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The Atmosphere of Uranus Is Literally Leaking Gas Into Space
Poor old Uranus just can't seem to catch a break. Something already tipped the planet on its side, so its orbit is perpendicular to those of the other Solar System planets. It probably smells terrible. And now scientists have discovered that the at
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New Study of The Coronavirus 'Spike' Protein Could Help Explain Its Immense Spread
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New Study of The Coronavirus 'Spike' Protein Could Help Explain Its Immense Spread
When a new disease comes out of the woodwork, scientists across the world leap into action to try and find out what they can about it, hopefully providing new ways to help.
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New AI-Powered Blood Test Promises Easy Screening For Over 50 Types of Cancer
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New AI-Powered Blood Test Promises Easy Screening For Over 50 Types of Cancer
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New AI-Powered Blood Test Promises Easy Screening For Over 50 Types of Cancer
A new AI-powered blood test just proved capable of detecting 50 different types of cancers, including some that are particularly aggressive or elusive.
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73% of Americans Hospitalised With COVID-19 Had an Underlying Condition, Says CDC
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73% of Americans Hospitalised With COVID-19 Had an Underlying Condition, Says CDC
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73% of Americans Hospitalised With COVID-19 Had an Underlying Condition, Says CDC
Among US patients hospitalized with COVID-19, 73 percent had at least one underlying condition, according to a new report from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In... Antarctica
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Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In... Antarctica
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Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In... Antarctica
Since time immemorial, Earth's poles have resembled frozen wastelands. Life can and does exist there, but there are sound reasons why humans and most other animals cling to the safety of more hospitable climates closer to the equator.
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Scientists Took Mentos And Coke to The Top of a Mountain, For Science
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Scientists Took Mentos And Coke to The Top of a Mountain, For Science
Adding pellets of Mentos mint candy to carbonated beverages has been a science fair staple for years. While most ten-year-olds can tell you why it spews up a geyser of foam, certain microscopic features of the reaction haven't been so easy to figur
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Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Bacteria Has a Metabolism Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
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Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Bacteria Has a Metabolism Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
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Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Bacteria Have a Metabolism Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
A curious kind of bacteria found on the floor of the deep ocean might have a metabolism unlike anything we've seen before.
To Make the Perfect Mirror, Physicists Confront the Mystery of Glass
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory can sense movements thousands of times tinier than the width of an atom partly because of the instrument’s near-perfect mirrors. The mirrors bounce laser beams back and forth down the arms of LIGO’s L-shaped detectors. Changes in the relative lengths of the arms reveal when a gravitational wave flutters past Earth, stretching and squeezing space-time.
They’re nothing like regular mirrors. In your bathroom mirror, light reflects off metal, which has glass in front of it merely for protection. But LIGO’s 100-kilowatt laser would fry any metal. Instead, its mirrors are made entirely of glass.
Sometimes a mirror that reflects 99.9999% of light isn’t good enough...The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory can sense movements thousands of times tinier than the width of an atom partly because of the instrument’s near-perfect mirrors. The mirrors bounce laser beams back and forth down the arms of LIGO’s L-shaped detectors. Changes in the relative lengths of the arms reveal when a gravitational wave flutters past Earth, stretching and squeezing space-time.
They’re nothing like regular mirrors. In your bathroom mirror, light reflects off metal, which has glass in front of it merely for protection. But LIGO’s 100-kilowatt laser would fry any metal. Instead, its mirrors are made entirely of glass.
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Researchers Map How Ancient Human Migrations Changed Europe's Landscape Forever
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Researchers Map How Ancient Human Migrations Changed Europe's Landscape Forever
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Researchers Map How Ancient Human Migrations Changed Europe's Landscape Forever
In the wake of the last great ice age, humans flooded across Europe in slow, creeping tides.
The Brightest Supermoon of 2020 Will Rise on Wednesday
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Need a Distraction? The Brightest Supermoon of 2020 Will Rise on Wednesday
We could all use a distraction or two right now, and what better way to take your mind off what's happening on this planet than by gazing at another celestial body? This Wednesday 8 April you'll be able to see a 'super pink Moon' in the night sky.
Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In.
Puzzlingly, the laws of nature appear to be composed in triplicate, with three copies of all matter particles, each heavier than the last but otherwise identical.
Puzzlingly, the laws of nature appear to be composed in triplicate, with three copies of all matter particles, each heavier than the last but otherwise identical.
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Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In
Three progressively heavier copies of each type of matter particle exist, and no one knows why. A new paper by Steven Weinberg takes a stab at explaining the pattern.
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What The Heck Is This Long, Hypnotic Stringy Thing Floating in The Ocean?
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What The Heck Is This Long, Hypnotic Stringy Thing Floating in The Ocean?
New footage has revealed a trailing ribbon of conjoined tentacled clones sweeping the ocean off the coast of Australia. Known in some regions as the "long stringy stingy thingy", siphonophores blur the line between organ and organism. They somehow
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Miguel Ramos holds up a piece of fossilized amber. After settling for 110 million years, the amber was thought to approach the state of ideal glass, where molecules are packed together in the densest possible random arrangement
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Ideal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at All
Glass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal, yet made of disordered molecules like a liquid. To understand why it exists, researchers are attempting to create the perfect, still-hypothetical “ideal…
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What Did Hubble Capture on Your Birthday? New NASA Tool Lets You Find Out
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What Did Hubble Capture on Your Birthday? New NASA Tool Lets You Find Out
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What Did Hubble Capture on Your Birthday? New NASA Tool Lets You Find Out
Since the Hubble telescope was first launched in 1990, it has made more than 1.4 million observations of various stars, planets and galaxies littering our Universe.
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In Good News, Scientists Built a Device That Generates Electricity 'Out of Thin Air'
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In Good News, Scientists Built a Device That Generates Electricity 'Out of Thin Air'
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In Good News, Scientists Built a Device That Generates Electricity 'Out of Thin Air'
They found it buried in the muddy shores of the Potomac River more than three decades ago: a strange "sediment organism" that could do things nobody had ever seen before in bacteria.
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Epic Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Plasma Threads Woven Through Sun's Atmosphere
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Epic Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Plasma Threads Woven Through Sun's Atmosphere
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Epic Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Plasma Threads Woven Through Sun's Atmosphere
Astronomers have delivered the closest look yet at the extremely hot outer corona layer of the Sun, revealing never-before-seen structures hidden within regions once only seen as empty or dark.
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Lose Yourself in a Breathtaking New NASA Image of The 'Pillars of Creation'
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Lose Yourself in a Breathtaking NASA Image of The 'Pillars of Creation'
NASA and ESA's incredible view of the 'Pillars of Creation', courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope, has become one of the most iconic views of our cosmos since it was first captured in 1995.