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Kononenko was joined by another cosmonaut, Nikolai Chub, along with NASA's Tracy Caldwell Dyson in the landing. His tenure obliterates the previous record held by his fellow Russian Gennady Padalka, who hit 878 cumulative days back in 2015. The 60-year-old space veteran accomplished this feat across five separate missions stretching back to 2008.

It’s about studying space junk.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, took an innovative approach by examining two groups of individuals with focal brain lesions resulting from injuries or disorders. One cohort consisted of 106 Vietnam veterans who suffered traumatic brain injuries in combat decades ago. The other included 84 patients from rural Iowa who experienced strokes, surgical complications, or other brain injuries.

Study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322399121

Women with premature ovarian insufficiency condition are more likely to develop conditions such as diabetes and lupus

Study: https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/deae213/7774591

It even comes with a cartridge slot.

I'm not quite sure how my Stardew Valley experience applies, but Sir yes Sir!

Dom't turn your hobbies into full-time jobs, kids

US physicists show how immense pulse of radiation could vaporise the side of asteroid and nudge it off course

The details of solar’s expansion are even more surprising

Not every country is riding the solar power rocket to the sun just yet. Individual countries have seen peaks and dips in solar installations based on how well their economies are doing and how strong their policy incentives are, like feed-in tariffs, net metering, and tax credits.

In the past couple of years, the global story has really been about China. Add up every solar panel installed in the US in history and you get how much China installed last year alone, almost 60 percent of all new solar installed in the world. The sheer scale of this deployment broke a lot of forecasters’ models.

After being medically evacuated from Gaza, a few children with life-altering injuries have arrived at MSF's reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan, where they are receiving comprehensive and long-term care.

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the Paleozoic Era that spanned 41.6 million years, from roughly 485.4 million years ago to about 443.8 million years ago.

Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X24004230

Ken Wilson had been trying to conserve electricity in order to lower his utility bill, but it was still stubbornly high

The leading idea is that gravity arises from the exchange of hypothetical "graviton" particles, much like electromagnetism arises from the exchange of photons. However, gravitons have always been considered too difficult to observe because they interact with matter very weakly, similar to neutrinos.

Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51420-8

The state is grappling with the legacy of a surgeon who allegedly mutilated an Aboriginal man's remains.

MRI scans found girls’ brains appeared 4.2 years older than expected, compared with 1.4 years for boys

Study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2403200121

Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died.

Indy Nelson set a record for most airlines flown and said he was detained by Iran, Russia, Libya and Papua New Guinea

Scientists working on the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have identified the detector's first neutrino interactions.

The prevalence of slot machines – known as pokies – in pubs and clubs across the country and betting on sport has created a culture of wagering

First salvage expedition in years captures more than 2m high-resolution images of 1912 shipwreck

Police tracked down long-lost fingerprint evidence, solving mystery of ‘Pinnacle Man’ whose body was found in 1977

The name Africa was given to the continent by European explorers, exploiters, slavers and colonists. It ignores the indigenous people and their accomplishments.

Research paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2021.2017262?needAccess=true