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What you should know about the moon area where Japan’s lander touched down

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:10:11 +0000

(CNN) — The journey of “Moon Sniper,” the robotic explorer that has made Japan only the fifth country to put a spacecraft safely on the lunar surface, hasn’t gone quite as expected. Though the mission — officially known as the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM — reached its destination last week, an “anomaly” experienced

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Study seems to confirm secret ingredient for better coffee

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 04:26:17 +0000

(CNN) — Coffee connoisseurs have long held the belief that adding a little water to the beans before grinding them could make a difference. A new study by researchers at the University of Oregon seems to confirm exactly why. The research explored how the technique, which started as an attempt to address the often messy

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New York City is sinking due to its million-plus buildings, study says

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Wed, 24 May 2023 03:52:00 +0000

(CNN) — New York City is sinking under the collective weight of all of its buildings, a new study has found. This gradual process could spell trouble for a city around which the sea level has been rising more than twice as fast as the global rate — and is projected to rise between 8 inches

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Newly discovered ‘einstein’ shape can do something no other tile can do

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:21:23 +0000

(CNN)— A geometry problem that has been puzzling scientists for 60 years has likely just been solved by an amateur mathematician with a newly discovered 13-sided shape. Called “The hat” because it vaguely resembles a fedora, the elusive shape is an “einstein” (from the German “ein stein,” or “one stone”). That means it can completely

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Scientists confirm long held theory about what inspired Monet

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:29:52 +0000

(CNN) — In a letter to his wife in March 1901, pioneering French painter Claude Monet lamented the bad weather that prevented him from working, as well as another conspicuous impediment to his creativity. \”Everything is as good as dead, no train, no smoke, no boat, nothing to excite the inspiration a little,\” he wrote.

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Why the A380 superjumbo is staging a comeback

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:19:53 +0000

(CNN) — The post-pandemic recovery of commercial aviation may have an early, unlikely protagonist: the A380 superjumbo. The world’s largest passenger plane seemed to be on the scrapheap just two years ago, as airlines grappled with the spread of the coronavirus. The entire fleet was grounded, many of the planes went into long-term storage, and

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Green jet fuel is here — so why are airlines not using it?

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 07:28:11 +0000

(CNN) — There is a small chance that your next flight will be powered, at least in part, by used cooking oils or agricultural waste. These are among the ingredients of SAF — Sustainable Aviation Fuel — a new type of jet fuel that promises to curb carbon emissions by 80% on average, according to IATA, the

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Can the world’s largest plane ever fly again?

Jacopo Prisco, CNN — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:37:30 +0000

(CNN) — The images of the wrecked Antonov AN-225 are now an indelible memory for aviation enthusiasts worldwide. Built in the 1980s to ferry the Soviet space shuttle, the plane got a second life after the Cold War as the world’s largest cargo transporter, achieving records of all kinds, before being destroyed at the end

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