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Science • May 20

NASA satellite images uncover dramatic changes in Earth's nighttime lights

Using nearly a decade of satellite observations, NASA's Black Marble project reveals a constantly shifting portrait of human nighttime activity visible from...

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Science • May 20

SpaceX’s sunrise Starlink launch adds 29 satellites to low Earth orbit megaconstellation

Shortly after stage separation on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the payload fairing halves that encapsulated the 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites...

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Science • May 20

Mars shines in ethereal photo from Psyche space probe

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is currently en route to a small, metal-rich asteroid near Jupiter. However, the barely 3,600-pound probe recently required a...

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Science • May 20

A few rocks spotted near a pond in northeastern Thailand in 2016 have just been confirmed as a 27-tonne, 27-metre sauropod — the largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia

In 2016, during the dry season when water levels in a communal pond in northeastern Thailand had receded enough to expose its edges, a local resident in...

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Science • May 20

NASA's Perseverance Rover is ready to complete a Martian marathon

For NASA's Perseverance Rover, life on Mars has been a marathon, not a sprint. For more than five years, the six-wheeled robotic explorer has been steadily...

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Science • May 20

After 10 years of upgrades, this legendary telescope has returned to chase black holes, asteroids and cosmic chemistry

The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964.

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Science • May 20

What if the direction of a magnet could shape the building blocks of life?

In a new discovery, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that something in the direction of...

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Science • May 20

NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some close-up pictures on the way.

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Science • May 20

Mars Express Captured the Most Detailed Images Yet of a 1,300-Kilometer Scar Carved by Ancient Floods on the Red Planet

ESA's Mars Express zooms in on Shalbatana Vallis, a vast Martian scar carved by ancient floodwaters, revealing chaos, craters, and volcanic deposits.

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Science • May 20

Sea level rise is accelerating, scientists confirm

Human-driven climate change is driving the rise of sea levels, worsening flood conditions and threatening coastal communities around the world.

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Science • May 20

Rare Blue Moon to rise in May night sky

We kicked off this month with the full Flower Moon rising on May 1. And now, as a special lunar treat, skywatchers can delight in a second full moon on May...

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Science • May 20

75 Funny Test Fails That Will Make You Laugh Hard

Hello and welcome to this post. We are so happy to have you here. Stay a while, if you can. Pour yourself a drink, throw on some appropriate music,...

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Science • May 20

The Chicxulub impact signature in East Asia - Communications Earth & Environment

The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary is defined by an asteroid impact at 66 million years ago at Chicxulub, Mexico. Despite extensive documentation worldwide,...

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Science • May 20

Map Shows US Cities That Could Go Underwater if Sea Levels Rise 3 Meters

One of the world's largest glaciers may be about to collapse, amplifying concerns about sea level rise as many U.S. cities could be affected.

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Science • May 20

Scientists Are Using Internet Cables For Something They Weren't Built To Do

Internet cables are becoming seismic sensors on land, under the sea, and possibly on the moon. Millions of miles of fiber-optic cable already cover the...

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Science • May 20

How the media hypes “research that is absurd on its face”

Aaron Brown says his new book, Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth from a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation, “isn't an exposé of fraud—Retraction Watch...

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Science • May 20

'The system is likely to reach a breaking point': Major Italian volcano is speeding toward a transition, and a major eruption could be on the way

Campi Flegrei, a volcanic caldera near Naples, is speeding toward a transition, a new study suggests, but there are still a lot of questions as to whether...

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Science • May 20

Dormant volcano suddenly wakes up after 700,000 years of silence

Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700000 years of dormancy.

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Science • May 20

Scientists rethink DNA after discovering it can be built from scratch in a process they call 'doodling'

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template called "doodling," opening new paths for synthetic biology.

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Science • May 20

T. rex’s tiny arms may have evolved for a surprisingly brutal reason

Why did T. rex have such tiny arms? Scientists now think it's because its giant head became the ultimate hunting tool. Across multiple dinosaur groups,...

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