Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by violent cosmic events, such as the merging of black holes. So far, direct detections have relied on measuring tiny distance changes over kilometer-scale instruments. In a new…
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Hubble catches comet breaking apart by accident
This series of Hubble Space Telescope images of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or K1 for short, was taken over the course of three consecutive days: November 8, 9, and 10, 2025. Captured by Hubble&rsquos STIS instrument. Photos… Continue Reading
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Early life chronic stress-disrupted activity of the dorsal raphe nucleus selectively drives behavioral impairments
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Astronomers keep finding new moons of Jupiter and Saturn
A multitude of new moons have made their presence known around Jupiter and Saturn, bringing their population of moons to 101 and 285, respectively.
The new discoveries also bring the total number of known moons orbiting planets and dwarf planets…
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Solar-Eclipsing Probe Back From the Dead After a Month of Silence
A pair of spacecraft has been flying in formation, creating an artificial solar eclipse to help scientists probe the elusive outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere. For the past month, however, one of the spacecraft has been…
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US Space Force moves GPS launch to SpaceX Falcon 9 due to Vulcan rocket glitch
The U.S. Space Force has swapped rockets for an upcoming GPS satellite launch.
Next month’s GPS III-8 mission had been slated to fly atop United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket. But Vulcan has experienced issues with its solid…
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CERN’s ALICE Collaboration Finds Evidence Of Quark-Gluon Plasma In Proton Collisions
Researchers with the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider have found evidence that a state of matter resembling the earliest moments of the universe, quark-gluon plasma, can arise even in collisions of comparatively small particles…
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Scientists Finally Solved a Massive Mystery About Static Electricity Using Acoustic Levitation
Levitating matter with sound. Experimental setup with an acoustically levitated particle of silica. Credit: Thomas Zauner/ISTA When microscopic particles of sand, ash, or dust collide in the air, they often exchange a tiny electrical…
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How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASA’s public data archives. More than a dozen NASA science missions turned their instruments to observe…
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Open Framework for Integrating Whole-Slide and Molecular Data
Cell detection with LazySlide in human colon tissue: Immune cells (green), connective tissue cells (blue) and epithelial cells (orange) [Yimin Zheng] Histopathological data remain one of the most trusted tools in science when…
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