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Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding

Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.

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Science • Jul 15

A Missing Black Hole Was Found Hiding in a Giant Star Cluster. Astronomers Think There Could Be Thousands More

Omega Centauri may contain 10000 tiny black holes, but none of them have been spotted until now.

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Science • Jul 15

Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a sweet discovery that could reveal clues about life's origins

Is space … sweet? As it turns out, interstellar space has sugar — and it's the same type of sugar that's found in raspberries (and self-tanners,...

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Science • Jul 15

The Dinosaur Extinction Was More Complicated Than You Think

The dinosaur-ending asteroid may have been especially devastating due to its angle.

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Science • Jul 15

NASA identifies striped rocks on Mars with the Curiosity rover, which advanced through transition terrain in Gale Crater and used laser, high-resolution images, and chemical analyses to reconstruct billions of years of climate changes on the Red Planet and se

NASA recorded striped rocks on Mars after the Curiosity rover advanced through a geological transition zone in Gale Crater. During observations conducted in...

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Science • Jul 15

Scientists recover sub-Saharan Africa's oldest ancient animal DNA

Ancient DNA can be a powerful tool for helping us reconstruct the long-dead past. Most surviving genetic material comes from the bones and teeth of animals...

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Science • Jul 15

First Human X-Rays Captured In Space Mark Major Breakthrough For Astronaut Health

Following their return, three independent radiologists evaluated the in-flight images against identical scans taken before and after the mission.

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Science • Jul 15

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy

A long-standing debate in neuroscience concerns whether individual neurons are organized into functionally distinct populations that encode information...

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Science • Jul 15

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient Mars Impacts

Old rocks exposed on the rim of Jezero Crater preserve a roughly 4-billion-year-old cosmic “weather report” from the solar system's most dynamic era.

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Science • Jul 15

Quantum statistical plasmonic metacrystals

Engineering materials that control quantum many-body dynamics remains challenging, as multiparticle interactions typically produce complex emergent...

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Science • Jul 15

People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games

Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence, often focusing on expert-level or even...

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Science • Jul 15

Universal gates from braiding and fusing anyons on quantum hardware

A quantum computer requires the ability to store and manipulate information globally to protect against local noise. Topologically ordered phases1,2 offer...

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Science • Jul 15

Ammonia pressure controls colloidal metal nitride synthesis in molten salts

Metal nitrides represent a large class of materials with extensive applications in optoelectronics, energy and healthcare technologies.

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Science • Jul 15

Carl Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard in the late 1960s, reportedly for being too public a scientist; Cornell hired him and named him David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences

Around 1967, Harvard turned down a young astronomer for tenure. His name was Carl Sagan. He had joined the faculty in 1962, and he was already becoming a.

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Science • Jul 15

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient Mars Impacts

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has uncovered evidence that a 245-foot-thick (75-meter-thick) stack of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was built by.

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Science • Jul 15

Hayabusa2’s Next Target Is A Tiny 11 Meter Asteroid

Launched in 2014, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft completed its primary asteroid sample return mission all the way back in 2020. But with the main spacecraft...

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Science • Jul 15

Quantum currents turn a nano 'soccer ball' into a powerful molecular electromagnet

Driving an electric current through a molecule can create a magnetic field. Yet in practice, such fields are often too weak to be detected experimentally.

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Science • Jul 15

Asteroid with unexplained orbital shift turns out to be a 'dark comet'

Typically, astronomers identify comets by their distinct atmospheres, or comae, and their tails, which are created as the sun vaporizes a comet's ice.

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