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Science • Jun 04

In September 2023 a mega-tsunami in Greenland sent tremors around the entire planet for nine days and scientists have only just confirmed how

In September 2023, seismometers across the globe began picking up a signal no one recognised. It arrived every 90 seconds, like a slow mechanical pulse,...

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Science • Jun 04

Costa Rica paid landowners to restore forests and biodiversity—bioacoustics indicate that it worked

Forest restoration can help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity, but the satellite-based techniques used to measure successful forest...

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Science • Jun 04

The Exploration Company is Developing a Reusable Heavy-Lift Rocket

The Exploration Company has revealed plans for Yrene, a reusable heavy-lift rocket powered by its new Storm engines.

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Science • Jun 04

After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation,...

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Science • Jun 04

Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen.

In less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches. That shouldn't happen. So why did it?

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Science • Jun 04

Did NASA Miss Viking’s Discovery of Life on Mars?

Mainstream scientists warn us about false positives, namely misleading claims for interesting signals that are not substantiated by sufficient evidence.

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Science • Jun 04

Jupiter bow shock reveals electrons accelerating to relativistic speeds

Electrons around Jupiter have been caught in the process of being accelerated, revealing a potentially unified mechanism for particle acceleration.

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Science • Jun 04

'They weren't burned by accident': 5,500-Year-Old Pyrenees Cave Camp Uncovered

Archaeologists excavating Cova 338 in the Pyrenees have uncovered a 5500-year-old copper processing camp, prehistoric jewelry, and child remains.

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Science • Jun 04

In Antarctica, Scientists Just Discovered a Massive Hidden Structure Deep Below the Frozen Surface

A massive, semi-continent-sized subsurface structure has been discovered by scientists beneath Antarctica's frozen surface.

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Science • Jun 04

Astronomers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about the Milky Way’s black hole

At the heart of our home galaxy lurks a gigantic black hole that's more than a trillion times heavier than Earth, with all that mass stuffed into a region...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA's dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It's not the only probe in the Mars morgue

NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here's the fate that awaits the probe.

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Science • Jun 04

NASA reveals new findings about meteor that exploded over Massachusetts

NASA said in an update Wednesday that their findings suggest this was an iron meteorite. More on the latest update from the space agency below.

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Science • Jun 04

Evidence Earth’s Closest Exoplanets Have Enormous Magnetic Fields Revives Prospects For Life On Proxima b

The spectrum produced by Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, has been interpreted as indicating the planets Proxima b and d both have magnetic...

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Science • Jun 04

Huge Kraken-like Octopus may have ruled the seas 72 million years ago

A new study finds a giant octopus may have prowled the seas 72 million years ago and may have been at the top of the food chain.

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Science • Jun 04

Quantum shell structure reveals new rule for proton-neutron pairing inside nuclei

Nuclear physicists used a little magic in their latest experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator...

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Science • Jun 04

Meteors are 'extremely common.' What makes the one over New England 'rare'?

A sonic boom shook Boston and the larger New England area with the force of 230 tons of TNT. The source came from outer space. The Saturday afternoon event...

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Science • Jun 04

In December 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe became the first spacecraft to transmit from another planet, sending 23 minutes of faint temperature data from Venus after a torn parachute tipped it onto its side and buried its signal in what engineers first dismisse

"content": "On 15 December 1970, a 500-kilogram titanium capsule shaped like a pressure cooker hit the surface of Venus at around 17 metres per second after...

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Science • Jun 04

This Clever New Engine Could Send Briefcase-Size Spacecraft to Mars

Engineers at MIT have developed a two-in-one propulsion system that can fuel both traditional chemical thrusters and electrical thrusters, combining speed...

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Science • Jun 04

Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago

A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what's now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about an unusual group of predatory dinosaurs known as...

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Science • Jun 04

Cosmic Tryst: Venus Meets Jupiter at Dusk

Don't miss the convergence of the two brightest planets at dusk in early June. It's a familiar annual question, that we're already hearing as we enter into...

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