Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and most stars have planets, so logically, planets orbiting two stars at once should be common. However, in reality, planets orbiting binary stars are…
Category: 7. Science
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NASA Deduces That She Is Extremely Thicc
Jupiter’s moon, Europa, has long fascinated scientists. They believe it’s covered in a massive salty ocean, holding almost twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined, making it one of the best places to look for…
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Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: NASA to take stations for moon rocket fueling test
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Artemis 2 fueling test to begin preps tonight
(Image credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner) Good morning, Space Fans!
Today is Saturday, Jan. 31 and tonight NASA is gearing up to to begin its first fueling test…
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Supernova whose light will ‘reappear’ in 60 years could solve the biggest problem in cosmology
Two incredibly rare supernovas that erupted billions of years ago provide a unique opportunity to explain cosmology’s biggest mystery — How fast is the universe expanding?
But there’s a twist: Even though astronomers have already observed…
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The perforant pathway and CA3-Schaffer collateral afferents coordinate to regulate spatial learning
Kunz, L. et al. A neural code for egocentric spatial maps in the human medial temporal lobe. Neuron 109, 2781–2796.e10 (2021).
Chen, S., Cheng, N., Chen, X. & Wang, C. Integration and…
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With speeds of 100 miles per hour, it leaves birds like swifts and albatrosses eating its dust.
You can forget your swifts, your peregrine falcons, and your grey-headed albatrosses. They may be fast, but when it comes to level flight, it’s not a bird, but a mammal that holds the record.
Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida…
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Jupiter’s clouds are hiding something big
Towering clouds ripple across Jupiter’s surface in dramatic patterns. Like Earth’s clouds, they contain water, but on Jupiter they are far denser and far deeper. These layers are so thick that no spacecraft has been able to directly observe what…
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Weak magnetism causes big changes in a strange state of matter
Picture a glowing cloud that looks like a neon sign, but instead of water droplets it holds vast numbers of microscopic dust particles suspended in space. This unusual mixture is known as dusty plasma, a rare state of matter that exists both in…
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Late Jurassic predators likely fed often on baby dinosaurs
The Morrison Formation is a notable rock layer from the Upper Jurassic period, recognized for its variety of land animals. Despite over a hundred years of research, we still don’t fully understand how these organisms interact with each…
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NASA’s Perseverance discovers white kaolinite rocks on Mars, revealing millions of years of rainfall and wet conditions |
Bright white rocks. Scattered across the rusty red plains of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted them in Jezero crater which the scientists have been staring at them ever since. At first glance, they might seem ordinary. But analysis…
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