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Science • Jun 01

Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada

People from Delaware to Montreal reported either hearing loud booms or seeing the fireball in the sky over weekend.

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists Discover Surprising Similarities Between Freud’s Ideas and Modern Neuroscience

Researchers suggest that old psychoanalytic ideas and modern brain science may be describing the same mental processes from different angles.

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Science • Jun 01

Meteor causes explosion reports, sightings from Delaware to Montreal

Reports of an explosion from people across New England on Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double...

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Science • Jun 01

Cats can't taste sweetness — evolution turned off the relevant gene in their distant ancestors when they became obligate carnivores, and without working sweet receptors, a cat is as indifferent to sugar as a person is to ultraviolet light

Cats are notoriously indifferent to sweet things. Pour syrup near a dog and the dog will investigate. Pour syrup near a cat and the cat will ignore it.

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Science • Jun 01

New 7-Dimensional Theory May Finally Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox

A new theoretical study suggests that black holes may never completely disappear, potentially offering a way to resolve the long-standing black hole...

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Science • Jun 01

Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary

Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are coherent bursts of polarized radio emission that repeat periodically on timescales of minutes to hours.

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Science • Jun 01

Astronomers might have decoded a mysterious signal from space

Something in the universe is sending powerful, regular bursts towards Earth – and now researchers think they have decoded what it is.

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Science • Jun 01

Late Miocene Euphrates River drained into a partially desiccated eastern Mediterranean

Although the Euphrates River—stretching ~3000 km across Western Asia—has shaped the region's geology for millions of years, the timing of its origin and the...

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Science • Jun 01

Webb sniffs methane from interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has collected its first chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object during a recent revisit to Comet 3I/ATLAS...

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists may have just solved the Euphrates River’s mysterious origins

New research has revealed insight into the evolution of this influential waterway, which may have been created when two ancient rivers coalesced.

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'

The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient rivers around 3.6 million years...

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'

The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient rivers around 3.6 million years...

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Science • Jun 01

NASA’s Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has collected its first mid-infrared chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object during a recent revisit to comet...

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Science • Jun 01

'I started strength training at 65 – now I'm a 67-year-old grandma and stronger than ever'

Irene Duncan began losing balance in strength in her early 60s. Here's how strength training transformed her life at 65.

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Science • Jun 01

Meteorite heard in Massachusetts landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod Bay," NASA says

The meteorite​ that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday ​landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod Bay," NASA researchers​ say.

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Science • Jun 01

Japanese Spacecraft Heading Towards Asteroid 1998 KY26 – But A New Paper Claims It Will Find An Object Of Technological Origin

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is heading towards its final target; a small, rapidly rotating asteroid, believed to be around the size of a spacecraft.

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Science • Jun 01

One of our planets may be missing, and it could explain why the solar system looks the way it does

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published in the journal Icarus,...

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Science • Jun 01

A Repeating Radio Pulse Turns Out to Be Two Stars Locked in a Death Spiral

Every 80 minutes or so, a faint patch of sky toward the constellation Ara flickers. A burst of radio waves, sharply polarized, lasting a few minutes, then.

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Science • Jun 01

About 63 light-years away there is a deep-blue world that looks deceptively like Earth from a distance, but on the planet HD 189733b the temperature reaches 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit and the winds scream at thousands of miles an hour

Point the right instrument at HD 189733b and the colour that comes back is a deep cobalt blue, the kind of blue a person who grew up with photographs of...

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists discover inherited traits that break Mendel’s Laws of genetics

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules of genetics.

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