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Science • Jul 14

NASA's Roman Space Telescope set to unlock the universe's biggest mysteries

NASA is gearing up to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this summer, sending the spacecraft 1 million miles from Earth to unlock the mysteries of...

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Science • Jul 14

New Crested Dinosaur Species Identified in Canada

A new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified in southern Alberta, Canada, dating back 77 million years to the Campanian...

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Science • Jul 14

Ocean acidification emerging as a planetary signal linking today's carbon emissions to Earth's deep-time memory

When most people hear the phrase "ocean acidification," they think of coral reefs, shellfish or declining fisheries. Those concerns are real.

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Science • Jul 14

SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th time, sending Starlink satellites to orbit (video)

SpaceX reached a milestone with its latest Starlink launch, sending the satellites into orbit on its 600th flight of a flight-proven booster.

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Science • Jul 14

FCC approves startup’s space mirror to reflect sunlight to dark parts of Earth

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a startup business's request to build and launch a mirror satellite that would reflect sunlight back...

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Science • Jul 14

Dogs do not see the world in black and white: they see much as a red-green colourblind person does, in blues and yellows — reds and greens simply fade to murky browns and grey, but colour is very much there

Dogs do not see only in black and white. That is one of the most stubborn myths in popular biology, and it is wrong. Dogs see colour.

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Science • Jul 14

Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa — much longer than previously thought

Researchers have extracted DNA from a 50,000-year-old tooth belonging to an African antelope, setting a record for the oldest DNA ever retrieved from...

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Science • Jul 14

Scientists spot 4 superdense stellar corpses hiding behind their red dwarf companions

Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directly.

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Science • Jul 14

Physicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved.

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

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Science • Jul 14

NASA discovers missing black hole in Omega Centauri star cluster

Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope finally located the first missing black hole in the massive globular star cluster...

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Science • Jul 14

A park ranger lowered himself into an Australian canyon expecting to document an ordinary patch of rainforest and found a stand of trees that had been missing from the living world for millions of years

In September 1994, David Noble used ropes to enter a remote sandstone gorge in Wollemi National Park, northwest of Sydney. Noble, an off-duty officer with...

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Science • Jul 14

The Amygdala Predicts Teen Isolation Years in Advance

A new study proves adolescent amygdala activity predicts future social health in a sex-divergent manner.

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Science • Jul 14

A new smart coating could improve the cleanup of nuclear wastewater

Scientists in China have developed a smart coating that could make it easier to remove tritium (a radioactive form of hydrogen) from nuclear power plant...

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Science • Jul 14

New Winged Robot Can Fly and Swim Like a Puffin

Inspired by the physical feats of diving birds, researchers have created a robot that can plunge into the water and flap back into the air.

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Science • Jul 14

MRV-MEP Mission

SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, July 21 for launch of the Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40...

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Science • Jul 14

The 1st of 10,000 'missing' black holes in the Omega Centauri star cluster has been found

Now that the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri has been discovered, astronomers suspect that this will open the floodgates for many more.

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Science • Jul 14

Portable system captures 1st diagnostic-quality X-rays during spaceflight

A new paper published in RSNA's flagship journal details how experts were able to successfully capture radiographs using an off-the-shelf portable...

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Science • Jul 14

NASA’s Hubble reveals a black hole hiding inside a massive star cluster in the Milky Way

Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they had been unable to spot any.

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Science • Jul 14

NASA’s Hubble reveals a black hole hiding inside a massive star cluster in the Milky Way

Scientists have detected a small black hole hiding inside one of the Milky Way's massive star clusters, Omega Centauri. Researchers believed the cluster to...

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Science • Jul 14

NASA discovers missing black hole in Omega Centauri star cluster

(NewsNation) — Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have located the first missing black hole in the massive globular star...

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