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Sun releases massive solar flare, triggering blackouts and Northern Lights alerts

A coronal mass ejection is expected to shoot past Earth on Tuesday night, with parts of the plume glancing the atmosphere.

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Science • May 12

World’s first nuclear bomb explosion by US Army resulted in rare crystal formation

When the first nuclear bomb exploded at the Trinity site in 1945, it turned the desert sand into a unique laboratory for impossible science.

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Science • May 12

Microplastics absorb heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming — as if they weren't bad enough

Climate scientists have discovered that microplastics and nanoplastics are helping to drive global warming by absorbing sunlight and radiation in the...

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Science • May 12

Birds Never Evolved ‘Perfect’ Wings, Study Finds

For most birds, it seems "good enough is good enough when it comes to flight."

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Science • May 12

Method for measuring energy amounts less than a trillionth of a billionth of a joule could boost quantum computing

The fundamentals of quantum mechanics are minuscule. Scientists constantly home in on finer resolutions to measure, quantify, and control these fundamentals...

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Science • May 12

Hubble finds something about the Milky Way's core just doesn't add up

The Milky Way's core doesn't look like the ancient stellar graveyard many astronomers once thought it was. At the heart of a massive new survey from NASA's...

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Science • May 12

"Any animals standing within 1,500km of the impact would have been instantly vaporised." 10 deadly, terrifying times to be alive...

Over the course of its 4.5-billion-year history, the Earth has witnessed its fair share of terrible times…

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Science • May 12

I'm a Meta data scientist. My Ph.D sets me apart in Big Tech — but I wouldn't recommend my path to everyone.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Anand Ramanathan, who works at Meta and lives in New Jersey. The following has been edited for length...

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Science • May 12

Ancient bacterial toolkit links human gut health to ocean carbon cycling

Our gut is colonized by legions of bacteria, which supply us with essential nutrients and support our health. Among them are Akkermansia bacteria,...

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Science • May 12

Stunning fossil discovery challenges the origins of animal life

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early animal life.

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Science • May 12

The discovery of an atmosphere on a tiny Kuiper belt world

A relatively tiny world in the Kuiper belt, just 500 km in diameter, has an atmosphere after all, joining Pluto. Here's what we know today.

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Science • May 12

James Webb telescope reveals the clearest map ever of the Universe’s cosmic web

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe's “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that...

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Science • May 12

First Signatures of a Future Tectonic Split Are Bubbling Up In Zambia

Hundreds of millions of years ago, our world looked very different from the way it does today. The continents were joined together in a supercontinent...

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Science • May 12

A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa

Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the Earth's mantle, a sign of a rupture...

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Science • May 12

New tectonic plate boundary could be forming in Zambia, scientists say

The gas in hot springs could reveal the very first signs of a new tectonic plate boundary forming. By testing helium and carbon isotopes from geothermal...

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Science • May 12

Australia’s Cloudy Beauty

Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.

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Science • May 12

Solving hard problems in soft electronics

Recent MIT graduate Camille Cunin's research in bioelectronics and materials science transforms rigid electrical engineering into soft electronics that...

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Science • May 12

South Texas will go dark during May 11 eclipse—but you've got time

Part of Texas will see a total solar eclipse on May 11, 2078, with totality crossing the Rio Grande Valley.

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Science • May 11

Unexplored interactions between electrons and atomic nuclei shed light on dark matter

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study conducted by junior group leader,...

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Science • May 11

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office

Updated May 11, 5:07 p.m. EDT (2107 UTC): Added some additional context from the NRO. The National Reconnaissance Office is set to fly its 13th mission...

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