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A selection of states in the northern U.S. may have an opportunity to view the northern lights on Wednesday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The forecast follows a period of geomagnetic storms earlier in…
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Discovery at Earth’s ‘most dangerous glacier’ sparks joy among climate skeptics
Scientists have made a startling discovery that may debunk global warming at Earth’s ‘most dangerous glacier,’ sending climate change deniers into celebration.
Based on a surprising photo taken by the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023,…
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A quantum leap for antimatter measurements
Demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries
In a breakthrough for antimatter research, the BASE collaboration at CERN has kept an…
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Gigantic Great White makes timely Shark Week appearance – The Independent
- Gigantic Great White makes timely Shark Week appearance The Independent
- Shark fears as giant great white lurks dangerously close to this popular East Coast beach: trackers New York Post
- Contender, largest great white shark tagged in Atlantic,…
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Earth is starting to spin faster — and scientists are considering doing something unprecedented
Earth is spinning so fast that global timekeepers are considering something that’s never been done before: adding a negative leap second.
So far this year, July 9 and July 22 have been unusually short — by about 1.3 and 1.4 milliseconds,…
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Enormous asteroid the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa headed toward Earth in just DAYS
An asteroid the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa has been spotted just days before it screams past Earth in the latest near-miss astronomers have tracked.
NASA has announced that asteroid 2025 OW is expected to pass within 393,000 miles of Earth…
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Earth’s Most Dangerous Glacier Is Gaining Ice—And Scientists Can’t Explain Why
A remarkable image taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) offers a breathtaking view of three glaciers merging into one massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountain range. These glaciers, located in one of Earth’s…
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Does Superheating Have No Limit? Solid Gold Superheated To 14 Times Its Melting Point Bypasses The “Entropy Catastrophe”
Researchers have been able to heat up a sample of solid gold to over 14 times its melting temperature for a fraction of a second, bypassing a theoretical limit known as the entropy catastrophe. The approach, known as superheating, might lead to a…
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Why Did The Universe Begin?
Most cosmologists agree that our universe had a beginning. But the finer details about the Big Bang remain a mystery. A history of everything would explain all, or so theoretical physicists hoped. In his final years, Stephen Hawking working…
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How the Brain Decides to Flee or Freeze
Summary: A new study reveals how evolution fine-tunes instinctive fear responses by tweaking a key neural switch deep in the brain. Comparing two deer-mouse species, researchers found that forest-dwelling mice have hypersensitive escape circuits,…
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