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Science • Jul 24

Can We Really Create Infinite Photons? Physicists Reveal What Might Happen if We Try to Cut Light in Half

Photons act in freaky ways that remind us that nothing is as it seems at the smallest scales and most fundamental levels of existence.

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Science • Jul 24

This satellite image of a 'hummingbird' isn't what you think

A newly published satellite image of Antarctica's frozen tundra captured what looks like the plumage of a humble hummingbird in flight.

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Science • Jul 24

Why you should never kill spiders in your home, according to an entomologist

Killing a spider doesn't just cost the arachnid its life, it may take an important predator out of your home.

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Science • Jul 24

Quantum dots reveal hidden light waves on metal surfaces

Photographs can reveal things that are otherwise impossible for the naked eye to see, be they distant galaxies or microscopic cells.

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Science • Jul 24

Juno Measures the Heat Below Io's Restless Surface

Jupiter's moon Io is a strange one. It's the driest object in the Solar System, has the strongest surface gravity in the Solar System, and the highest...

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Science • Jul 24

Algorithms create foundry-ready photonic circuits

Photonic microchips can process data at extremely high speeds and are embedded in a wide variety of today's technologies. Researchers at the Max Planck...

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Science • Jul 24

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

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Science • Jul 24

As Mars’s atmosphere thinned and its surface became cold, dry and irradiated billions of years ago, any surviving microbial life may have found its last refuge underground. Yet the environments most capable of sheltering life could lie metres—or kilometres—b

We may be looking for Martian life in all the wrong places—and at depths we cannot yet reach.

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Science • Jul 24

Study Reveals Ongoing Natural Selection in Modern Humans

A new study uses age-stratified allele frequencies to map ongoing natural selection and rare pathogenic variants.

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Science • Jul 24

Hubble and Webb uncover Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole after 23 years of observations

Instead of searching for X-rays or radio signals from material falling onto a black hole, astronomers measured the tiny motion of a star across the sky for...

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Science • Jul 24

Is This Giant Celestial Body a Moon, a Planet or Something in Between? The Strange Object Calls Astronomical Labels Into Question

A newly discovered celestial object seems to blur the line between planet and moon, leaving some astronomers puzzled over what to call it.

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Science • Jul 24

Injectable biomaterial harnesses the immune system to promote brain repair after stroke

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an injectable biomaterial that helps transform the cavity left behind after a stroke caused by a...

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Science • Jul 24

Quantum Zeno effect could freeze computations as qubit systems scale up

The promise of quantum computing is to solve complex problems faster and more energy-efficiently than today's supercomputers—from optimizing logistics to...

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Science • Jul 24

Shooting Star Season

We have entered the shooting star season. Two meteor showers are ahead and we'll start noting more and more meteors in the night, at any hour.

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Science • Jul 24

See stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has narrowed the search for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The winners will be announced on September 17.

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Science • Jul 24

Why Europa's hidden ocean may be more difficult to reach than scientists thought

Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, has long fascinated scientists because of what may lie beneath its frozen shell: a global ocean of liquid water.

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Science • Jul 24

Not just Starship. SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 in California again

As SpaceX targets its next Starship launch in Texas, it's also planning another mission in California. Here's how to watch the Vandenberg liftoff.

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Science • Jul 24

What lurks beneath the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io? NASA's Juno probe just took a peek

Scientists have measured temperatures beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, offering the first-ever glimpse of the hidden heat driving the most...

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Science • Jul 24

Andean leaf-eared mouse adapts to an unrivalled high life

High up on volcano summits, the Andean leaf-eared mouse is showing how life can thrive in places where humans cannot. This plucky rodent, according to...

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Science • Jul 24

'Much more violent than predicted': A chunk of the universe's missing matter was powerfully hurled out of galaxies

The total amount of ordinary matter in our universe adds up to roughly one-tenth of what's expected. Now, scientists think they may have found some of it...

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