From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some of its finest magnetic threads in sharper detail than ever before, and those tiny features could change how you think about solar storms that shake…
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December 2025 Stargazing Bucket List: Must-See Night Sky Events
December closes the year with a sky that refuses to wind down. While the world turns to holiday lights and early sunsets, the night above brings its own show with sharp meteor peaks, bright planets sitting low but steady, and long winter nights…
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Seafloor lava rubble has soaked up carbon for millions of years
Sixty-million-year-old rock samples drilled from deep beneath the South Atlantic have clarified a quiet but powerful climate process. Vast heaps of broken lava on the seafloor can lock away carbon dioxide for geological timescales.
In a study led…
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Critical Baikonur Launch Pad Hit by Damage After Soyuz MS-28 Liftoff – The Times Of Central Asia
- Critical Baikonur Launch Pad Hit by Damage After Soyuz MS-28 Liftoff The Times Of Central Asia
- NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station NASA (.gov)
- Soyuz MS-28: Launch pad damaged as Russian rocket blasts off for space…
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Chemists Confirm ‘High-Energy Water’ That Supercharges the Bonds Holding Molecules Together
Water molecules are a driving force in the formation of molecular bonds, for example in proteins. Credit: INT, KIT. Water has a split personality. When it’s flowing freely in a glass or a river, it’s the easygoing liquid we all…
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Chinese scientists achieve breakthrough by giving rare earth elements an “energy conversion coat”
Highlights
- Tsinghua University team developed an “energy conversion coat” that enables rare-earth nanocrystals to overcome their insulating properties and achieve tunable electroluminescence, publishing results in Nature.
- The…
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Scientists find toxic metals hidden in popular plastic toys
Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), working together with the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL), have found significant amounts of hazardous chemicals in plastic toys sold throughout Brazil. The team examined 70 products,…
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Derek Evered obituary | Fencing
My fencing coach Derek Evered, who has died aged 100, began his working life as a lab assistant at 14 and rose to become reader in biochemistry, and deputy to the professor, at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, now part of King’s…
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Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform
A Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, as well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, for an eight-month mission to the…
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Divers Recently Discovered a Statue with Human Fingerprints, Submerged in a Lake for 3,000 Years
A statue more than 3,000 years old has been found at the bottom of Lake Bolsena in central Italy, surprising researchers with human fingerprints still visible on its surface. The artifact, recovered by a team of underwater archaeologists, is…
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