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Science • Aug 05

Channel Islands eclipse a 'once or twice in a lifetime' event

A Guernsey astronomer has urged people to make the most of a "once or twice in a lifetime" partial solar eclipse as the next total eclipse visible from the...

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Science • Aug 05

Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it?

"The best strategy is prevention first. Keep as much dust as possible outside the habitat, remove it quickly when it gets in, monitor airborne particles,...

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Science • Aug 05

US team achieves 87% nuclear fusion reactor wall purity using plasma and 1472°F heat

Researchers develop a technique using neon plasma and heat to decontaminate porous tungsten reactor tiles after installation.

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Science • Aug 05

Monkeys keep pets too – animal specialist on the world of interspecies friendship

It's not just humans who enjoy interacting with other animal species.

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Science • Aug 05

Total solar eclipse: how to watch live from home

A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe. The European Space Agency (ESA) will broadcast live from 19:30 CEST on 12 August, allowing you to experience this...

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Science • Aug 05

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time.

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Science • Aug 05

Venus's polygonal plains could point to a watery past

Venus may be overwhelmingly inhospitable today, but many planetary scientists believe that it wasn't always this way. Billions of years ago,...

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Science • Aug 05

Bees have never been documented nesting inside animal bone in the history of paleontology, until researchers found six nests stacked inside one 20,000-year-old tooth socket

A fossil tooth socket in a Caribbean cave reveals an unexpected architect: bees that nested inside animal bone for millennia, a behavior never before...

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Science • Aug 05

A new Ice Age toad has been found in LA. Why the discovery matters

The spadefoot's presence here more than 1 million years ago is helping researchers understand how the Ice Age changed our region.

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Science • Aug 05

Astronaut Snaps Photo of Super Typhoon on His iPhone

Astronaut Anil Menon captured a mind-boggling photo showing a super typhoon brooding above the Pacific Ocean.

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Science • Aug 05

Global Warming Has Kicked Into Overdrive, Scientists Warn

At this rate, we could breach the warming limit set by the Paris Agreement before 2030.

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Science • Aug 05

There's One Predator That Terrifies Bears And Mountain Lions Alike

The wilds of North America can be a hazardous place. It's there that some of the most intimidating predators make their home – black and brown bears that...

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Science • Aug 05

When a NASA microphone recorded the first sounds on Mars in 2021 it found something unexpected: sound above about 240 hertz travels roughly ten metres a second faster, so high-pitched parts of a sound can arrive before the bass

The thin Martian atmosphere doesn't just muffle sound—it scrambles it, separating high and low frequencies as they travel.

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Science • Aug 05

It spans 6000 km of the coasts of Portugal, Spain, France and Italy and houses billions of individuals – the animal that builds cities

Ant hills made by the yellow meadow ant, and the heaped leaf-litter nests of, always look impressive but pale into insignificance compared with the...

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Science • Aug 05

This school-bus-sized “terror croc” ate dinosaurs. Now it’s back

A massive crocodilian capable of attacking dinosaurs has been brought back to life as the first scientifically accurate mounted skeleton of Deinosuchus...

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Science • Aug 05

1 week away from the peak of the Perseid meteor shower; where to look and when | 13Weather Blog

INDIANAPOLIS — It peaks Aug. 12-13! We're one week out from the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, and for the first time in a while, everything is lining...

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Science • Aug 05

Country diary: A beetle with a prehensile anus? Thanks to local wildlife recorders, I know one lives here

Ceredigion: Let's sing the praises of this network of volunteers who move slowly and look hard, gathering vital wildlife data – and finding fantastic...

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Science • Aug 05

Hidden beneath Antarctic ice, a red brine pool contains marine microbial DNA, supporting evidence of an a

Science News: Researchers uncover a red brine pool in Antarctica's Dry Valleys containing DNA from ancient marine bacteria, revealing a hidden ecosystem and...

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Science • Aug 05

10 Ancient Earth Events That Sound Like Sci-Fi Plot Devices

Science fiction has long imagined alien landscapes, apocalyptic disasters, and monstrous ecosystems. Yet some of the strangest scenarios ever conceived.

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Science • Aug 05

Why does roughly 27 million tonnes of desert dust cross an ocean each year to fertilise a rainforest on the other side of the planet?

A barren desert thousands of miles away holds the secret to keeping the world's lungs alive, through an invisible annual transfer of nutrients that rivals...

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