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Science • Aug 02

The East Asian 'murder hornet' has a credit-card wingspan, a 6mm stinger, and bee-killing jaws

With a wide wingspan and mandibles capable of tearing apart honeybees, the Asian giant hornet has picked up one of the insect world's most unsettling...

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Science • Aug 02

3.2-Gigapixel LSST Camera Captures Over Half a Million Galaxies

The 3.2-gigapixel LSST Camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory photographed the famous COSMOS deep field, seeing over half a million galaxies.

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Science • Aug 02

On this day in space! Aug. 2, 1971: Apollo 15 makes 1st-ever televised liftoff from the moon

On Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time on NASA's Apollo 15 mission, one giant leap for live TV from the moon.

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Science • Aug 02

The tiny Spanish village where darkness will fall twice in one night

With almost no residents, no restaurants and barely any visitors, Avellanosa de Muñó is preparing for one extraordinary night.

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Science • Aug 02

Smart sensor identifies present molecules by remembering the past

Most sensors are designed to do only one thing: detect what passes through them. But what if a sensor could do more? To create a new generation of...

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Science • Aug 02

DESI side project reveals the spectra of disintegrated exoplanets

Using spectral data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), astronomers have gained some of the clearest evidence yet that white dwarf stars...

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Science • Aug 02

NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds temperatures surging just below Io’s volcanic surface

NASA's Juno spacecraft measured heat beneath Io's surface for the first time, finding temperatures rise sharply within just a few feet.

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Science • Aug 02

Hubble telescope takes one of the most detailed looks at neighboring Andromeda galaxy ever — Space photo of the week

Andromeda is the only major galaxy in the universe that is speeding closer to the Milky Way as all the others rush away. Now, a new analysis of Hubble Space...

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Science • Aug 02

The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos

From how galaxies form to the beginnings of the universe, the images from the space telescope are giving cosmologists new data to explore—and theories to...

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Science • Aug 02

Celestron Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian review

Celestron has upped its tabletop telescope game with this new Dobsonian scope, but is it worth the asking price?

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Science • Aug 02

Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA

New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with two mysterious 'ghost'...

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Science • Aug 02

A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all

A photon experiences no time while crossing space, a result that reveals how relativity connects light, motion and the flow of time.

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Science • Aug 02

A 2021 estimate suggested that about 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex lived, while only 32 relatively well-preserved post-juvenile specimens were then held in public museums — roughly one for every 80 million animals. And T. rex is one of the better represente

In 2021 a team of paleontologists led by Charles Marshall at Berkeley did something clever: they estimated not how many T. rex we have dug up,...

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Science • Aug 02

Houston spent nearly 3 billion dollars widening a single freeway to 26 lanes to kill its traffic — and within three years the drive was taking up to 51 per cent longer, proof of a rule planners keep relearning the hard way: you can't build your way out of a traffic jam

The Katy Freeway's 26 lanes and $3 billion price tag offer a cautionary tale: induced demand means more road capacity simply generates more traffic to fill...

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Science • Aug 01

Summer stargazing goes out with a bang in August

The Perseid meteor shower peaks on Aug. 12 and 13.

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Science • Aug 01

The State Parks With Dinosaur Tracks

The State Parks With Dinosaur Tracks range from a climate-controlled dome in Connecticut to Texas riverbed prints that only surface when the water drops...

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Science • Aug 01

The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe

Tech News News: Astronomers have just got their clearest look yet at one of the most studied patches of sky in the world. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory,...

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Science • Aug 01

Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission

We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."

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Science • Aug 01

Discarded SpaceX rocket is on high-speed collision course with the moon

A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.

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Science • Aug 01

A defunct SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon

A defunct SpaceX rocket part is on course to hit the moon within days. It would be just the second known instance of a human-made object unintentionally...

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