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Science • Apr 28

Scientists Found 40,000-Year-Old Frozen Microbes in an Alaska Tunnel...Six Months Later, They Became Active Again

These microbes spent 40000 years trapped in ice beneath Alaska. Once thawed, their delayed reaction surprised researchers.

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Science • Apr 28

Darkness can travel faster than light

Dark points within light waves can travel faster than the waves themselves. This finding, which is based on new measurements by researchers at Technion...

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Science • Apr 28

'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs

In this excerpt from The Story of Birds, author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds...

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Science • Apr 28

Astronomers release massive set of 'virtual universes' for global research

Understanding the universe as a whole requires simulations on cosmic scales. An international team of astrophysicists, with a leading role for researchers...

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Science • Apr 28

Scientists May Have Solved Where Earth’s Building Blocks Came From

Scientists find Earth formed mainly from inner Solar System material, with little input from outer regions, based on new isotopic analysis.

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Science • Apr 28

Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe

Physicists in China claim to have simulated a "false vacuum decay" event using a lab-based "tabletop" experiment.

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Science • Apr 28

ALMA reveals giant molecular clouds across Needle galaxy's full disk

An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to perform high-resolution observations of the...

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Science • Apr 28

We’ve Been Wrong About T. Rex Since Jurassic Park: Scientists Say It Moved More Like an Ostrich Than a Giant Reptile

Scientists just rewrote everything Hollywood taught us about T. rex. The real predator moved nothing like the movies showed, and the truth is far stranger.

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Science • Apr 28

SpaceX eyes launch of Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida coast

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – After weather forced a scrub on Monday, SpaceX is targeting a Wednesday morning Falcon Heavy launch from Florida's Space Coast.

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Science • Apr 28

What is a micromoon? We have 2 coming in May

A micromoon is a full or new moon that occurs when the moon is roughly at its farthest from Earth in its orbit. The moon takes about a month to orbit Earth...

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Science • Apr 28

Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they're visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be...

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Science • Apr 28

Fossil reveals 180 million-year-old dolphin-like sea monster that survived despite injuries

Scientists have discovered the remains of a giant marine reptile that grew up to over 20ft in length and terrorised the seas over 180 million years ago,...

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Science • Apr 28

Jupiter Technically Does Not Orbit The Sun. A Lot Of Time, Neither Does The Earth.

When you're that massive, you don't have to orbit the Sun.

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Science • Apr 28

Binary stars create truly comfortable systems

According to a new study by astrophysicists at the University of Lancashire, planets may indeed form more easily around binary stars than around single...

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Science • Apr 28

Corrosion problem affects Gateway and commercial space station modules

A manufacturing issue involving a European company has resulted in corrosion in modules for both the lunar Gateway and a commercial space station.

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Science • Apr 28

Poleward migration of warm Circumpolar Deep Water towards Antarctica | Communications Earth & Environment

The upwelling of warm Circumpolar Deep Water is a key process in the global climate system, transporting heat, nutrients, and carbon poleward towards...

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Science • Apr 28

The universe may end trillions of years sooner than we thought

Recent surveys hint that the rate of cosmic expansion changes dramatically over time; if that's true, then the universe could end much sooner than we...

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Science • Apr 28

Could the moon ever be blockaded? Experts predict cislunar space could be the next Strait of Hormuz

The ongoing military conflict regarding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz may well mirror a future situation off-Earth — the use of cislunar space, the region...

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Science • Apr 28

AI detects thousands of exoplanet candidates in data from the TESS space telescope

Scientists were able to analyze data on the brightness of tens of millions of stars observed by the TESS space telescope.

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Science • Apr 28

Deep-ocean Heat is Closing in on Antarctica

A new decades-long study, based on long-term ocean measurements collected by ships and robotic floating devices, shows that a warm mass called “circumpolar...

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