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The trampoline is now international: NASA and Roscosmos agree to seat swap

[ad_1] Enlarge / Anna Kikina will be the fifth Russian woman to go to space. (credit: Roscosmos) NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have officially agreed to exchange seats on four upcoming missions to the International Space Station. The first missions—with a Russian on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and an American on Soyuz vehicles—will fly in September.

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Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed as director general of Roscosmos [Updated]

[ad_1] Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin really knows how to fill out a hard hat. (credit: Yegor Aleyev / TASS via Getty Images) 8:30 am ET Friday Update: The Kremlin has made it official in a short communique—Dmitry Rogozin is out as director general of the country’s state-owned space corporation, Roscosmos. The decree is

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Rocket Report: Vega-C is a sight to see; will Europe push SpaceX aside?

[ad_1] Enlarge / Europe’s Vega-C rocket takes off from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday. (credit: European Space Agency) Welcome to Edition 5.03 of the Rocket Report!  It was a big week for small launch news, with a successful debut for Europe’s Vega-C rocket, a responsive launch by Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle, and

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Long-COVID patients spend their life savings on unproven “blood washing”

[ad_1] Enlarge / A plasma donor is connected to an apheresis machine, which separates plasma from blood as people donate blood plasma for medicines, at the Twickenham Donor Centre, southwest London on April 7, 2021. (credit: Getty | Johnathan Brady) The COVID-19 pandemic is considered by many experts to be a mass disabling event. Though

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Quantum advantage showdowns have no clear winners

[ad_1] Enlarge / Xanadu’s quantum chip. (credit: Xanadu) Last month, physicists at Toronto-based startup Xanadu published a curious experiment in Nature in which they generated seemingly random numbers. During the pandemic, they built a tabletop machine named Borealis, consisting of lasers, mirrors, and over a kilometer of optical fiber. Within Borealis, 216 beams of infrared

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Men lose Y chromosomes as they age. It may be harming their hearts

[ad_1] As men get older, they don’t just lose their hair, muscle tone, and knee cartilage. They also start to lose Y chromosomes from their cells. Scientists have linked this vanishing to a long list of diseases and a higher risk of death, but the evidence has been circumstantial. Now, researchers report that when they

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