Science

Science • Jul 02

Hubble telescope spots 'impossible' light from a galaxy that shouldn't have been visible

Astronomers have spotted an ancient galaxy shining through the cosmic fog of the early universe, revealing a detailed view that was thought to be impossible...

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Science • Jul 02

‘Bizarre’ planet orbiting dead star may preview fate of our solar system

New observations may offer fresh clues into how a giant exoplanet survived the violent death of its host star — and came to closely orbit its stellar...

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Science • Jul 02

NASA needs volunteers to spend a year locked in a Mars simulation

The space agency has put out a call for its Moon & Mars Exploration Analog, which recreates the challenges of a long-duration space mission.

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Science • Jul 02

A Sea Anemone Uses CARDIB to Fight Viruses—and It’s Even More Bizarre Than It Sounds

Floating outside the salt marsh silt it usually nestles in, the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) looks a little bit like a miniature squid or...

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Science • Jul 02

Scientists Thought Ravens Followed Wolves for Food. They Were Wrong. Ravens Predict Them

New GPS tracking suggests ravens navigate Yellowstone using a mental map of wolf kills.

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Science • Jul 02

Forty Thousand Cubic Meters of Fresh Water Flow from the Congo into the Atlantic Every Second. A New Study Traces Where It Goes from There

The Congo River is the second largest river in the world, releasing an average of 40,000 cubic meters of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Science • Jul 02

Here's why the South Pole froze over before the North Pole

While it once was temperate and lush, Earth's southernmost continent Antarctica froze over about 34 million years ago, covered by an ice sheet that today is...

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Science • Jul 02

'Stellar death is not the end': James Webb Space Telescope glimpses the fate of the solar system in a weird exoplanet orbiting a dead star

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a dead star, a white dwarf, located some 80...

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Science • Jul 02

Why NASA Is Launching a Mission to Save a Quarter-Billion Dollar Space Telescope

The Swift observatory has been in orbit for 22 years but it's on track to fall from the skies. Here's what to know about NASA's mission.

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Science • Jul 02

Dynamic black holes may obey Hawking-style thermodynamics with an alternative entropy measure

Of the known things in the universe, black holes are among the most extreme. They pack huge amounts of mass densely into a small area, producing gravity...

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Science • Jul 02

University of Minnesota scientists create first synthetic cell that can complete a life cycle

Scientists at the University of Minnesota say they've made the first synthetic cell that can complete a life cycle, a major breakthrough that could lead to...

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Science • Jul 02

Scientists Find the Grossest, Most Efficient Way to Clean a Skeleton

When cleaning up animal skeletons for museum display, curators have several options. They could use chemicals or enzymes to dissolve the leftover flesh or...

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Science • Jul 02

Pre-4th fireworks? Northern lights possible tonight/Friday night

In the midst of a heat wave, our Sun has been quite active in another arena. A pair of very large sunspot clusters have been traversing the Earthside...

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Science • Jul 02

A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy cluster has erupted after approximately 100 million years of complete silence, unleashing a jet of magnetised plasma across nearly a million light-years of space in what the astronomers who observed it have descr

Every large galaxy in the observable universe is thought to host a supermassive black hole at its centre. Most of the time, on the available observational...

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Science • Jul 02

Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.

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Science • Jul 02

Quantum gravity tests may mistake ordinary spacetime for superposition

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics...

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Science • Jul 02

Astronomers discover a potentially habitable planet just 25 light-years away. 'This one is exciting'

Astronomers discovered a planet 25 light-years away that orbits within the habitable zone of its star that could potentially support liquid water and...

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Science • Jul 02

Northern lights could dazzle to start July 4 weekend

Sure, you may be hoping to see fireworks or a drone show over the July 4 weekend, but nature may be gearing up to give you its own colorful nighttime...

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Science • Jul 02

Demographers estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born, which means the roughly 8 billion of us alive today are about 7% of everyone who has ever lived

Start with a single number: about 117 billion. That is the Population Reference Bureau's estimate for how many people have ever been born on Earth.

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Science • Jul 02

James Webb telescope may have discovered a never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan

A mysterious wavelength of light is missing from the dwarf planet Pluto and Saturn's supersized moon Titan, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...

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