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The saga of the lingering International Space Station air leak has entered a new chapter, and there's hope it will soon be fully vanquished. The bothersome leak has lingered for months, but the ISS crew recently tracked it down to the Russian-built Zvezda service module . Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted Monday that the crew has applied a temporary seal and is "working out a program of operations to permanently seal the leak location." Russian news agency TASS reported last week that cosmonauts used a tea bag to track down the exact location of the leak by following where the bag floated in microgravity. The ISS is currently home to a crew of six made up of two NASA astronauts and four cosmonauts. Three of them will be returning to Earth on Wednesday, including NASA's Chris Cassidy, who is busy practicing his mask-wearing skills in preparation for coming home . CNET Science From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every … [Read more...] about ISS crew temporarily seals air leak that’s haunted the station for months

How It's Made is the best show on television, and that's an objective fact. Fine, it's subjective, but my opinion remains the same. It's the (very safe-for-work) r/powerwashingporn of television in that it's boring, but comforting. I credit it with leading me to my number one favorite way to waste time on the internet: candle carving videos. SEE ALSO: 15 Power-Washing Porn Pics for Clean Satisfaction While perusing ripped How It's Made clips on YouTube one night in 2015, I came across one that highlighted the old craft of decorative, carved candles . In the clip, a skilled candlemaker turns a blob of warm wax into the kind of candle you might find in a display case in your aunt's living room. In just a few minutes, the carver carves ribbons of wax, a teeny windmill, flowers and birds. She even forms the leftover wax into candle shaped like a mushroom! It's delightful! In Cut & Carve Candles: Beautiful Candles to Dip, Carve, Twist & Curl , author Dana … [Read more...] about PSA: Candle-carving videos are the absolute best way to waste time on the internet

A troublesome air leak on the International Space Station may finally get a permanent fix. The small but persistent leak led the ISS crew on quite a chase as they traced the culprit to the Russian-built Zvezda Service Module in 2020. Roscosmos cosmonauts pulled out a drill to help with the repairs. The minor leak appears to have been caused by two tiny cracks in the module's transfer chamber. The chamber includes a docking port for spacecraft. In a statement last week , Roscosmos said one of the cracks was less than an inch long. CNET Science From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every week. Russia currently has two crew members, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, on the station. While drilling into the space station sounds dramatic, it has a practical purpose. "To seal the cracks, two types of sealing paste and sealing material are to be used," Roscosmos said. "The edges of the cracks will be drilled with a 3 millimeter … [Read more...] about Cosmonauts drill into ISS to repair air-leak cracks