Sky smiled back! In the early hours of Friday, April 25, skywatchers around the globe witnessed a rare celestial event — a “smiley face” in the sky, thanks to a phenomenon known as a “triple conjunction”.
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Hawaii’s ‘bone collector’ caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey
OAHU — In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species that makes a living in such a macabre way that they have nicknamed it the “bone…
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‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life
The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds of millions of potentially habitable planets. Astronomers are using powerful space…
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Why are meteor showers so unpredictable? The sun may be to blame
Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth’s meteor showers, according to new research that discovers why streams of comet dust bob and weave in and out of Earth’s orbit.
Stargazers are familiar with half…
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US Marines deploy unmanned surface vessels for logistics experiments
The U.S. Marine Corps is deploying unmanned surface vessels to Japan to streamline logistics across the Indo-Pacific region.
Built by U.S. defense company Leidos, the USVs are engineered to supply distributed forces in contested environments,…
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Teens Invent Packaging to Replace Plastic, to Pitch to Amazon, FedEx
Three teenage boys in New York City have invented a clever packaging material that they hope will replace toxic plastics and make plastic-free shipping a reality.
Zhi Han (Anthony) Yao, Flint Mueller, and James Clare…
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