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Space Debris Has Hit And Damaged The International Space Station
The inevitable has occurred. A piece of space debris too small to be tracked has hit…
The best dark matter map to date raises questions about the universe | Engadget
Scientists have released the most precise map of dark matter to date, but it only serves…
Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’
The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the…
Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma
Sailing through the smooth waters of vacuum, a photon of light moves at around 300 thousand…
An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help
An artificial intelligence has disproved five mathematical conjectures, despite not being equipped with any information about…
What if The Heart of The Milky Way Isn’t Actually a Black Hole Like We Thought?
We sort-of take it for granted that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of…
Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing…
“Big Surprise!” – Heavy Metal Vapors Unexpectedly Found in Comets Throughout Our Solar System – and Beyond
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large…
AI searched for single-atom-alloy catalysts, found 200 promising candidates
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Germany have presented a new search algorithm for…
Newly Discovered Quasicrystal – “Magnificent in Its Complexity” – Was Created by the First Nuclear Explosion at Trinity Site
Discovery of new material could someday aid in nuclear nonproliferation. A newly discovered quasicrystal that was…
Emergency oxygen enemas could help us “breathe” through our intestines
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that some mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines. The…
New Evidence for Controversial Theory That the Electron Is Composed of Two Particles
New Evidence for Electron’s Dual Nature Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid Results from a Princeton-led…
In 1.3 Million Years, a Star Will Come Within 24 Light-Days of the Sun – Universe Today
Using data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of Russian scientists have concluded that a star…
Hormone Drugs May Disarm Coronavirus Spike Protein and Stop COVID-19 Disease Progression
A new Penn Medicine study shows how anti-androgen drugs disrupt key receptors required for viral invasion…
Solar Storm Incoming: A Particularly Intense Geomagnetic Storm Will Hit Earth on May 13
A geomagnetic storm (also known as a solar storm) with a speed of more than 1.3…
Solar Storm Incoming: A Particularly Intense Geomagnetic Storm Will Hit Earth on May 13
A geomagnetic storm (also known as a solar storm) with a speed of more than 1.3…
Solar Storm Incoming: A Particularly Intense Geomagnetic Storm Will Hit Earth on May 13
A geomagnetic storm (also known as a solar storm) with a speed of more than 1.3…
New sub-Neptune exoplanet discovered by astronomers
A team of astronomers from the Grenoble Alpes University in France and elsewhere, reports the detection…
‘Living Fossil’ Thought Extinct For 273 Million Years Found Thriving on Ocean Floor
A symbiotic relationship between two marine lifeforms has just been discovered thriving at the bottom of…