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After a lifetime of waiting, I'll finally witness a total solar eclipse next month on Aug. 12

In less than a month I'm jetting off to Spain to experience the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse with a team of citizen scientists. Here's my story.

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Science • Jul 16

Scientists showed horses silent videos of wolves and found their hearts raced even when they showed no obvious fear, raising new questions for riders and handlers

Science News: Horses have a hidden poker face when they face danger, hiding severe internal stress from their handlers even as their hearts beat at...

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Science • Jul 16

A new record holder for the world's oldest amber discovered in China

Paleontologists in China have discovered the oldest chemically verified amber ever found, dating to 385 million years ago. That's approximately 140 million...

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Science • Jul 16

Webb telescope discovers hidden planet in famous star system

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the...

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Science • Jul 16

Meteorite that crashed into New Jersey home contains "alien world chemistry," scientists say

A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home held prebiotic molecules and other "building blocks of life," astronomers said in a newly published paper.

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Science • Jul 16

Chemists shrink gallium nitride, the material behind LED lighting, into nanocrystals

Nanocrystals are so useful that they formed the basis of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But despite their usefulness, scientists have so far been able...

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Science • Jul 16

Listening to 'ringing' black holes unlocks future gravitational-wave astronomy

Listening to the "ringing" produced by black holes after they collide and merge could allow scientists to test Einstein's theory of general relativity under...

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Science • Jul 16

U.S. approval of a controversial satellite has scientists asking: Who’s really in charge of space?

A controversial new ruling from the Federal Communications Commission leaves no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other ill effects from...

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Science • Jul 16

Perseverance Rover Captures a Sweeping View of Mars From Broom Point

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a wide view of Broom Point, offering a closer look at the ancient landscape of Jezero crater.

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Science • Jul 16

A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy

"The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about---more so than if the text were generated by an...

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Science • Jul 16

A new 'library' for Feynman integrals

Theoretical physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a new method of ordering Feynman integrals. This critical step in making...

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Science • Jul 16

Would You Like Sugar With Your Stars? Sugar Detected in Interstellar Space for the First Time

It's the first time a sugar has been identified in interstellar media, having previously been found in our solar system on asteroids.

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Science • Jul 16

Single-reactor process yields 90% pure hydrogen fuel from mixed plastic waste

A process called Alkaline Thermal Treatment (ATT) has been tested to turn mixed plastic waste into high-purity hydrogen fuel.

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Science • Jul 16

Quantum teleportation could reduce photon loss in long-distance communications

Quantum technologies, which leverage the principles of quantum mechanics, have been found to outperform their classical counterparts on specific tasks.

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$Four first-time astronauts with only four hours of training took the first diagnostic X-rays ever captured on human beings in orbit, and radiologists on the ground judged the images clinically usable enough to catch a fracture a quarter-million miles from the neare$

Science • Jul 16

Four first-time astronauts with only four hours of training took the first diagnostic X-rays ever captured on human beings in orbit, and radiologists on the ground judged the images clinically usable enough to catch a fracture a quarter-million miles from the neare

The first X-ray ever taken of a human body, in 1895, was of Wilhelm Röntgen's wife's hand, wedding ring and all. One hundred and thirty years later, four.

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Science • Jul 16

Is dark matter 'tuned in' to a hidden dimension?

Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could be linked, new research suggests.

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Science • Jul 16

11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto

New Horizons may have come and gone, but the mission is still revealing previously unseen features on Pluto.

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Science • Jul 16

NASA spacecraft wakes up to continue groundbreaking mission beyond Pluto

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently came out of hibernation to continue its journey through an unexplored part of the solar system.

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Science • Jul 16

Saturn's moon Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth — clouds, rain, rivers and seas — except the liquid doing all the work is methane, and the bedrock underfoot is water frozen at nearly minus 180 degrees, harder than most stone on Earth

Saturn's largest moon runs a full hydrological cycle — clouds, storms, rivers, lakes, seas — but the rain is liquid methane and the bedrock is water ice...

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