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NASA Completes Next-Gen Telescope, And It Could Soon Reveal Whether We're Alone - ScienceAlert
🔬 science ScienceAlert 6 months ago

NASA Completes Next-Gen Telescope, And It Could Soon Reveal Whether We're Alone - ScienceAlert

If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day to you.

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Fossilized Bee Nests Inside Skeletons Are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before - Gizmodo
🔬 science Gizmodo.com 6 months ago

Fossilized Bee Nests Inside Skeletons Are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before - Gizmodo

In a first, burrowing bees have been discovered nesting inside the fossil remains of other mammals.

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Earth is sprinkling the Moon with water and other life ingredients - Earth.com
🔬 science Earth.com 6 months ago

Earth is sprinkling the Moon with water and other life ingredients - Earth.com

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric history.

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Armagh: Rare footage of lunar impact flash captured by observatory - BBC
🔬 science BBC News 6 months ago

Armagh: Rare footage of lunar impact flash captured by observatory - BBC

The lunar impact flash - an explosion of light caused by something hitting the Moon's surface - was captured on Friday.

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New ‘CRASH Clock’ Warns of 2.8-Day Window Before Likely Orbital Collision - Gizmodo
🔬 science Gizmodo.com 6 months ago

New ‘CRASH Clock’ Warns of 2.8-Day Window Before Likely Orbital Collision - Gizmodo

The CRASH Clock is a new metric for measuring the risks of satellite congestion in low-Earth orbit. Its calculations are disturbing.

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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too - Space
🔬 science Space.com 6 months ago

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too - Space

MAVEN's handlers haven't heard from the probe since Dec. 4.

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Unpublished images show that the Moon 'broke apart' billions of years ago - Earth.com
🔬 science Earth.com 6 months ago

Unpublished images show that the Moon 'broke apart' billions of years ago - Earth.com

NASA has just revealed enormous cracks, or grabens, on the Moon that show how the Mare Humorum fractured billions of years ago.

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Scientists still can't explain the star that exploded repeatedly - Boing Boing
🔬 science Boing Boing 6 months ago

Scientists still can't explain the star that exploded repeatedly - Boing Boing

iPTF14hls exploded for over 1,000 days, fluctuating in brightness five times. It had already exploded in 1954.

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Huge underground tunnels found in South America were not made by humans; footprints point to an animal - Times of India
🔬 science The Times of India 6 months ago

Huge underground tunnels found in South America were not made by humans; footprints point to an animal - Times of India

US News: Massive underground tunnels discovered across South America are not human-made. Scientists now believe extinct giant ground sloths dug these extensive

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NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation - NASA Science (.gov)
🔬 science NASA 6 months ago

NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation - NASA Science (.gov)

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition

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Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Experiencing A Non-Gravitational Acceleration – What Does That Mean? - IFLScience
🔬 science IFLScience 6 months ago

Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Experiencing A Non-Gravitational Acceleration – What Does That Mean? - IFLScience

Thanks to it, scientists have been able to estimate the comet's mass more precisely.

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'Little Foot' May Be a Whole New Member of Our Family Tree After All - ScienceAlert
🔬 science ScienceAlert 6 months ago

'Little Foot' May Be a Whole New Member of Our Family Tree After All - ScienceAlert

One of the most famous hominin fossils may not be as familiar as we thought.

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These Fitness Benchmarks Show Whether You’re Still Strong After 40 - Men's Health
🔬 science menshealth.com 6 months ago

These Fitness Benchmarks Show Whether You’re Still Strong After 40 - Men's Health

Strength, endurance, power and balance all decline with age – but you can measure where you stand. A coach breaks down the key fitness benchmarks men over 40 should aim for, and how to adjust expectations decade by decade.

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Record-breaking feat means information lasts 15 times longer in new kind of quantum processor than those used by Google and IBM - Live Science
🔬 science Live Science 6 months ago

Record-breaking feat means information lasts 15 times longer in new kind of quantum processor than those used by Google and IBM - Live Science

The novel design for the new qubit uses the chemical element tantalum in tandem with a special silicon substrate, creating what researchers say are the most coherent superconducting qubits to date.

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This “Mushroom” Isn’t a Fungus at All – It’s One of the Strangest Plants on Earth - SciTechDaily
🔬 science SciTechDaily 6 months ago

This “Mushroom” Isn’t a Fungus at All – It’s One of the Strangest Plants on Earth - SciTechDaily

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s strangest experiments. At the foot of moss-covered trees in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan, as well as within the subtropi…

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Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Just About to Make Its Closest Approach to Earth - ScienceAlert
🔬 science ScienceAlert 6 months ago

Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Just About to Make Its Closest Approach to Earth - ScienceAlert

On 19 December 2025, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will at long last make its closest approach to Earth.

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James Webb Space Telescope could illuminate dark matter in a way scientists didn't realize - Space
🔬 science Space.com 6 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope could illuminate dark matter in a way scientists didn't realize - Space

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

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As 2025 ends, the Standard Model still hasn’t cracked - Big Think
🔬 science Big Think 6 months ago

As 2025 ends, the Standard Model still hasn’t cracked - Big Think

Our Standard Model of the Universe, for both particle physics and cosmology, remains intact for now. When will its foundations crack?

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Why does Bermuda appear to float? Scientists' discovery may be the answer - ABC News
🔬 science ABC News 6 months ago

Why does Bermuda appear to float? Scientists' discovery may be the answer - ABC News

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Uranus And Neptune May Not Be 'Ice Giants' After All, Study Suggests - ScienceAlert
🔬 science ScienceAlert 6 months ago

Uranus And Neptune May Not Be 'Ice Giants' After All, Study Suggests - ScienceAlert

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

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