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Why bits of continents keep turning up in the middle of oceans

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.

Watching the Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the…

SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 after a second stage failure resulted in the spent rocket tumbling uncontrollably back to Earth.

According to SpaceX: “The second stage experienced an off-nominal condition during preparation…

The deceased: A 39-year-old man in the United States

The autopsy findings: Medical examiners evaluated the man after a deadly fight, during which a stab wound had punctured a vein in his lungs. They noted that the man’s heart was slightly…

For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence of bacteria hiding in ‘noninfectious’ kidney stones.

These hardened clumps of small crystals are made from chemicals in urine and are thought to form due to a lack of fluid or a high…

A possible rocky exoplanet referred to as a ‘cold Earth’ that could orbit on the outer edge of the habitable zone has been found around a star 146 light-years away.

Known as HD 137010b, the exoplanet is considered at this stage to be a candidate…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

You’ve probably been in this situation: you just had a big lunch or a tall carbonated drink, and out of nowhere a burp rises in…

Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than scientists thought for decades, a new study finds.

Researchers used radio data from the Juno spacecraft to refine measurements of the solar system’s largest planet. Although the differences between…

The launch of the Artemis II mission to send humans around the Moon is fast approaching. The Register had a go at building Lego’s latest SLS set and found it a lot of fun, particularly making whooshing noises as the rocket “launches.”

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Each time we’ve looked at the Universe in a fundamentally new way, we didn’t just see more of what we already knew was out there. In addition, those novel capabilities allowed the Universe to surprise us, breaking records,…