Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away from Earth.
The rare cosmic event is not one scientists get to see every day.
But thanks to a bit…
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NASA targets April launch for Artemis II lunar mission
The mission is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the Space Launch System rocket with four astronauts onboard.
“I am comfortable and the agency is comfortable with targeting April 1 as our…
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‘Nature has already tested solutions we can learn from’
A team of researchers made a groundbreaking discovery that could “turbocharge crop yields,” according to the Boyce Thompson Institute.
The findings pertained to the unique traits of small land plants known as hornworts and were published in the…
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Climate Change Slows Earth’s Spin: Day Lengthening Unprecedented In 3.6 Million Years – Eurasia Review
- Climate Change Slows Earth’s Spin: Day Lengthening Unprecedented In 3.6 Million Years Eurasia Review
- Earth’s days are getting longer at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is to blame Scientific American
- Human Activity Is Actually Making…
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Simple water trick cuts diesel engine pollution by over 60%
Researchers at the Federal University of Technology Owerri in Nigeria have identified a promising strategy for reducing pollution from diesel engines without hurting their performance. By analyzing studies from around the world, the team examined…
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Our Sun may have escaped the Milky Way’s center with thousands of twin stars
Astronomers have uncovered signs that our Sun may have taken part in a large-scale movement of similar stars that left the inner regions of the Milky Way about 4 to 6 billion years ago. To investigate this possibility, researchers compiled and…
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Largest-ever marine reptile discovered by an 11-year-old girl
Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast.
A stretch of shoreline below Somerset’s crumbling cliffs yielded a bone so…
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Wildflowers evolved fast enough to survive a historic drought
A potted scarlet monkeyflower can look fine one day and collapse a few days later if you forget to water it. But out in the wild, some populations of this same species made it through California’s brutal four-year drought.
The wildflowers…
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Hubble and NASA space telescopes track ‘game-changing’ gamma-ray burst back to neutron star collision in ‘forbidden’ region of the universe
Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation called a gamma-ray burst (GRB) back to its source, finding a collision between extreme stellar remnants called neutron stars within colliding galaxies. This could reveal more about these…
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Maize mysteries: FSU scientists uncover new information on how DNA works in maize
Maize serves as a vital model species for advancing our understanding of plant biology, yet many mysteries remain about the intricate processes governing how DNA works and organizes itself in the genome.
A team of FSU researchers together…
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