The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has identified a surprising contrast between the winds blasting away from a disk around a neutron star and those seen near supermassive black holes. The neutron star system produces an unusually…
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Mating injuries could be key to identifying female dinosaur fossils
For ancient duck-billed dinosaurs, mating might have been a bone-jarring, even bone-breaking, affair.
A new study describes a peculiar pattern of tailbone fractures in hadrosaurids (duck-billed dinosaurs) across North America, Europe, and…
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James Webb telescope spots frozen ingredients of life in a distant galaxy, a first-of-its-kind discovery
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Deep fracture in Earth’s mantle created by an unexpected occurrence under India
The Indian tectonic plate is undergoing an unexpected shift under Tibet. According to a study, this plate is splitting into two. This plate, along with the Eurasian plate, crashed into each other millions of years ago, forming the Himalayas and…
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Scientists Discover Mysterious Signs of Life in Bizarre Blue Volcanic Goo : ScienceAlert
Unexpected biosignatures found in a startlingly blue volcanic goo beneath the Pacific Ocean may offer clues to life’s origins.
Exhumed from mud volcanoes near the Mariana Trench, at depths of almost 3,000 meters (9,833 feet), the bizarrely…
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Researchers Develop AI System For Detecting Fast Radio Bursts
Researchers from the Breakthrough Listen initiative have developed a new AI system for detecting Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) that operates on the NVIDIA Holoscan platform. This new system was utilised on the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array…
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3I/ATLAS’ new image revealed! Giant core, strange sunward jets, twin anti-tails, and unseen cosmic secrets |
A remarkable new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has reignited global fascination among astronomers and space enthusiasts alike. As reported, the image is captured by British astronomers Michael Buechner and Frank Niebling. The photograph…
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How the “meter” came to be exactly one meter long
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Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN, Geneva.
The Oxford-led international science team experimented to crack the long-running puzzle of the…
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Ageing stars like sun swallow nearby planets, ‘strong evidence’ suggests
As stars like the Sun exhaust their hydrogen, they begin to expand and cool, transforming into red giants. For the Sun, this dramatic change is expected in around five billion years. Scientists believe this expansion could destroy Mercury,…
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