An amateur astronomer discovered a new nova appearing in the Cassiopeia constellation last Thursday — and…
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A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Pic. It Will Crush Your Tiny Heart
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gosh, I sure wish I could feel extremely small and…
Police warn students to avoid science website
Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at…
A Woman Got the First Dose of the Moderna Vaccine While Pregnant—and She Passed Her Protective Antibodies to Her Infant
Find out more about the first-known baby to be born with COVID antibodies after her mom…
Scientist behind coronavirus shot says next target is cancer
BERLIN (AP) — The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus…
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing – and this…
Raspberry Pi Cosmic Ray Detector
[Marco] has a sodium iodide detector that indicates cosmic radiation by scintillation. The material glows when…
COVID-19 vaccines are probably less effective at preventing transmission than symptoms – here’s why
Injected vaccines tend to generate good immunity overall but less of a response in the nose…
Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants, say experts
Can the current crop of vaccines get us to herd immunity even if variants become widespread?…
Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch
The venerable hubble space telescope is recovering from a glitch that halted its science operations over…
New Ebola outbreak likely sparked by a person infected 5 years ago
Genome analyses suggesting virus persistence raise worries about stigmatization of survivors. Read more at Science |…
NASA Officials Are Worried That Pirates Will Steal the James Webb Telescope
“Why would you announce that you’re going to be shipping on a certain day something that…
The world’s oldest crater from a meteorite isn’t an impact crater after all
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the…
Scientists Find a Natural Protein That Stops Allergies And Autoimmune Conditions
For the millions of us plagued by hypersensitive, overactive, or downright abusive immune systems, it can…
The moon has a tail, and Earth wears it like a scarf once a month
The tail is invisible to the naked eye but appears on all-sky cameras during every new…
A quantum trick with photons gives machine learning a speed boost
Machine learning, a process used to train artificial intelligences, can take an extremely long time –…
Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Explain the Origins of Life
An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might…
Quantum weirdness isn’t weird – if we accept objects don’t exist
We can grasp the truth about the quantum world, says physicist Carlo Rovelli – as long…
A Dyson Sphere Could Bring Humans Back From the Dead, Researchers Say
This cosmic megastructure may be the key to resurrection—and immortality. Read more at Popular Mechanics…
Scientists uncover secrets of mysterious recurring Mars cloud stretching 1,100 miles
A wild, snaking cloud appears to emerge from the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. Read more…