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Science • Jun 02

Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth

A gigantic "blazar" may have fired a beam of light-speed particles at our planet, creating a 2023 "ghost particle" detection.

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Science • Jun 02

Massive fireball meteor lights up Ohio skies Monday night

TOLEDO, Ohio — A bright fireball meteor lit up the night sky Monday across northern Ohio and southern Michigan, generating hundreds of reports from...

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Science • Jun 02

Molecular glasses solve long-standing Arrhenius paradox

Glasses are non-crystalline but solid states of matter in which molecules and atoms are not arranged into a regular crystal lattice, but rather in a...

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Science • Jun 02

Mystery of Bible's legendary Garden of Eden river finally solved after 1.6m years

Scientists have solved the 1.6-million-year-old mystery of how the Bible's iconic Euphrates River formed following ancient tectonic shifts and mega-floods.

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Science • Jun 02

Fireball spotted across Illinois and 8 other states Monday night, nearly 200 reports filed

Sightings of a fireball were reported across Illinois and at least eight other states on Monday night.

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Science • Jun 02

Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian

Across invertebrates, DNA methylation is largely restricted to the bodies of highly and constitutively expressed genes. This pattern has led to the...

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists Discover a Hidden Cause of Cellular Aging That Can Be Reversed

Scientists identified phosphatidylcholine loss as a key driver of mitochondrial aging and showed that restoring it can rejuvenate cellular energy networks.

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Science • Jun 02

Uncertainty about weakening Atlantic currents isn’t a reason to wait but to act (commentary)

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the system of ocean currents that mediates weather on both sides of the Atlantic, and research...

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Science • Jun 02

Astronomers discover exoplanets with magnetic fields

Based on the behavior of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest evidence to date that planets beyond our solar...

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Science • Jun 02

This fish species survived 100,000 years without males. Scientists thought it should be long dead – but it's thriving

All-female species have been long thought to be evolutionary dead ends. So how has one remarkable fish survived for 100,000 years without males?

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Science • Jun 02

Scientists took water samples from a pier in California – and made a surprising discovery about a "ruthless predator"

There's a "ruthless predator" in the ocean that harpoons its prey and feasts on the toxic algae that can harm ecosystems when it forms huge blooms.

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Science • Jun 02

Webb Telescope snaps interstellar comet – proves it's like nothing we've ever seen in our own Solar System

NASA has released the results of the James Webb Space Telescope's observations of 3I/ATLAS, and the data confirms the comet is like nothing we see in our...

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Science • Jun 02

The ‘Blaze Star’ May Be Days Away From Erupting Into View

Is a star about to explode in the night sky? If predictions come true, T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) could become visible for a few days or weeks in late-June...

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Science • Jun 02

Deep-space water reservoir contains trillions of times more water than all Earth’s oceans combined

Astronomers found the largest known water reservoir around a distant quasar, revealing extreme conditions in the early universe.

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Science • Jun 02

Parts of Canada are quietly short on gravity. The standard story blames an ice sheet that pressed the crust down and vanished thousands of years ago, but satellites suggest that explains less than half of it. The rest comes from something churning far deeper in

Parts of Canada are quietly short on gravity. The familiar explanation blames an ice sheet that pressed the crust down and then melted away thousands of...

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Science • Jun 02

Green Anaconda: The world's largest snake and the sacred creator of the Amazon

Animals & Pets News: Some animals inspire fear, and then there are animals that inspire cosmologies. The green anaconda, the largest snake in the world,...

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Science • Jun 02

Gravitational wave astronomy is now a fully mature science

In 2016, humanity announced our first successful gravitational wave detection. 10 years and 389 events later, here's how far we've come.

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Science • Jun 02

Potential collapse of AMOC current ‘should be treated as a matter of European security policy’

Germany intends to increase its focus on the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in its future climate risk...

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Science • Jun 02

British Paralympian could be first astronaut with physical disability to live in orbit

John McFall prepares for mission to Haven-1 space station after UK Space Agency signs deal with US startup Vast.

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Science • Jun 02

When Rosetta sniffed the gas around Comet 67P, it found a cloud that would have smelled of rotten eggs, ammonia and bitter almonds — and hidden in that cosmic stink were some of the chemical ingredients that may have helped life begin on Earth

Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft flew alongside Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and analysed the gas streaming off it.

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