The Full Moon is just around the corner, so there’s plenty of things to spot on the surface, with or without visual aids.
What is today’s moon phase?
As of Sunday, Nov. 2, the moon phase is Waxing…
Category: 7. Science
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A new microscopy breakthrough is revealing the oceans’ invisible life
Plankton are the unseen drivers of life on Earth. These microscopic organisms produce a large share of the planet’s oxygen and form the base of the ocean food chain. They are also astonishingly diverse, with tens of thousands of species already…
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Soil microbes remember drought and help plants survive
A new study in Nature Microbiology analyzes soils collected across Kansas to test the role of “legacy effects,” which refers to how soils at a given site are shaped by microbes that have adapted to the local climate over many years.
“The bacteria…
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Soil microbes remember drought and help plants survive
A new study in Nature Microbiology analyzes soils collected across Kansas to test the role of “legacy effects,” which refers to how soils at a given site are shaped by microbes that have adapted to the local climate over many years.
“The bacteria…
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“Really Bizarre” – Physicists Uncover a Quantum Material That Breaks All the Rules – SciTechDaily
- “Really Bizarre” – Physicists Uncover a Quantum Material That Breaks All the Rules SciTechDaily
- Strong magnetic field helps answer a question about the ‘new duality’ in materials physics Phys.org
- NEW QUANTUM MATERIAL BREAKS EVERY RULE IN…
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Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday, 11/1/25
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, JeremyBloom, FarWestGirl and doomandgloom. Alumni…
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‘Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding’
A study has found that microplastics contribute to poor soil health and release heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.
What’s happening?
Researchers at the Institute of Urban Environment at the Chinese Academy of Sciences looked into the effect of…
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We can visit interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS with spacecraft. Here’s how scientists say we’ll do it
Everything scientists have gleaned so far about interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS, they’ve gleaned by looking at them through a telescope.
And what a variety of telescopes scientists have at their disposal today.
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Astronomers Spot a White Dwarf That’s Still Consuming its Planets
When the Sun reaches the end of its main sequence, approximately 5 billion years from now, it will enter what is known as its Red Giant Branch (RGB) phase, during which it will expand and potentially consume Mercury, Venus, and possibly…
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