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Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
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Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
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Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
In April, an international team of scientists captured the first-ever photo of a black hole. In September, they won a US$3 million Breakthrough Prize for that accomplishment. But they're far from finished.
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In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
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In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
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In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
You might be familiar with the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, where the eponymous feline in a box can be both alive or dead at the same time, often used to illustrate the multi-state paradox of quantum mechanics.
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Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
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Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
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Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
Scientists have been able to teach birds simple songs they've never heard before by selectively activating specific neurons in their brains - effectively implanting false memories.
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We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
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We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
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We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
When China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft landed on the lunar far side on 3 January 2019, it made history. It was the first spacecraft to visit that part of the Moon, and among its payload was a 2.6 kg (5.7 lb) mini-biosphere called the Lunar Micro Ecosyst
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We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
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We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
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We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
From its red and rugged surface, Mars looks like a lifeless planet, both dry and desolate. But that hasn't always been the case.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to three physician-scientists from the United States and Britain - William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza - "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Discovery of Extrasolar Planets
This morning the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.” James Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, won half the prize for his contributions to physical cosmology, while Michel Mayor, a physicist at the University of Geneva, and Didier Queloz, an astronomer at Geneva and at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, shared the other half for the 1995 discovery of an exoplanet orbiting an sunlike star.
When Peebles began his career at Princeton in the early 1960s, there was little evidence for the Big Bang theory, the idea that the expanding universe could be extrapolated back in time to a small, hot, dense state. Read here.
The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a planet around a distant star. The cosmologist James Peebles shared the other half of the prize.This morning the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.” James Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, won half the prize for his contributions to physical cosmology, while Michel Mayor, a physicist at the University of Geneva, and Didier Queloz, an astronomer at Geneva and at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, shared the other half for the 1995 discovery of an exoplanet orbiting an sunlike star.
When Peebles began his career at Princeton in the early 1960s, there was little evidence for the Big Bang theory, the idea that the expanding universe could be extrapolated back in time to a small, hot, dense state. Read here.
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Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
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Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
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Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
Space food is notoriously lacklustre, but new technology is slowly revolutionising the way astronauts eat.
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A Diamond With a Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia
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A Diamond With a Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia
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A Diamond With a Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia
Humans have been mining diamonds for a long time, but a new stone hauled from the belly of the Earth could very well be a first. The diamond itself is hollow - and inside is another diamond, freely moving around.
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Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
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Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
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Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
NASA astronomers have used data from the Voyager probes to measure the bustle of particles rippling at the very edge of our Solar System, and discovered the pressure in the distant borderlands of our star is higher than they expected.
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Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice
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Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice
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Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice
We're not wired to feel safe all the time, but maybe one day we could be.
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Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn - Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
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Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn - Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
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Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn - Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
With the discovery of 20 more moons orbiting Saturn, the ringed planet has overtaken Jupiter as host to the most moons in the Solar system. Saturn now has 82 known moons, whereas Jupiter has a paltry 79.
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We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
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We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
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We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
Orbiting is par for the course in our universe. The Earth orbits the Sun, the Moon orbits the Earth, and more than 50 galaxies orbit the Milky Way, the biggest of those being the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Former NASA Scientist Is 'Convinced' We've Already Found Evidence of Life on Mars
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Former NASA Scientist Is 'Convinced' We've Already Found Evidence of Life on Mars
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Ancient 'Lost City' of Khmer Empire Rediscovered Hidden Under The Cambodian Jungle
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Ancient 'Lost City' of Khmer Empire Rediscovered Hidden Under The Cambodian Jungle
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World's Fastest Ant Has Just Been Clocked at a Breathtaking 855 Millimetres Per Second
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World's Fastest Ant Has Just Been Clocked at a Breathtaking 855 Millimetres Per Second
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World's Fastest Ant Has Just Been Clocked at a Breathtaking 855 Millimetres Per Second
When you think of fast animals, it's probably something like cheetahs, or greyhounds. But when measuring in body lengths per second, the arthropod world is unmatched. And now we have a new record-holder - the fastest speed ever measured in an ant.
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'Excessive' Brain Activity Has Been Linked to a Shorter Life
One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain without too much neural activity, according to a new study that examined postmortem brain tissue from extremely long-lived people for clues about what made them different from people who died in the
Well... This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star, so this🔭 is the right variant :)
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This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star
In November 1572, a star exploded. It brightened in the night sky, until it was visible to the naked eye - a jaw-dropping phenomenon observed and documented by astronomers around the world, none more extensively than Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe,