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The Entire Earth Is Vibrating Less Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns, Study Reveals
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The Entire Earth Is Vibrating Less Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns, Study Reveals
We humans are a rowdy, disruptive bunch. Our very day-to-day living causes the planet to hum. Quite literally - driving and travelling, digging and construction, industry, and even sports events all contribute to a constant background hum of high-
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Atlantis: the legendary island that sank beneath the waves in the distant past, taking down with it an advanced civilization. Is it possible that we will ever find it? Or, more importantly: Did it even exist? Video: https://youtu.be/top5r1G1L28
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Where Is the Lost City of Atlantis — and Does It Even Exist?
Atlantis: the legendary island that sank beneath the waves in the distant past, taking down with it an advanced civilization. Is it possible that we will ever find it? Or, more importantly: Did it even exist?
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Physicists Just Showed How to Overcome a Huge Obstacle For Fusion Generator Efficiency
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Physicists Just Showed How to Overcome a Huge Obstacle For Fusion Generator Efficiency
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Physicists Just Showed How to Overcome a Huge Obstacle For Fusion Generator Efficiency
Energy generated from nuclear fusion holds plenty of potential as a clean and almost limitless source of power, but many obstacles need to be overcome before it's a practical reality – and scientists may have just clambered over another one.
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Hubble Just Took an Astonishingly Detailed Image of Saturn
The Hubble space telescope has spent the past 30 years orbiting 547 km (340 miles) above Earth. The ageing satellite has had a couple of hiccups in the last few years, but it's not done taking incredible photos of our cosmic backyard yet.
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Mesmerising Animation Reveals Our Entire Solar System Doesn't Exactly Orbit The Sun
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Mesmerising Animation Reveals Our Entire Solar System Doesn't Exactly Orbit The Sun
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Mesmerising Animation Reveals Our Entire Solar System Doesn't Exactly Orbit The Sun
It's common knowledge that the Sun is the centre of the Solar System. Around it, the planets orbit – along with a thick belt of asteroids, some meteor fields, and a handful of far-travelling comets.
Self-replicating Chernobyl mold could protect the ISS from space radiation
Radiation shields made from living organisms could help us head deeper into the cosmos.
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Radiation shields made from living organisms could help us head deeper into the cosmos.
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John Priscu’s search for life that thrives under ice took him to subglacial lakes at the South Pole.
Now he has his eye on Mars and Europa.
The microbial ecologist John Priscu, one of the foremost experts in the study of microorganisms that survive in frozen environments, stands in his sub-zero laboratory at Montana State University. Read here
Now he has his eye on Mars and Europa.
The microbial ecologist John Priscu, one of the foremost experts in the study of microorganisms that survive in frozen environments, stands in his sub-zero laboratory at Montana State University. Read here
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AI Analysed Over 11,000 Couples' Relationships. This Is What It Found
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AI Analysed Over 11,000 Couples' Relationships. This Is What It Found
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A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) study of romantic relationships based on data from thousands of couples has identified the top predictors that make partners feel positively about their relationship – and the findings show romanti
For the first time, scientists have observed that 'megaripples' on Mars – huge sand waves seen on the Martian surface – are moving structures, and not ancient relics stuck in place since the Red Planet's distant past.
Sand dunes and ripples are typical features of deserts on Earth and Mars. Megaripples are distinguished from smaller ripples by the coarser sand grains that gather at their crests and their larger size: the ripples range from 30 centimeters (1 foot) to tens of meters across.
This video shows movement of Martian megaripples in several locations on the Red Planet. You can see the slight change in the ripples’ position over the course of seven to ten years.
Read the original research study here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006446
Sand dunes and ripples are typical features of deserts on Earth and Mars. Megaripples are distinguished from smaller ripples by the coarser sand grains that gather at their crests and their larger size: the ripples range from 30 centimeters (1 foot) to tens of meters across.
This video shows movement of Martian megaripples in several locations on the Red Planet. You can see the slight change in the ripples’ position over the course of seven to ten years.
Read the original research study here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006446
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The World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experiment
Fourteen years after receiving the official go-ahead, scientists on Tuesday began assembling a giant machine in southern France designed to demonstrate that nuclear fusion, the process which powers the Sun, can be a safe and viable energy source on Earth.…
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Success! NASA Just Launched Perseverance on Its Mission to Mars
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Success! NASA Just Launched Perseverance on Its Mission to Mars
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Success! NASA Just Launched Perseverance on Its Mission to Mars
A rocket carrying NASA's most ambitious Mars rover yet has launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, though its crucial journey through space is just beginning.
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Time Travel Simulation Shows Quantum 'Butterfly Effect' Doesn't Exist
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Time Travel Simulation Shows Quantum 'Butterfly Effect' Doesn't Exist
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Time Travel Simulation Shows Quantum 'Butterfly Effect' Doesn't Exist
Here's the story – our protagonist rewinds history, locates baby Hitler, and averts global war by putting him on a path to peace … but, oh noes! This sets off a domino chain of events that stops our hero from being born, or worse, kicks off the
Modified gravity theories have never been able to describe the universe’s first light. A new formulation does.
A view of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Theories of modified gravity have had a hard time describing the universe from relatively small scales like this all the way up to the scale of the universe as a whole.
For decades, a band of rebel theorists has waged war with one of cosmology’s core concepts — the idea that an invisible, intangible form of matter forms the universe’s primary structure. This dark matter, which seems to outweigh the stuff we’re made of 5-to-1, accounts for a host of observations: the tight cohesion of galaxies and packs of galaxies, the way light from faraway galaxies will bend on its way to terrestrial telescopes, and the mottled structure of the early universe, to name a few.
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A view of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Theories of modified gravity have had a hard time describing the universe from relatively small scales like this all the way up to the scale of the universe as a whole.
For decades, a band of rebel theorists has waged war with one of cosmology’s core concepts — the idea that an invisible, intangible form of matter forms the universe’s primary structure. This dark matter, which seems to outweigh the stuff we’re made of 5-to-1, accounts for a host of observations: the tight cohesion of galaxies and packs of galaxies, the way light from faraway galaxies will bend on its way to terrestrial telescopes, and the mottled structure of the early universe, to name a few.
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Yes! SpaceX Just Brought 2 Astronauts Back Home in a Milestone For Human Spaceflight
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Yes! SpaceX Just Brought 2 Astronauts Back Home in a Milestone For Human Spaceflight
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Yes! SpaceX Just Brought 2 Astronauts Back Home in a Milestone For Human Spaceflight
SpaceX just achieved an historic feat that even its CEO, Elon Musk, thought improbable when he founded the rocket company in 2002: flying people to and from space.
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We Have Ploonets. We Have Moonmoons. Now Hold Onto Your Hats For... Blanets
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We Have Ploonets. We Have Moonmoons. Now Hold Onto Your Hats For... Blanets
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It's easy to think of black holes as voracious destruction machines, slurping up everything in their immediate vicinity. But that's not always the case. The environments around active supermassive black holes are complex, and last year, a team of a
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The Majestic Valleys of Mars May Not Have Been Carved by Rivers After All
The question of whether ancient life could have existed on Mars centres on the water that once flowed there, but new research published Monday suggests that many of the Red Planet's valleys were gouged by icy glaciers not rivers.
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We Thought We Knew How Sperm Swam, But It Was Just an Optical Illusion
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We Thought We Knew How Sperm Swam, But It Was Just an Optical Illusion
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We Thought We Knew How Sperm Swam, But It Was Just an Optical Illusion
Sperm is critical for the fertilisation of almost every living organism on our planet, including humans. To reproduce, human sperm have to swim a distance equivalent to climbing Mount Everest to find the egg.
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Planet-Scale Wave Has Been Hiding in The Toxic Clouds of Venus For Decades
Deep in the thick, poisonous clouds wrapped around Venus, the atmosphere is behaving very oddly. A giant, previously unknown planet-scale wall of cloud travels westward around the planet every 4.9 days - and apparently has been doing so since at least 1983.…
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Experts Predicted COVID-19 Would Come in Waves. Now They Say It's a 'Forest Fire'
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Experts Predicted COVID-19 Would Come in Waves. Now They Say It's a 'Forest Fire'
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Experts Predicted COVID-19 Would Come in Waves. Now They Say It's a 'Forest Fire'
US experts scrambled in the spring to predict what the future of the pandemic might look like. Many predicted that the coronavirus – like the seasonal flu – would retreat in the summer before roaring back in a second, more severe wave come fall
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The Force of Nothingness Has Been Used to Manipulate Objects
Scientists can use some pretty wild forces to manipulate materials. There's acoustic tweezers, which use the force of acoustic radiation to control tiny objects. Optical tweezers made of lasers exploit the force of light. Not content with that, n
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Over 100 Years of Searching Hasn't Found Key Differences Between Male And Female Brains
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Over 100 Years of Searching Hasn't Found Key Differences Between Male And Female Brains
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Over 100 Years of Searching Hasn't Found Key Differences Between Male And Female Brains
People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes.