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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
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We Now Have More Evidence a Rushing River Existed on Mars Billions of Years Ago
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We Now Have More Evidence a Rushing River Existed on Mars Billions of Years Ago
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We Now Have More Evidence a Rushing River Existed on Mars Billions of Years Ago
An international team of scientists has found new evidence of rivers that flowed on the surface of Mars billions of years ago — a discovery that could give us new insights into the search for ancient life on the Red Planet.
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Scientists Find The First Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
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Scientists Find The First Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
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Scientists Find The First Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live. Except we might need to rethink that last one.
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An Ancient Meteorite Is The First Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Convection on Mars
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An Ancient Meteorite Is The First Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Convection on Mars
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An Ancient Meteorite Is The First Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Convection on Mars
For many years, we thought Mars was dead. A dusty, dry, barren planet, where nothing moves but the howling wind. Recently, however, pieces of evidence have started to emerge, hinting that Mars is both volcanically and geologically active.
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Violent Impacts in The Moon's Ancient Past May Have Melted Vast Tracts of Its Surface
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Violent Impacts in The Moon's Ancient Past May Have Melted Vast Tracts of Its Surface
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Violent Impacts in The Moon's Ancient Past May Have Melted Vast Tracts of Its Surface
What ancient secrets does the pock-marked, crater-covered surface of the Moon hide? A new study suggests giant meteorite smashes played a major role in the process of the Moon's crust formation some 4 billion years ago.
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Our Behaviour in This Pandemic Has Seriously Confused AI Machine Learning Systems
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Our Behaviour in This Pandemic Has Seriously Confused AI Machine Learning Systems
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Our Behaviour in This Pandemic Has Seriously Confused AI Machine Learning Systems
The chaos and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have claimed an unlikely victim: the machine learning systems that are programmed to make sense of our online behavior.
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Neuroscientists Think They've Found a Previously Unknown Form of Neural Communication
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Neuroscientists Think They've Found a Previously Unknown Form of Neural Communication
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Neuroscientists Think They've Found a Previously Unknown Form of Neural Communication
Scientists think they've identified a previously unknown form of neural communication that self-propagates across brain tissue, and can leap wirelessly from neurons in one section of brain tissue to another – even if they've been surgically sever
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Make Your Day Better With These 8 Cool Space Things That Have Totally Ridiculous Names
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Make Your Day Better With These 8 Cool Space Things That Have Totally Ridiculous Names
To call the Universe vast would be an understatement. It is, as far as we know, without boundary - so big that we don't even know if it's finite or not. Either way, the space we can observe is teeming with fascinating objects, interactions, st
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First Vaccine Battlegrounds 'Map' on Social Media Show How Dire Things Have Become
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First Vaccine Battlegrounds 'Map' on Social Media Show How Dire Things Have Become
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First 'Map' of Vaccine Battlegrounds on Social Media Shows How Dire Things Have Become
War metaphors are a common cliché in medicine. But sometimes nothing else will do. A battle is looming, one with real lives at risk, and if a new map of the battlefield is anything to go by, losses will be anything but small.
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Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Thought to Be Blank Turn Out to Have Hidden Text Inscribed
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Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Thought to Be Blank Turn Out to Have Hidden Text Inscribed
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Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Thought to Be Blank Turn Out to Have Hidden Text Inscribed
Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls long believed to be entirely blank have now been shown to contain hidden text that hasn't been read for several decades, if not much, much longer.