Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...
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A novel strategy for highly selective ethanol synthesis from methane driven by light-driven transformation without reliability for reactive oxygen species

Professor Zhongkui Zhao of Dalian University of Technology, in collaboration with Professor Riguang Zhang of Taiyuan ...

The time 'rondeau' crystal: Scientists observe a new form of temporal order

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers achieved the first experimental observation of a time rondeau crystal ...
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The Learning Network

How does the dystopian world of Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451” compare with society today? Eighth graders use The New York Times to investigate. By Nick Morris The former N.F.L. superstar Tom ...