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There's A Place On Earth Getting Cooler, Not Hotter. A New Study Sheds Light On Why
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There's A Place On Earth Getting Cooler, Not Hotter. A New Study Sheds Light On Why
Earth's oceans are simmering with the heat trapped by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. But one patch of water in the North Atlantic is stubbornly resisting the trend, and actually dropping in temperature.
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Lynds Dark Nebula 1251
Image Credit & Copyright: Ara Jerahian
Explanation: Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward the Cepheus flare region. Across the spectrum, astronomical explorations of the obscuring interstellar clouds reveal energetic shocks and outflows associated with newborn stars, including the telltale reddish glow from scattered Herbig-Haro objects seen in this sharp image. Distant background galaxies also lurk on the scene, buried behind the dusty expanse. This alluring view imaged with a backyard telescope and broadband filters spans about two full moons on the sky, or 17 light-years at the estimated distance of LDN 1251.
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Explanation: Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward the Cepheus flare region. Across the spectrum, astronomical explorations of the obscuring interstellar clouds reveal energetic shocks and outflows associated with newborn stars, including the telltale reddish glow from scattered Herbig-Haro objects seen in this sharp image. Distant background galaxies also lurk on the scene, buried behind the dusty expanse. This alluring view imaged with a backyard telescope and broadband filters spans about two full moons on the sky, or 17 light-years at the estimated distance of LDN 1251.
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Gorgeous New Footage Lets You Fly Over a Vast, Ice-Filled Crater on Mars
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Gorgeous New Footage Lets You Fly Over a Vast, Ice-Filled Crater on Mars
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Gorgeous New Footage Lets You Fly Over a Vast, Ice-Filled Crater on Mars
We love flyover videos from other worlds. These stunning videos, created from imagery gathered by orbiting spacecraft, can give us a sense of what it would be like to fly in an airplane on another planet.
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Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
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Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
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Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
If you studied algebra in high school (or you're learning it right now), there's a good chance you're familiar with the quadratic formula. If not, it's possible you repressed it.
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There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees
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There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees
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There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees
It's no surprise that scientists have struggled to find an artificial substitute for natural knee cartilage: it's an amazing biological substance that combines the properties of a soft cushion and a tough barrier to keep our busy leg joints from ha
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Saturn's Northern Hexagon
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team
Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole. The composite of near-infrared image data results in red hues for low clouds and green for high ones, giving the Saturnian cloudscape a vivid appearance. This and similar images show the stability of the hexagon even 20+ years after Voyager. Movies of Saturn's North Pole show the cloud structure maintaining its hexagonal structure while rotating. Unlike individual clouds appearing like a hexagon on Earth, the Saturn cloud pattern appears to have six well defined sides of nearly equal length.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team
Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole. The composite of near-infrared image data results in red hues for low clouds and green for high ones, giving the Saturnian cloudscape a vivid appearance. This and similar images show the stability of the hexagon even 20+ years after Voyager. Movies of Saturn's North Pole show the cloud structure maintaining its hexagonal structure while rotating. Unlike individual clouds appearing like a hexagon on Earth, the Saturn cloud pattern appears to have six well defined sides of nearly equal length.
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Mysterious Emergence of Pink Ice in The Alps Could Have Dire Consequences
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Mysterious Emergence of Pink Ice in The Alps Could Have Dire Consequences
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Mysterious Emergence of Pink Ice in The Alps Could Have Dire Consequences
Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae that accelerate the effects of climate change.
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This animation shows a purple burst of gas gurgling in front of a background infrared image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile caught the fireworks-like activity when scientists took a new look at the star cluster called G286.21+0.17. This imagery shows the dynamic and chaotic process of star birth, as turbulence plays out on one side of the gas clouds, and stellar winds from the baby stars cause a stir on the other side.
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Scientists Discover Extremely Tiny Dinosaur Ancestor in Madagascar
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Scientists Discover Extremely Tiny Dinosaur Ancestor in Madagascar
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Scientists Discover Extremely Tiny Dinosaur Ancestor in Madagascar
Its name was Kongonaphon kely, which means 'tiny bug slayer', and it was about the size of a coffee cup. But big things lay ahead for this little creature. Very big things indeed.
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Earth's Magnetic Field Could Be Changing Much Faster Than We Ever Realised
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Earth's Magnetic Field Could Be Changing Much Faster Than We Ever Realised
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Earth's Magnetic Field Could Be Changing Much Faster Than We Ever Realised
The Earth's magnetic field flips, every few hundred thousand years or so on average, which means magnetic north becomes magnetic south and vice versa (the planet doesn't actually turn upside down). New research suggests this change of direction can
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Interstellar Travel Could Make Human Language Evolve Beyond Recognition, Study Says
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Interstellar Travel Could Make Human Language Evolve Beyond Recognition, Study Says
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Interstellar Travel Could Make Human Language Evolve Beyond Recognition, Study Says
It's a captivating idea: build an interstellar ark, fill it with people, flora, and fauna of every kind, and set your course for a distant star! The concept is not only science fiction gold, its been the subject of many scientific studies and propo
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For The First Time, Scientists Find a Way to Make Targeted Edits to Mitochondrial DNA
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For The First Time, Scientists Find a Way to Make Targeted Edits to Mitochondrial DNA
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For The First Time, Scientists Find a Way to Make Targeted Edits to Mitochondrial DNA
Most cells in your body come with two genetic libraries; one in the nucleus, and the other inside structures called mitochondria - also known as the 'powerhouses of the cell'.
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Neptune's Moons Are Caught in One of The Strangest Orbits Ever Seen
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Neptune's Moons Are Caught in One of The Strangest Orbits Ever Seen
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Neptune's Moons Are Caught in One of The Strangest Orbits Ever Seen
Life isn't always easy for astrophysicists: just when they've figured out another aspect of the patterns of movement in our Solar System, along come two of the moons of Neptune to mess everything up.
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There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific. Here's What Lives There
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There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific. Here's What Lives There
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There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific. Here's What Lives There
In the centre of the South Pacific, there's a place as far away from land as anyone on Earth could ever hope to get. The ocean is different there.
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Humans Actually Have an Irrational Preference For Round Numbers
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Humans Actually Have an Irrational Preference For Round Numbers
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Humans Actually Have an Irrational Preference For Round Numbers
Would you rather save 90 percent with a product discount, or 91.27 percent? New research suggests that our minds are wired to prefer nice, round numbers over irregular ones, even when the irregular option means a better deal overall.
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How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear
The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition.
Researchers have recently shown that the distinct phases of the heartbeat exert sharply different effects on the brain’s processing of external and emotional stimuli.
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The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition.
Researchers have recently shown that the distinct phases of the heartbeat exert sharply different effects on the brain’s processing of external and emotional stimuli.
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This is one of the best pictures ever taken of ISS from Earth.
The pic was made by astrophotographer Thierry Legault on June 24 and 25, 2020 when International Space Station was passing in front of the Sun.
You can clearly see the station's robotic arm Canadarm2 and docked SpaceX Dragon capsule.
The Canadarm2 is 17.6 meters (57.7 feet) long when fully extended, but as you can see here, it was bent at the elbow over 90 degrees. At the time the picture was taken, an external pallet, or stowage platform, was attached to the end of the arm.
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The pic was made by astrophotographer Thierry Legault on June 24 and 25, 2020 when International Space Station was passing in front of the Sun.
You can clearly see the station's robotic arm Canadarm2 and docked SpaceX Dragon capsule.
The Canadarm2 is 17.6 meters (57.7 feet) long when fully extended, but as you can see here, it was bent at the elbow over 90 degrees. At the time the picture was taken, an external pallet, or stowage platform, was attached to the end of the arm.
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Three Spacecraft Need to Leave For Mars in The Next Two Weeks or Wait Until 2022
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Three Spacecraft Need to Leave For Mars in The Next Two Weeks or Wait Until 2022
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Three Spacecraft Need to Leave For Mars in The Next Two Weeks or Wait Until 2022
By this time next year, Mars will be abuzz with robotic activity.
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These Giant Condors Can Fly For Hours Without Flapping Their Wings Even Once
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These Giant Condors Can Fly For Hours Without Flapping Their Wings Even Once
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Andean condors are the heaviest soaring bird in the world, with a single individual weighing up to about 16 kilos (or 35 pounds). When it comes to keeping these hefty bodies aloft, the sky is very much the limit, according to new research.