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  • ‘One of the strangest in the solar system’: James Webb telescope spots widespread auroras rolling through Uranus’ atmosphere

    ‘One of the strangest in the solar system’: James Webb telescope spots widespread auroras rolling through Uranus’ atmosphere

    Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope just mapped the mysterious upper atmosphere of Uranus for the first time, revealing strange new features of the planet’s mysterious magnetic field and glowing auroras.

    The James Webb Space…

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  • This New Theory Upends 150 Years of Established Science

    This New Theory Upends 150 Years of Established Science

    Below, co-authors Michael Wong and Robert Hazen share five key insights from their new book, Time’s Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature.

    Michael and Robert are researchers at the Carnegie…

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  • Watch NASA roll Artemis 2 moon rocket off launch pad today to deal with glitch

    Watch NASA roll Artemis 2 moon rocket off launch pad today to deal with glitch

    NASA’s Artemis II Live Views from Kennedy Space Center – YouTube


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    NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket off the launch pad on Wednesday (Feb. 25) to deal with a glitch, and you can watch the long trek live.

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  • What exactly is consciousness? (And does my Venus flytrap have it too?) — Harvard Gazette

    What exactly is consciousness? (And does my Venus flytrap have it too?) — Harvard Gazette

    The brain is constantly managing a myriad of bodily functions, and most of them happen without our being aware of it. So why do some operations rise to the level of awareness? 

    That’s the question at the heart of Michael Pollan’s just…

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  • Peak Mental Sharpness Can Boost Your Productivity by 40 Minutes a Day : ScienceAlert

    Peak Mental Sharpness Can Boost Your Productivity by 40 Minutes a Day : ScienceAlert

    A new study gives us an idea of how much extra working time you may expect to squeeze into each day if your mental capabilities are firing on all cylinders – and it’s more than you might think.

    The team behind the study, from the University…

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  • Scientists find genetic ‘switch’ in mice that turns caring dads into violent brutes

    Scientists find genetic ‘switch’ in mice that turns caring dads into violent brutes

    Flipping a single genetic switch can make doting dads attack their offspring, at least in African striped mice, new research suggests. But the gene itself wasn’t solely responsible for this switch from attentive to aggressive fathering; social…

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  • NASA’s Curiosity Finds Crunchy Nodules Where Ancient Martian Water Once Stood

    NASA’s Curiosity Finds Crunchy Nodules Where Ancient Martian Water Once Stood

    NASA’s Curiosity rover got a closer look at strange geological patterns on Mars: hardened ridges with sandy hollows in between that resemble giant spiderwebs when viewed from above. The ancient formations were created by water…

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  • NASA space telescope gets 1st clear X-ray image of sun-like star blowing a bubble

    NASA space telescope gets 1st clear X-ray image of sun-like star blowing a bubble

    Astronomers have captured the first views of a young sun-like star blowing bubbles, offering a rare glimpse at how our solar neighborhood might have behaved in its youth.

    Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers observed HD 61005 —…

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  • 14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New World

    14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New World

    Ancient tools found in Alaska may shed light on how humans first arrived in the Americas, a new study finds.

    The artifacts, which include items linked with crafting stone tools and ocher, a red mineral often used in ceremonies, are about 600…

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