While most people witness only the familiar crack of thunder and flash of lightning from storms on Earth, brilliantly-colorful electric fireworks detonate much higher, in the thin air up to 55 miles overhead, easily seen from the ISS.
These brief…
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Building Blocks of Life Discovered Circling a Baby Star : ScienceAlert
Molecules capable of forming the precursors to sugars and amino acids have been detected, for the first time, in the disk of dust and gas whirling around a newborn star.
The detection is tentative, but it offers a window into how complex life…
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Ancient humans moved diverse stones over substantial distances: Study
A new study, led by Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, revealed that a 2.6 million-year-old toolkit found in Kenya pushes back evidence of humans transporting resources over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously…
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Australian Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales
Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might have looked for all the world like some weird kind of mash-up between a whale, a seal, and a Pokémon,” according to…
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Astronomers discover mysterious ‘intestellar tunnels’ in space. Here’s more to it
Space is full of surprises, and it continues to baffle even experts! While most of us imagine our Solar System as planets surrounded by an empty void, astronomers are claiming that there’s much more happening in the cosmic neighborhood. New…
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If everyone in the world turned on the lights at the same time, what would happen?
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
The biggest effect of everyone turning lights on at once would be a surge in demand for…
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Scientists just recreated the universe’s first ever molecules — and the results challenge our understanding of the early cosmos
This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com.
For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe’s first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the early universe.
The findings shake up our understanding of…
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How a three-ton Land Rover was engineered to catch air
Professional driver Sean Gorman knows his way around a vehicle. He’s an engineer…
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‘Mysterious Giant’ Hints at The First Detection of a Black Hole Trinary : ScienceAlert
A strange signal in the background hum created by a merger between two black holes could be the first ever detection of a system of three stellar-mass black holes locked in a gravitational waltz.
According to a new analysis of data from the…
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