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  • Scientists find evidence for theorized gargantuan star explosions – Reuters

    1. Scientists find evidence for theorized gargantuan star explosions  Reuters
    2. Forbidden Range Of Gravitational Waves Hints At Supernovae So Powerful That They Can’t Form Black Holes  IFLScience
    3. Black hole mergers put limits on star-destroying…

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  • “It has five limbs covered in hundreds of hydraulic, rubbery feet and no head – or even a defined front, back, left or right” – what on Earth are echinoderms?

    “It has five limbs covered in hundreds of hydraulic, rubbery feet and no head – or even a defined front, back, left or right” – what on Earth are echinoderms?

    It’s possible to make a pretty good stab at where most animals sit on the tree of life. It doesn’t take a huge imaginative leap to see how fish could give rise to amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, or how a worm-like creature could,…

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  • Natural protein sequences represent only a fraction of what’s theoretically possible

    Natural protein sequences represent only a fraction of what’s theoretically possible

     

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  • Warm gas ring found around a newborn star

    Warm gas ring found around a newborn star

    A phenomenal event residing in the frigid dark of the Taurus molecular cloud. Kyushu University and Kagawa University astronomers observed a ring of warm gas surrounding a newborn star that formed in these early stages of stellar development…

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  • A New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The Neanderthals in Europe : ScienceAlert

    A New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The Neanderthals in Europe : ScienceAlert

    An international team of researchers has found that Neanderthals suffered a major population crash that started around 75,000 years ago.

    While they did bounce back for a while, almost all late Neanderthals in Europe were descendants of one…

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  • The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be “superionic”

    The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be “superionic”

    Washington, DC—The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according to new computational simulations by Carnegie’s Cong Liu and Ronald Cohen. 

    Their work,…

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  • Tiny comet shows first-ever spin reversal

    Tiny comet shows first-ever spin reversal

    This artist’s concept depicts the tiny comet 41P, a Jupiter-family comet. As it approached the sun, frozen gases began to sublimate and shoot material off into space. Scientists analyzing observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found…

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  • MCS calling on volunteers to report jellyfish sightings

    MCS calling on volunteers to report jellyfish sightings

    Moon jellyfish were the most commonly sighted jellyfish over 2024-2025 (Photo: Peter Bardsley/MCS)

    To help scientists learn more about how the UK’s waters are changing, this summer the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is asking…

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