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Science • Jun 09

Deep inside the planet Neptune, the pressure is so extreme that carbon atoms are crushed into actual diamonds — which then rain downward in solid showers through the planet's interior — and recent laboratory experiments have successfully recreated the c

The interiors of the two ice giants of the outer solar system — Uranus, at about 2.9 billion kilometres from the Sun, and Neptune, at about 4.5 billion...

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Science • Jun 09

Don't miss Jupiter and Venus meet in a dazzling conjunction tonight: Here's where and when to look

Don't miss Jupiter and Venus glow just a few degrees away from each other in the sunset sky on June 9, as Mercury lurks close to the horizon in the western...

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Science • Jun 09

ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture...

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Science • Jun 09

The Pando aspen grove in Utah looks like 47,000 separate trees, but every trunk is a genetically identical clone connected by a single underground root system weighing roughly 6,000 tons, making it possibly the heaviest living organism on Earth and at least

Pando is shaking right now in Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah, about 47,000 quaking aspen trunks rattling their flat-stemmed leaves in the...

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Science • Jun 09

For more than half a century, theorists insisted that the Milky Way's central black hole had to be exhaling a wind, but the galactic center stubbornly hid the evidence — until a Northwestern team trained ALMA on Sagittarius A* and found a 45-degree cone of mis

After half a century of waiting, astronomers have caught the Milky Way's central black hole exhaling. A team led by Northwestern astrophysicists Mark D.

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Science • Jun 09

Is your home ready for the ‘highlight of the astronomical year’?

A constellation of designs and architectural additions for stargazing is growing in popularity — just in time for the total solar eclipse.

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Science • Jun 08

What's the buzz? New study says bumblebees are ace problem solvers

Despite its tiny brain, the bumblebee is capable of solving complex problems on a dime, reshaping our view of the humble pollinators.

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Science • Jun 08

Oceans are warming — but one spot is getting colder. It could be a clue to the future

A mysterious cold patch off Greenland points to a weakening ocean current, and the ripples could reach the West Coast.

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Science • Jun 08

Hidden geometry explains why kernel methods separate complex data so well

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously...

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Science • Jun 08

Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of...

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Science • Jun 08

What happens to a star that captures a primordial black hole?

We don't know whether theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the very early universe, when physics was much different.

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Science • Jun 08

Scientists Just Discovered the Brain Chemical That Controls Your Ability to Break a Bad Habit

Being able to alter your not-so-great tendencies goes beyond simply having strong willpower. A new study just revealed the brain chemical associated with...

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Science • Jun 08

Scientists propose spraying chemicals into Earth's magnetic field to protect us from powerful solar storms

Scientists have proposed a spacecraft-based system to actively strengthen Earth's magnetic shield and reduce the impact of powerful solar storms.

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Science • Jun 08

Ancient hominins selected basalt sources for specific tools nearly 800,000 years ago, study reveals

A new study finds that ancient hominins nearly 800000 years ago deliberately selected specific basalt sources for different stages of tool production rather...

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Science • Jun 08

James Webb Space Telescope weighs 'sleeping giant' black hole from 10 billion light-years away — and it's 6 billion times our sun's mass

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, and with a little help from Einstein, astronomers have "weighed" a sleeping giant, a dormant supermassive black hole...

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Science • Jun 08

Dazzling image of the Crystal Ball Nebula shows a dying star in a binary system

Astronomers have used the Gemini North telescope to capture a new image of a planetary nebula nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula.

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Science • Jun 08

New image of the Crystal Ball Nebula captures the ‘spectacular’ throes of a dying star

A new image showcases a dazzling celestial object — a star, paired with another, in the throes of dying that resembles a crystal ball.

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Science • Jun 08

Why do Venus and Jupiter meet up in the sky so often? It's a symptom of a solar system that supports life on Earth

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are critical for life to survive on Earth.

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Science • Jun 08

Your empty cuppa could capture carbon

Polystyrene can be upcycled into carbon sponge material.

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Science • Jun 08

Hubble Could Get a New Lease on Life—If NASA Can Afford It

NASA's Hubble space telescope is running out of time. The aging observatory is slowly being dragged down toward Earth and is estimated to reenter through...

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