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Only the third woman to win Nobel in Physics.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a woman for only the third time since the award began.

With help from dark matter annihilation, some of the universe’s earliest stars were able to grow much larger than they would otherwise.

Now in its 12th year, the Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa continues to grow, much like the stem cells that are the center of its business and scientific discussions.

DJI now has the US government’s permission to authorize drone flights in controlled airspace near airports.

The FAA has approved DJI as part of its Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) program. The agency rigorously tested and validated DJI’s technology capabilities before giving its stamp of approval.

DJI was one of 9 companies that were just newly authorized. The other eight are Aeronyde, Airbus, AiRXOS, Altitude Angel, Converge, KittyHawk, UASidekick, and Unifly.

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Spotted on an official SpaceX T-shirt commemorating Starlink’s first two prototype satellites and corroborated through analysis of limited public photos of the spacecraft, SpaceX appears to be testing a relatively unique style of solar arrays on the first two satellites launched into orbit, known as Tintin A (Alice) and B (Bob).

It’s difficult to judge anything concrete from the nature of what may be immature prototypes, but SpaceX’s decision to take a major step away from its own style of solar expertise – Cargo Dragon’s traditional rigid panel arrays – is almost certainly motivated by a need to push beyond the current state of the art of satellite design and production.

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NASA’s New Horizons team has passed its ‘final exam’ ahead of the probe’s Jan. 1 flyby of the distant object dubbed Ultima Thule.

University of Michigan professor and Frenchman Gerard Mourou won a Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work with lasers. (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s the latest after a powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, triggering a tsunami.

(CNN) — Scientists believe a fossil found at a landfill in California belongs to an extinct species of whale that lived between 4 and 7 million years ago.

The seven-ton fossil was unearthed in June during a construction excavation at the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County Waste & Recycling announced in a statement.

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