Imagine you’re standing on the deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean. The waves are rough, but it’s the ocean, so you’re used to that feeling. Suddenly, a monstrous wall of water, two or even three times taller than all the other waves,…
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Myanmar’s Devastating Earthquake in March Split the Earth at ‘Supershear Velocity’
On March 28, Myanmar was rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed over 5,000 lives and caused damage even in neighboring countries.
In a study published July 10 in The Seismic Record,…
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A Sixth Ocean Is Forming as East Africa Splits Apart
Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over millions of years, the…
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What are these strange swirls around an infant star? ‘We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time’
Astronomers have seen what appears to be a forming planet carving out a complex pattern in a disk of gas and dust around a young star. The discovery of this spiral architect could help us better understand how planetary systems like the solar…
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In world breakthrough, scientists see star survive encounter with a black hole – The Times of Israel
- In world breakthrough, scientists see star survive encounter with a black hole The Times of Israel
- Israeli-led team first to observe star survive black hole and return Ynetnews
- This star survived a black hole—and came back for more Phys.org
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In scathing letter, NASA workers rebuke ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at agency
A group of 287 scientists and current and former NASA employees has issued a declaration lambasting budget cuts, grant cancellations and a “culture of organizational silence” that they say could pose a risk to astronauts’ safety.
The…
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Read the NASA ‘Voyager Declaration’ Letter of Dissent to the Trump Administration
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We dissent to changes to NASA’s Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than…Continue Reading
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The Oldest Water on Earth Was Found – And a Geologist Took a Sip
In 2016, a remarkable discovery took place deep beneath the surface of a Canadian mine, where Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar and her team uncovered the oldest water ever found on Earth. The water, located about three kilometers below ground,…
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Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe
Following the Big Bang, our universe expanded at an exponential rate. According to this theory, known as cosmic inflation, the explosive growth produced tiny quantum fluctuations that later evolved…
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Astronomers crack 1,000-year-old Betelgeuse mystery with 1st-ever sighting of secret companion (photo, video)
After a long wait, astronomers have finally seen the stellar companion of the famous star Betelgeuse. This companion star orbits Betelgeuse in an incredibly tight orbit, which could explain one of Betelgeuse’s longstanding mysteries. The star is…
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