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
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 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.
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New Study Could Explain How 'Oumuamua Got Its Bizarre Shape
Interstellar object 'Oumuamua's past may have been more violent than we know. New simulations reveal the peculiar chunk of space rock could have been torn apart by a star - reforming into the cigar-shape we know and love today - before being flung
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A Star Orbiting a Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
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A Star Orbiting a Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
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A Star Orbiting a Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
A single star called S2 looping around the supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy just demonstrated a prediction of general relativity in the most extreme environment we can test it in - putting yet another feather in the theory's alre
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It's Official: SpaceX Will Carry Its First Humans to The Space Station Next Month
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It's Official: SpaceX Will Carry Its First Humans to The Space Station Next Month
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It's Official: SpaceX Will Carry Its First Humans to The Space Station Next Month
A SpaceX rocket will send two American astronauts to the International Space Station on May 27, NASA announced on Friday, the first crewed spaceflight from the US in nearly a decade.
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Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
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Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
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Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
Scientists have found a new way to structure carbon at the nanoscale, making a material that's superior to diamond on the strength-to-density ratio.
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Astronomers Find a Beautiful Six-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
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Astronomers Find a Beautiful Six-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
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Astronomers Find a Beautiful Six-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
By now, we have discovered hundreds of stars with multiple planets orbiting them scattered throughout the galaxy. Each one is unique, but a system orbiting the star HD 158259, 88 light-years away, is truly special.
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Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
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Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
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Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
Just over a year ago, on 12 April 2019, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration made a detection of gravitational waves, rippling out across space-time from the epic collision of two black holes from 2.4 billion light-years away. By now, marvellously, this is
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Here's How NASA Staff Are Operating The Mars Curiosity Rover From Home
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Here's How NASA Staff Are Operating The Mars Curiosity Rover From Home
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Here's How NASA Staff Are Operating The Mars Curiosity Rover From Home
In the midst of the current coronavirus pandemic, many of us find ourselves adjusting to working from home, with all the distractions of kids, pets, unfinished DIY projects and Netflix specials to contend with.
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Spacecraft Snaps Haunting Images of Our Little Blue Planet on Its Way to Mercury
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Spacecraft Snaps Haunting Images of Our Little Blue Planet on Its Way to Mercury
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Spacecraft Snaps Haunting Images of Our Little Blue Planet on Its Way to Mercury
Farewell! Even though the BepiColombo mission launched for Mercury in 2018, it's still hanging around the Earth – at least, briefly, as shown in this stunning image recently released by the European Space Agency.
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Solar Winds Hitting Earth Are Hotter Than They Should Be, And We May Finally Know Why
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Solar Winds Hitting Earth Are Hotter Than They Should Be, And We May Finally Know Why
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Solar Winds Hitting Earth Are Hotter Than They Should Be, And We May Finally Know Why
Our planet is constantly bathed in the winds coming off the blistering sphere at the centre of our Solar System. But even though the Sun itself is so ridiculously hot, once the solar winds reach Earth, they are hotter than they should be - and we m
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Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle
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Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle
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Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle
The glowing greenhouse of our dreams is still so very far away, but it just got a tantalising nudge closer.
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Stunning Hubble Images Detect a Comet Shattered in The Inner Solar System
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Stunning Hubble Images Detect a Comet Shattered in The Inner Solar System
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Stunning Hubble Images Detect a Comet Shattered in The Inner Solar System
A comet only just discovered in December of last year has already met its demise. It didn't reach perihelion, or its closest approach to the Sun. It didn't even pass inside Earth orbit. Yet Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) has now absolutely shattered.
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Astronomers Predict Astonishing Flare From Two Swirling Supermassive Black Holes
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Astronomers Predict Astonishing Flare From Two Swirling Supermassive Black Holes
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Astronomers Predict Astonishing Flare From Two Swirling Supermassive Black Holes
In the depths of space 3.5 billion light-years away, two supermassive black holes are locked in one of the most extreme orbital dances in the Universe. Their riotous, somewhat erratically flaring death spiral has been documented for decades.
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Exclusive: We Might Have First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy
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Exclusive: We Might Have First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy
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Exclusive: We Might Have First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy
A Milky Way magnetar called SGR 1935+2154 may have just massively contributed to solving the mystery of powerful deep-space radio signals that have vexed astronomers for years.
In the early morning of 30 June 1908, something exploded over Siberia. The event shattered the normal stillness of the sparsely populated taiga, so powerful that it flattened an area of forest 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles) in size - felling an estimated 80 million trees.
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New Paper Has a Wild Explanation For The Most Explosive 'Meteor Impact' on Record
In the early morning of 30 June 1908, something exploded over Siberia. The event shattered the normal stillness of the sparsely populated taiga, so powerful that it flattened an area of forest 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles) in size - fe
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Here's The Real Truth About Those Viral Photos of 'Sand After a Lightning Strike'
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Here's The Real Truth About Those Viral Photos of 'Sand After a Lightning Strike'
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Here's The Real Truth About Those Viral Photos of 'Sand After a Lightning Strike'
Most people know that lightning strikes can destroy - but it turns out, they can also create.
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Astronomers Have Found a Black Hole Lurking Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth
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Astronomers Have Found a Black Hole Lurking Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth
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Astronomers Have Found a Black Hole Lurking Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth
We can't see them, but they're out there - stellar-mass black holes, peppering the galaxy. And they're closing in. Astronomers have just identified the closest black hole to Earth they've spotted yet, at less than a third of the distance of the pre