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Science • Jun 03

Strong Flare Erupts from Sun

The Sun emitted strong solar flare, peaking at 7:28 a.m. ET on June 3. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly,...

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Science • Jun 03

World's largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils

What is the largest scorpion in the world? New research reveals that the biggest ever scorpion is Praearcturus gigas, which was more than a meter long.

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Science • Jun 03

NASA Says Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission, Hosts Media Call Today

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more...

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Science • Jun 03

Thought of the day from French philosopher Blaise Pascal: "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room"

I came across Pascal's line again the other day and did the thing you do with a good quote: nodded, felt a little seen, moved on.

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Science • Jun 03

Sky Watch: View Two Planets in Conjunction June 8–9

You might have noticed a couple of bright lights in the western sky as evening twilight sets in, and they're a powerful pair: Jupiter and Venus.

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Science • Jun 03

Astronomers uncover statistical evidence for recoiling supermassive black holes

Galactic collisions are events of breathtaking proportions. The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers plunge into a chaotic orbital dance that...

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Science • Jun 03

Amateur sleuth exposes basic blunder in scores of cancer studies

An amateur sleuth has revealed how scientists appear to have botched hundreds of studies, including cancer research, by using the wrong ingredient in their...

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Science • Jun 03

A tongue-eating louse called Cymothoa exigua swims into a fish's gills, latches onto its tongue, drinks the blood until the tongue withers and falls off, and then spends the rest of its life acting as a functional replacement tongue the fish uses normally to eat.

Cymothoa exigua, a small marine crustacean, enters fish through the gills, eats the tongue from the inside out, and then takes its place.

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Science • Jun 03

Astrophotographer captures breathtaking view of 548 galaxies from a balcony

Astrophotographer Cornelis Van Zuilen captured a spectacular view of the "Leo Triplet" galaxies, after 60 hours spent observing their ancient light from his...

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Science • Jun 03

Violating the 3rd law of black hole mechanics in vacuum gravity

Black holes, regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, have been widely studied over the past decades, due to their unique and...

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Science • Jun 03

Report Warns Against Lunar Mass Drivers: 'Unassailable, Undetectable First Strike Platform'

The American Foreign Policy Council has released a new report reviewing recent proposals to deploy cargo catapults on the Moon. The report sounds the alarm,...

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Science • Jun 03

This star system creates a rare triple eclipse. Here's what that would look like

A triple star system in which the stars all eclipse one another from our vantage point is standing out as one of the best studied stellar trios.

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Science • Jun 03

'Totally counterintuitive': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life

In an astronomical first, researchers have measured the magnetic fields of seven "hot Jupiter" planets beyond our solar system — adding new clues in the...

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Science • Jun 03

Pluto takes about 248 Earth years to circle the Sun, which means it still hasn't completed a single orbit since we found it — and won't finish that first lap until the year 2178

On 18 February 1930, a young man named Clyde Tombaugh sat at a blink comparator in Flagstaff, Arizona, and noticed a faint point of light that had shifted...

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Science • Jun 03

One of the earliest great extinctions in Earth's history may have been caused not by an asteroid or a volcano but by oxygen itself, when tiny photosynthetic microbes slowly filled the air with a gas that was poison to much of the anaerobic life that ruled the planet

Around 2.4 billion years ago, the air over Earth began to change. Microbes in the oceans, the cyanobacteria, had been running a chemical reaction that split...

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Science • Jun 03

The Pacific Ocean is so large that all the world’s land could fit inside it, and there would still be room left over, which is why calling Earth a “blue planet” is almost an understatement

Lay every continent and island on the planet side by side, and the total land area comes to roughly 149 million square kilometres. The Pacific Ocean...

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Science • Jun 03

6,300 of Allah's 100,000 Planets

Whether you believe in God or not, you have to accept that some uncreated entity, outside our physical universe, resulted in the origin of our universe over...

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Science • Jun 03

JWST proves that black holes really do come before galaxies

Everywhere we look in the Universe, in all directions and at all distances, we find the same thing: galaxies. These galaxies come in a wide variety of sizes...

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Science • Jun 03

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the sky into a weapon, and the worst damage may have come after the impact itself was already over

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate platform near what is now Chicxulub,...

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Science • Jun 03

World’s largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils

Praearcturus gigas was among the first large predators to ever stalk the land, measuring over a metre in length.

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