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Northern lights colors explained
By Janet Loehrke and Stephen J. Beard
Northern lights: Where to see the aurora borealis
By Nathan Diller
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Scientists breakthrough with 'world's purest silicon' set to power next-gen computers
By Jak Connor
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LIVE: SpaceX Launches Another Batch of Starlink Satellites from Florida Coast
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 booster on a record-breaking 21st flight – Spaceflight Now
By Will Robinson-Smith
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites on record 21st flight (video)
By Mike Wall
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida
By Mike Wall
SpaceX reaches nearly 6000 Starlink satellites on orbit following Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now
By Will Robinson-Smith
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Astronomers Discover the Second-Lightest "Cotton Candy" Exoplanet to Date.
By Matt Williams
Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy
By Jennifer Chu
Researchers found a mysterious new planet that is similar to cotton candy
WASP-193b: 'Super fluffy' candy floss planet bigger than Jupiter discovered by astronomers
Scientists Discover Massive Planet as Light And Fluffy as Cotton Candy
By Michelle Starr
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NASA prepares for twin launches of climate science cubesats
By Jeff Foust
NASA's PREFIRE mission is ready to unlock the mysteries of Earth's poles
By Josh Dinner
Five things to know about how NASA's tiny twin polar satellites will study the Arctic and Antarctic
NASA to Discuss New Polar Climate Mission During Media Teleconference
By Tiernan Doyle
NASA's new mission to study polar regions' heat loss to launch on May 22: All you need to know
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More Evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background of the Universe
By Mark Thompson
We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time
By Jonathan O'Callaghan
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When Uranus and Neptune Migrated, Three Icy Objects Were Crashing Into Them Every Hour!
By Mark Thompson
Farmer finds mysterious charred space object on his land…and experts brand it ‘deadly’...
By Jessica Baker and Sayan Bose
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Lava World Away Team Practice: NASA's VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland - Astrobiology
By Keith Cowing
Boeing’s Starliner faces another delay due to helium leak
By Andre Orban
Highly anticipated Boeing Starliner launch gets a new target date
By Deblina Chakraborty and Madeline Holcombe
Boeing Starliner launch delayed AGAIN days after troubled spacecraft was grounded over mysterious...
By Millie Turner
NASA Stuck in the Middle of Starliner Contractors' Valve Fight
By Tim Fernholz
Helium leak delays Starliner crewed test flight
By Jeff Foust
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Crucial Building Blocks Of Life On Earth Can More Easily Form In Outer Space – New Research
By Christian Schroeder
Low-temperature formation of pyridine and (iso)quinoline via neutral–neutral reactions
By Michel Dobrijevic, Alexander M Mebel and Zhenghai Yang
Researchers shed light on how key ingredient for life may form in space
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Orion Nebula Captured In Stunning New James Webb Telescope Photos
By James Farrell
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Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances - Astrobiology
By Keith Cowing
Light and air boost conductivity of polymer semiconductors
By Prachi Patel
Photocatalytic doping of organic semiconductors
By Chi-yuan Yang, Mats Fahlman and Simone Fabiano
Next-generation sustainable electronics are doped with air
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ESA joins forces with NASA to get Europe's rover to Mars
By Leigh Mc Gowran
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NASA spacecraft spots dead robot on Mars surface
By Mark D. Kaufman
Saturday Citations: Mediterranean diet racks up more points; persistent quantum coherence; vegan dogs
By Chris Packham
Fruit fly wing research offers window into birth defects
By Jules Bernstein
Worlds first warm-blooded dinosaurs lived 180 million years ago
The evolutionary twist that could have helped dinosaurs rule Earth
By Katie Hunt
Study suggests dinosaurs evolved body temperature regulation 180 million years ago
By Nina Massey
New research estimates when first warm-blooded dinosaurs roamed the Earth
Dinosaur Migration Hints at Shifts Toward Warm-Bloodedness
By Paul Smaglik
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Weekend Read: Technical University of Denmark Researchers Use GNSS Data to Monitor Ice Loss in Greenland
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How the brain turns light waves into rich colors and experiences
By Eric Ralls
Hue selectivity from recurrent circuitry in Drosophila
By Aljoscha Nern, Alvaro Sanz Diez and Larry Abbott
Brain Circuit for Color Perception Identified
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MIT scientists developed a detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases
By Amit Malewar
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Did Two Life-Forms Merge to Create a New Organelle?
By Harry F. Sanders
Massive solar flare sunspot that caused auroras on Earth now targets Mars
The Strongest Solar Storm in 20 Years Did Little Damage, but Worse Space Weather Is Coming
By Lee Billings and Jonathan O'Callaghan
How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades
Massive sunspot that brought widespread auroras to Earth now targets Mars
By Meredith Garofalo
Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in nearly a decade
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In Photos: NASA's Juno Sends Back Spectacular Images Of Jupiter
By Jamie Carter
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How hunting may have turned humans into long-distance runners
Long-distance running ability 'evolved from early hunting'
By Nilima Marshall
How sweat and stamina helped make humans exceptional runners–and hunters
By Laura Baisas
Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances?
By Michael Le Page
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans
By Bruce Winterhalder and Eugene Morin
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Ancient lull in Earth's magnetic field may have allowed large animals to evolve – Physics World
By Isabelle Dumé
The human brain has been shrinking – and no-one quite knows why
By Jasmin Fox-Skelly
Stunning images of Jupiter’s moon Europa show it has a floating icy shell
By Georgina Torbet
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CO2 increase is 10 times faster today than in the past 50000 years
By Eric Ralls
Current CO2 Growth Rate Fastest in 50,000 Years: Study
By Martina Igini
50000-year-old ice reveals truth that humans causing climate threat
This 50,000-year-old block of ice reveals the true state of CO2 levels now
By Bronwyn Thompson
Global levels of CO2 for 23–24 break all records in human history
By Brian Mchugh
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Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them.
By Andrey Feldman
Did Earth's Multicellular Life Depend on Plate Tectonics?
By Laurence Tognetti
All you need to know about the Earth-sized planet discovered by scientists
Found: An Earth-sized exoplanet named SPECULOOS-3 b
By Samantha Hill
sized exoplanet discovered is only 55-light years away
By Eric Ralls
Earth-sized planet spotted orbiting small star with 100 times sun’s lifespan
By Ian Sample
Earth-Sized World Found Orbiting a Teensy Jupiter-Sized Star
By Michelle Starr
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Einstein was right about bizarre plunging region around black holes
By Prabhat Ranjan Mishra
Study proves black holes have a ‘plunging region,’ just as Einstein predicted
By Jacopo Prisco
Scientists prove Einstein's theory of gravity by observing black hole 'plunge'
By Nina Massey
Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes
By Leah Crane
Scientists discover bizarre region around black holes that proves Einstein right yet again
By Ben Turner
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Canned Bacon Has Survived Warfare, Space, And More
By Andrew Amelinckx
SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity
By Jose A Alvarez, Francisco Domenech and Jacob Vicente
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James Webb Telescope detects the collision of the most distant and oldest supermassive blackholes
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The Origin And Long-Distance Travels Of Upside Down Trees
Scientists solve mystery of ancient 'tree of life'
By Helen Briggs
Bizarre evolutionary roots of Africa's iconic upside-down baobab trees revealed
By Richard Pallardy
Baobab Trees Had a Strange Evolutionary Journey
By Rachel Nuwer
Madagascar's ancient baobab forests are being restored by communities – with a little help from AI
By Seheno Andriantsaralaza Corduant
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Scientists move atoms so close together it may change quantum physics forever -
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8,000-year-old village reveals secrets of surviving climate disasters -
By Jocelyn Solis-moreira
10 captivating images of nebulae captured by NASA telescopes
By Khushi Pal
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NASA's Artemis IV: Building Gateway, Humanity's First Lunar Space Station
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Some of The Oldest Stars in The Universe Were Just Found Orbiting The Milky Way
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New 3D map charted with Google AI reveals 'mysterious but beautiful' slice of human brain
By Sneha Khedkar
Google researchers map tiny fragment of the brain - What they found was incredible -
By Chris Melore
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers
Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain
By Ian Sample
Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain
By Jacopo Prisco
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