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Science • May 23

All Animals, Plants, And Fungi May Share A Common Ancestor Known As The "Asgardians"

From humans and dinosaurs to starfish and seagrass, we may all be Asgardian.

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Science • May 23

Oceans are heating faster than we think

Why seas keep rising: A new model shows that reduced low cloud cover and melting sea ice allow more solar heat into oceans, locking in sea level rise for...

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Science • May 23

Stephen Hawking’s dad reveals super genius was lazy kid who ‘didn’t study,’ lounged around too much: biography

Super genius Stephen Hawking was a lazy kid who "didn't study much," his dad said in a new biography.

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Science • May 23

I spent years assuming my personality was fixed — then I learned what neuroplasticity actually means and realised I had been maintaining myself like a finished product instead of a living system

The adult human brain contains somewhere between 86 and 100 billion neurons. Each of those neurons can form thousands of synaptic connections.

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Science • May 23

A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age

A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a sophisticated stone-tool industry,...

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Science • May 23

A rare ‘Blue Moon’ is coming to the night’s sky this month: Here’s how to see it.

The Blue Moon is set to dazzle as May's second full moon of the month.

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Science • May 23

NASA reorganization shuffle combines programs, lands KSC new director

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined a major overhaul of the agency's structure that included a new director for Kennedy Space Center.

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Science • May 23

In 1908, something exploded in the sky over Siberia with hundreds of times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb, flattening more than 2,000 square kilometres of forest. When scientists finally reached the site years later, they found no crater at all

On the morning of 30 June 1908, an object from space exploded above the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia.

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Science • May 23

Extreme 8.5-minute orbit reveals white dwarf being torn apart by its binary companion

A team of U.S. astronomers has observed a binary pair of white dwarfs where one star is actively devouring material from the other.

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Science • May 23

The human genome contains traces of ancient viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago — and some of those viral leftovers were later repurposed into genes that help make human pregnancy possible

Both halves of this claim are well supported, and neither rests on a single study. About 8 percent of the human genome, by the standard estimate,...

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Science • May 23

A glacier bigger than Washington state is melting faster than ever. The implications are dire

A huge glacier in West Antarctica is on the verge of losing its ice shelf, scientists warn, which would speed up the collapse of the “doomsday glacier” and...

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Science • May 23

SpaceX targets next California rocket launch after Memorial Day weekend

If you're looking for something fun to do after Memorial Day weekend you may try catching a rocket launch from California. SpaceX is planning to get its...

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Science • May 23

Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration

A 45 kilometer ice shelf attached to the Thwaites glacier is visibly breaking away from the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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Science • May 23

Massive 'X' and 'V' shapes will appear on the moon tonight — here's how to see them

A massive letter "X" and "V" will appear on the moon's surface on May 23 thanks to a strange "clair-obscur" trick of the light! Here's how to see it.

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Science • May 23

Research Paper Warns That There's a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth's Climate

While scientists debate the risks of tampering with our climate, scientists say there's already a huge geoengineering experiment unfolding.

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Science • May 23

Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate

The idea of manually tampering with our atmosphere to combat climate change, such as by seeding clouds with reflective particles to dim the Sun,...

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Science • May 23

Emergence of new cavefish species challenges evolutionary dead-end idea

A new Yale study identifies a distinct species of eyeless cavefish, a discovery that challenges long-held conventional wisdom that caves and other...

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Science • May 23

The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they’ve found the scraps

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new research.

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Science • May 23

The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they’ve found the scraps

An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago.

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Science • May 23

Curious Kids: Why did Tyrannosaurus rex have such short arms?

T. rex was a successful carnivorous species that existed for over a million years.

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