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  • NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean

    NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean

    A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture: Titan’s interior…

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  • Colliding galaxies create the brightest, fastest growing black holes at their centre

    Colliding galaxies create the brightest, fastest growing black holes at their centre

    New data confirm that the titanic collisions of galaxies ignite the most powerful active galactic nuclei. 

    Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are phases in which supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies actively feed on matter…

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  • NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean

    NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean

    To remotely probe planets, moons, and asteroids, scientists study the radio frequency communications traveling back and forth between spacecraft and NASA’s Deep Space Network. It’s a multilayered process. Because a moon’s body may not have…

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  • A quantum mystery that stumped scientists for decades is solved

    A quantum mystery that stumped scientists for decades is solved

    A global research team led by Rice University physicist Pengcheng Dai has verified the presence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in an unusual quantum spin liquid. Reported in Nature Physics, the work points to the crystal…

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  • From prey to predator: how carnivores spread beneficial fungi

    From prey to predator: how carnivores spread beneficial fungi

    Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the fruiting bodies of plants and fungi and pass seeds and spores through their digestive systems.

    Mycorrhizal…

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  • Backyard insect inspires large-scale invisibility particles production

    Backyard insect inspires large-scale invisibility particles production

    BYLINE: Jamie Oberdick

    UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When most people see a leafhopper in their backyard garden, they notice little more than a tiny green or striped insect flicking…

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  • Researchers Unlock Clues to the Origin of the Longest Gamma-ray Burst Ever Observed – News

    Researchers Unlock Clues to the Origin of the Longest Gamma-ray Burst Ever Observed – News

    Astronomers have observed the longest gamma-ray burst — a powerful, extragalactic explosion that lasted more than seven hours. It was so extraordinary that several teams of scientists have been poring over a flood of…

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  • Orbital Rendezvous Paves the Way for In-Orbit Satellite Servicing – extremetech.com

    1. Orbital Rendezvous Paves the Way for In-Orbit Satellite Servicing  extremetech.com
    2. Starfish Space and Impulse Space demonstrate autonomous spacecraft proximity operations  SpaceNews
    3. The Fishy Inspiration Behind a Bold, Tandem Space Mission  

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