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Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’
When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers…
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations
The arxiv database used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of…
Somehow, a Monstrous Supermassive Black Hole Has Gone Missing
The Universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Abell 2261 is in a class of its…
Scientists think they’ve detected radio emissions from an alien world
Scientists used a radio telescope in the netherlands to study three different stars known to host…
Shock test in boy, 4, could rewrite coronavirus timeline
A university in Italy claims to have found evidence of the first case of coronavirus one…
Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe
Physicists give us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in…
NASA’s new Hubble images will blow your mind
NASA just released a treasure trove of cosmic imagery. Read more at Mashable ME…
MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial
In the late 1970s and early 1980s MDMA was often utilized to help facilitate positive results…
After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s cipher has been solved by amateur code breakers
More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern…
Scientists Devise a Method to Edit Mitochondrial DNA. Here’s How It Works and Why It Matters
There’s a mini second genome inside your cells, but no one could figure out how to…
Farmer fish become first animal found domesticating another species
Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals to be either…
Mathematician Solves Centuries-Old Grazing Goat Problem Exactly
Mathematicians and math enthusiasts have been pondering this problem in various forms for more than 270…
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
Guellati-khélifa gauges the fine-structure constant by measuring how strongly rubidium atoms recoil when they absorb a…
Most detailed 3D map ever of Milky Way includes nearly 2 billion stars
The new data it offers provides measurements that are “orders of magnitude” more exact than prior…
The mystery of how insects developed wings has finally been solved
In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal…
This chart shows how far we’ve come in fighting cancer
For much of the 20th century, cancer was an unspeakable diagnosis. But the equation has shifted,…
Voyager Probes Spot Previously Unknown Phenomenon in Deep Space
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft may be billions of miles away and over 40 years old, but they’re…
MIT machine learning models find gaps in coverage by Moderna, Pfizer, other Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccines | ZDNet
Vaccine makers need to take into account genetic diversity explicitly in clinical trials or risk missing…
Tennessee baby breaks world record after being born from 27-year-old frozen embryo – Flipboard
A Tennessee baby born from an embryo frozen for 27 years has set a new known…