Category: 7. Science
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Science history: ‘Father of modern genetics’ describes his experiments with pea plants — and proves that heredity is transmitted in discrete units — Feb. 8, 1865
Milestone: Principles of inheritance discovered
Date: Feb. 8 and March 8, 1865
Where: Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic
Who: Gregor Mendel
On a cold day in February, an Augustinian friar described his experiments breeding garden-variety…
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Ancient bones reveal chilling victory rituals after Europe’s earliest wars
A study published in the journal Science Advances is reshaping how researchers understand early human violence. By closely examining the people who died in what may be one of Europe’s earliest known victory celebrations, scientists are…
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This weird deep-sea creature was named by thousands of people online
The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), working with scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and well known science YouTuber Ze Frank, invited the public to help name a newly identified deep-sea chiton (a type of marine mollusk). The…
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SpaceX resumes Falcon 9 flights with Starlink satellite launch from California
SpaceX successfully sent another batch of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Saturday (Feb. 7), just five days after standing down in the wake of an anomaly during its prior launch.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 25 Starlink satellites…
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Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out
By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties.
The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a bedrock of creativity that’s led to new…
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Runaway Black Holes Are Real After All. Here’s What We Know. : ScienceAlert
Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun.
Imagine if it had been…
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Alfven waves drive stable electric fields that power auroras
by Riko Seibo
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
The shimmering curtains of the aurora form when energetic electrons plunge into Earths upper atmosphere and collide with atoms and molecules, releasing light across the polar skies. For…
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Dark matter core may drive Milky Way center
by Sophie Jenkins
London, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Our Milky Way galaxy may not host a supermassive black hole at its center but instead an enormous concentration of dark matter that exerts an equivalent gravitational influence on…
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‘The beacons were lit!’ A system to detect and map merging black holes
by Jim Shelton
New Haven CT (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations…
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