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A Painful Deadline Nears as Colorado River Reservoirs Run Critically Low
The federal government has told states to agree on urgent water cuts to ensure dams can…
James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning ‘Phantom Galaxy’ picture looks like a wormhole
The telescope is ‘new, different, and exciting’ for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space…
James Webb telescope is so powerful, it detected water on a distant exoplanet
NASA’s James Webb space telescope is so powerful it can even detect water and other substances…
Black holes may die differently than we thought
New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.…
Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year ‘Heartbeat’, But We Have No Idea What Causes It
In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and…
“Chance of Impact 100%” – Fifth Asteroid Ever Discovered Before Impact
Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions of years, after…
We Finally Have a Genetic Link Between Ovarian Cancer And This Common Disorder
Scientists have found a genetic link and a potentially causal relationship between endometriosis and some types…
Researcher uses 379-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild
It takes only a second to crack the handful of weak keys. Are there more out…
A Dead Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon, and Scientists Are Thrilled
The impact likely obliterated the chunk of space junk in a white hot explosion. Read more…
How artificial intelligence can help us figure out how life began
How inanimate molecules first arranged themselves into life is one of the great mysteries. The answer…
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures…
Webb Telescope reaches major milestone: All its light is in one place
A single dot means we’re nearly halfway through focusing the telescope. Read more at Ars Technica…
Tick survives 27 years in researcher’s lab, 8 years without food
One female also managed to store sperm for at least four years and then successfully reproduce…
A Forgotten Continent From 40 Million Years Ago May Have Just Been Rediscovered
A low-lying continent that existed some 40 million years ago and was home to exotic fauna…
Breaking Cosmology: Too Many Disk Galaxies – “A Significant Discrepancy Between Prediction and Reality”
A study by the University of Bonn: Observations fit poorly with the Standard Model of Cosmology.…
Newfound variant of HIV progresses to AIDS faster and may be more transmissible
Available treatments work equally well against the variant. Read more at livescience.com…
For The First Time, a Lone Black Hole Has Been Found Wandering The Milky Way
Like an ancient cardigan, the Milky Way should be absolutely riddled with black holes. Read more…
A strange object in space is blasting out radio waves every 18 minutes
Something extraordinarily bright in space is pulsing far slower than most similar cosmic objects, and it…
BOOM! A New Kind of Supernova Has Been Discovered
We often think of supernova explosions as inevitable for large stars. Big star runs out of…