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Science • Jun 11

In the Atacama Desert, astronomers live and work in a James Bond villain lair

Daniel Craig's James Bond battled a malign villain here. But Chile's futuristic Residencia is actually home to astronomers.

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Science • Jun 11

China's JUNO Team Releases First Physics Result About Neutrino in Nature

The world's largest transparent spherical neutrino detector located in south China's Guangdong Province released its first findings in the journal Nature...

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Science • Jun 11

Scientists discover a hidden cause of aging cells that can be reversed

Researchers discovered that declining levels of phosphatidylcholine may be a major cause of age-related mitochondrial dysfunction and loss of cellular...

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Science • Jun 11

Physicists Discover How Slime Mold 'Makes Decisions' Without a Brain

Slime molds are slippery, nebulous beings. They're not true molds. They're not even fungi. For most of their lives, they exist as either plasmodia or...

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Science • Jun 11

New imaging system sees through murky waters

Sonar-MASt3R is a new underwater mapping technique developed at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) that may allow vehicles to see...

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Science • Jun 11

NASA boss defends all-male Artemis III mission

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Wednesday defended the selection of an all-male crew for the Artemis III lunar mission. "I have seen reactions ranging...

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Science • Jun 11

Scientists Dug Through Ancient Squirrel Poop And Found a Huge Surprise

A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel feces in Canada's remote Yukon...

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Science • Jun 11

Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear

From Spain to Japan, experiments have repeatedly shown a left-turn bias, but exact mechanic 'is still an open question'

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Science • Jun 10

NASA chief defends selection of all-male Artemis 3 crew

Artemis 3 crew members NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, commander; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot; and NASA astronauts Frank Rubio...

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Science • Jun 10

A Strange 'Cold Blob' in The Atlantic Signals We're Almost at a Tipping Point

There's a strange anomaly in the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland: A 'cold blob' of ocean and air that's cooling down while the rest of the world...

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Science • Jun 10

Cosmic acceleration holds up as new analysis rebuts slowdown claim

Our universe's expansion is still accelerating despite recent claims suggesting otherwise, an international team of astrophysicists says.

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Science • Jun 10

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday

The latest Falcon 9 SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base with 24 Starlink satellites on board lifted off Thursday morning.

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Science • Jun 10

Light-induced quantum friction of carbon nanotubes in water

Friction slows down moving objects at both macroscopic and microscopic scales1. At the electronic level, quantum friction describes direct transfer of...

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Science • Jun 10

Structural basis for chaperone-guided assembly of RNA-induced silencing complex

The RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), comprising an Argonaute (AGO) protein and a small RNA, is the central effector in RNA silencing.

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Science • Jun 10

AI helps reveal large-scale quantum effects hidden in stacked atomic sheets

Quantum materials are a class of exotic materials with special properties that are governed by quantum mechanics rather than classical physics.

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Science • Jun 10

James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence the mysterious 'little red dots' are black hole stars

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may be close to solving the mystery of "little red dots" in the early universe, finding evidence one is a...

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Science • Jun 10

San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1,000 years

Tectonic stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in Southern California has now reached the highest levels seen in the past 1000 years.

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Science • Jun 10

NASA addresses criticism over all-male crew selected for Artemis III test mission

The lack of women sparked “reactions ranging from disappointment to outrage,” Administrator Jared Isaacman said.

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Science • Jun 10

NASA addresses criticism over all-male crew selected for Artemis III test mission

When NASA's Artemis III mission launches next year, the crew won't include any women — a revelation that sparked controversy after the agency on Tuesday...

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Science • Jun 10

Schrödinger’s Cat Gets Stranger: Physicists Demonstrate Quantum States No One Has Seen Before

Physicists at the University of Oxford have engineered a new class of 'cat states' -- quantum superpositions constructed not from ordinary wave packets,...

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