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Hubble spies the culprit behind Betelgeuse star’s dimming
The Hubble Space Telescope may have solved the mystery of why Betelgeuse, a massive bright star,…
429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil ‘almost identical to that of modern bees’
Digital microscopy showed the fossilised trilobite had a ‘fully modern type of visual system’ similar to…
Weird ‘boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean
The temblor shot across the seafloor and back to where it started so fast it created…
Mystery solved: 240-million-year-old reptile with ‘extraordinarily long neck’ lived in the ocean
Tanystropheus was first described in 1852 but until now, scientists didn’t know whether the 6m-long reptile…
Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ detected closer to Earth than ever before
Most FRBs originate hundreds of millions of light-years away. This one came from inside the Milky…
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Microsoft Excel: 1 — Human Genetics: 0. Read more at The Verge…
The Tragic Physics of the Deadly Explosion in Beirut
A blast injury specialist explores the chemistry—and history—of explosions like the one captured in videos that…
Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice, not water, study suggests
As the Perseverance rover heads to Mars to look for signs of ancient life, a new…
To Make Oxygen on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Needs MOXIE
A new tool from the space agency may produce the gas, completing the next step for…
Earth’s asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago
Looking at impact craters on both the Earth and Moon, a team of scientists found that…
As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity
For many nations and their people, space is becoming the ultimate frontier. Read more at Inverse…
SpaceX Satellites Ruin Photographer’s Shots of Comet NEOWISE
As NASA recently warned, the light pollution caused by the boom in satellites is indeed “wreaking…
First underwater methane leak discovered near Antarctica
What’s worse, Antarctica’s methane-eating microbes aren’t doing their jobs. Read more at livescience.com…
Why You Can Smell a Fart Through a Mask
As that anti-masker having a tantrum in a Panera pointed out, you can smell a fart…
NASA Warns of Huge Asteroid Is Approaching Earth | KISS 95-7 | Gavin
NASA has announced that a “potentially dangerous” asteroid is about to fly by the planet July…
MIT releases deepfake video of ‘Nixon’ announcing NASA Apollo 11 disaster
MIT and Modzilla want people to better understand the disturbing power of deepfake videos in a…
DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms
Researchers at DeepMind propose a new technique that automatically discovers a reinforcement learning algorithm from scratch.…
Oxford coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response
Trials involving 1,077 people showed injection led to them making antibodies and t-cells that can fight…
Historic Moon Landing Footage Has Been Enhanced by AI, And The Results Are Incredible
As exciting and thrilling as it is to watch all the historic footage from the Apollo…