack sleep may experience detrimental impact on brain and cognitive development that persists over time. Research finds getting less than nine hours of sleep nightly associated with cognitive difficulties, mental problems, and less gray matter in certain brain regions Article @EverythingScience