Comet 3I/ATLAS is an immensely interesting object. It was discovered on 1 July 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope in Chile, when it was 4.5 AU
from the Sun.
Its hyperbolic trajectory quickly revealed…
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Scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase comet 3/ATLAS out of the Solar System
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Antarctica has a strange gravity hole and scientists finally know why
Gravity often feels dependable and unchanging. It seems steady enough that we rarely question it. But the real picture is more surprising.
In reality, gravity does not have exactly the same strength everywhere on Earth. Its pull varies slightly…
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Physicists finally see strange magnetic vortices predicted 50 years ago
Materials can behave in surprising ways when they are thinned down layer by layer until they are only a single atom thick. In a new study published in Nature Materials, physicists led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin observed a…
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Physicists finally see strange magnetic vortices predicted 50 years ago
Materials can behave in surprising ways when they are thinned down layer by layer until they are only a single atom thick. In a new study published in Nature Materials, physicists led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin observed a…
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TREM2 helps macrophages survive and repair radiation damaged skin
Recently, teams led by Prof. Yiming Zhang from Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University,Prof. Fazhi Qi from Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, and Prof. Junli Zhou from the Tenth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical…
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New technology could transform recycling of polyethylene and polypropylen
By Alimat Aliyeva
Scientists at the University of Buffalo (USA) have developed an
innovative method for recycling flexible plastics, which could
significantly expand the possibilities for reusing the most common
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Learning strengthens coordination among sensory neurons in the brain
When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, sharing information rather than…
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Underwater Antarctic earthquakes fuel explosions of surface life
Deep beneath the waves, the ocean floor is anything but quiet. Plates grind, rocks crack, and heat escapes.
For decades, scientists thought those deep movements stayed deep, locked far below the surface where sunlight never reaches. That…
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Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey – Nature
- Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey Nature
- Historian Finds Scribbles in 500-Year-Old Book, Showing Galileo Galilei’s Slow and Steady Rejection of the Geocentric World ZME Science
- Historian…
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Tiny clump of moss helped solve a shocking cemetery crime
In 2009, investigators uncovered a disturbing scandal at a cemetery outside Chicago. Employees at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, were accused of digging up older graves, relocating the remains to other areas within the cemetery, and then…
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