‘Zombie’ fungi that hijack insects are not just a modern forest horror story. A pair of tiny fossils locked in Burmese amber shows that these parasites stalked ants and flies nearly 100 million years ago in what is now Myanmar.
The newly…
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For a few days this summer, your days will be just a smidge shorter – The Washington Post
- For a few days this summer, your days will be just a smidge shorter The Washington Post
- Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter, for Now The New York Times
- Earth’s rotation is speeding up for 3 days this summer — starting today
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Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist
Gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually fading out like ripples in water. But some events are so…
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These are the closest-ever images of the sun from Parker Solar Probe’s historic flyby
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest-ever approach to the sun last December, and we’re finally getting a look at some of the images it captured. The space agency released a timelapse of observations made using Parker’s…
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How 380-Million-Year-Old Lungfish Jawbones Reveal the Origins of Earth’s First Land Animals
A new study published in iScience reveals intriguing insights into the evolutionary origins of mammals through the detailed analysis of 380-million-year-old lungfish jawbones found in the Gogo fossil field, located in northern Western Australia….
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One of the Best Meteor Showers of the Year Is About to Begin—and It Can Be Seen Across the U.S.
The Perseid meteor shower peaks the night of Aug. 12 into the early hours of Aug. 13, with up to 100 meteors per hour visible, especially in dark-sky areas across the U.S.
One of the best shooting star displays of the year is coming to a sky…
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The Crescent Moon And Mars Will Appear Side By Side This Month
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Space, the final frontier… The skies have fascinated and shaped civilizations ever since we first set foot on this planet we call…
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Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes | Space
Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two massive black holes that spiralled into one another far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way.
The black holes, each more than 100 times the mass of the sun, began…
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Human-Constructed Dams Have Shifted the Earth’s Poles, Scientists Say
Humans have built so many dams around the world that the Earth’s poles have wandered away from the planet’s rotational axis, new research suggests.
Over the last 200 years, humans have constructed…
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The World’s Biggest Waterfall Is Hiding in the Ocean… And It’s Far Bigger Than Niagara Falls!
In a world where towering waterfalls like Niagara Falls and Angel Falls capture our imagination, there is one waterfall so vast, yet hidden, that it dwarfs all others. Found beneath the cold waters of the Arctic, the Denmark Strait cataract,…
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