Scientists have detected the most massive merger of black holes ever. This titanic collision, “heard” in ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves, involves black holes so massive that it could challenge current models of the universe.
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Citizen Science Is All Fun And Games
You are probably familiar with initiatives like Seti@Home, where you donate unused computer power to some science project that needs computer cycles. [Jeff Yoshimi] wants to borrow your most powerful computer: your brain. The…
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Florida Cat Named Pepper Brings Home Never-Before-Seen Virus—for the Second Time
Last year, Pepper, a pet cat who roams the backyards of Gainesville, Florida, helped a scientist discover a new viral strain. Now, the furry feline is back at it again.
In a new study, scientists have…
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These Sharks Don’t Just Glow Blue – They Use Nanotech to Shift Color Underwater – SciTechDaily
- These Sharks Don’t Just Glow Blue – They Use Nanotech to Shift Color Underwater SciTechDaily
- Blue Sharks May Be Secret Chameleons, Scientists Discover ScienceAlert
- Scientists discover another animal that can change colour The Independent
- “A…
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Parker Solar Probe takes images close to the Sun as primary mission winds down
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On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe traveled closer to the Sun than any spacecraft had before. During this close approach, or perihelion, the spacecraft’s four instruments observed the Sun’s atmosphere from inside. This…
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‘Zombie’ fungus found preserved in amber after 100 million years
‘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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