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Moon landing: US lander successfully touches down in ‘giant leap forward for all of humanity’ | Science & Tech News
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The Odysseus lander has successfully touched down after a “nail-biting” descent saw the first ever privately owned craft reach the moon’s surface. The Intuitive Machines’ lander is also the first US lander to successfully reach the moon in more than 50 years – since the last of NASA’s Apollo programme in 1972. There was applause…
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NASA’s Dart mission successfully shifts asteroid’s orbit after deliberate crash | US News
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NASA has said a spacecraft which deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month has successfully shifted its orbit. Findings of telescope observations showed that the suicide test flight of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on 26 September achieved its primary objective the trajectory of the asteroid. NASA attempted the first test of its…
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Transplant hope for minorities as scientists successfully alter donor kidney blood type | UK News
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Scientists have successfully altered the blood type of three donor kidneys – a breakthrough that could increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant, particularly for ethnic minority groups who are less likely to find a match. A kidney from someone with an A blood type cannot be transplanted to someone with a B blood…
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Conjoined twins who shared fused brains successfully separated in Brazil | World News
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Conjoined twins who shared fused brains have been successfully separated after 33 hours of operations. Bernardo and Arthur Lima underwent several surgeries in Rio de Janeiro, under the direction of UK-based paediatric surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani from London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. The three-year-old boys had a total of seven operations, involving more than…