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Defying the odds, Japan's SLIM lander survives 2nd night on the moon - By - Mike Wall - published - 29 March 24 - Japan's SLIM lunar lander has survived another night on the moon, despite being designed to die after the first lunar night.

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Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps - 1.2 million times faster than your home broadband connection - By - Keumars Afifi-Sabet - published - 29 March 24 - The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second - equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second - using existing fiber-optic cables.

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Cicada double brood event: What to expect when trillions of bugs emerge in Eastern US - By - Carys Matthews - published - 29 March 24 - When and where will the double cicada brood emerge? Here's what to expect from this rare phenomenon, which occurs only once every 221 years.

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4 ways you can help NASA study the April 8 solar eclipse - By - Jamie Carter - published - 29 March 24 - From observing how the sun works to how animals react to darkness in the daytime, here are 4 simple, NASA-funded science projects you can contribute to during the April 8 total solar eclipse.

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What happens if it's cloudy for the April 8 solar eclipse? By - Joe Rao - published - 28 March 24 - Though everyone is hoping for clear skies, here's what might happen if an eclipse-chaser's worst enemy - clouds - decides to make an appearance.

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Orca calf refuses to leave a lagoon where its mother stranded and died off Vancouver Island - By - Sascha Pare - published - 28 March 24 - Rescuers have been trying to coax a 2-year-old orca from a lagoon off Vancouver Island and back to the ocean for five days, but they only have a 30-minute window every day when waters are high.

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9,000-year-old rock art discovered among dinosaur footprints in Brazil - By - Lobato Felizola - published - 28 March 24 - Ancient hunter-gatherers created rock art next to dinosaur footprints in what is now Brazil.

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Watch rare endangered pink handfish walking in 19th-century shipwreck off Tasmania - By - Elise Poore - published - 28 March 24 - Technical scuba divers found a rare pink handfish hidden among the wreckage of the SS Tasman.

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'Richly decorated' Roman villa with 'curse tablets' and tiny axes unearthed in England - By - Jennifer Nalewicki - published - 28 March 24 - The remains of the ornately decorated Roman buildings contain numerous artifacts, including "curse tablets," tiny axes and a horse-headed belt buckle.

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1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery of 2nd black hole orbiting around it - By - Sharmila Kuthunur - published - 27 March 24 - Scientists found a monster black hole that 'hiccups' every 8.5 days, and a smaller black hole that keeps punching through its accretion disk may be to blame.

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