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Hubble just snapped one of its greatest images ever
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a distant galaxy called NGC 2775 that sits…
Jupiter Just Sprouted a Brand New Spot
An amateur astronomer in South Africa has detected a bright new surface feature rising above the…
Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
The basic idea behind all nuclear power plants is the same: convert the heat created by…
UN reports global e-waste production soared beyond 53 million tonnes in 2019 | ZDNet
That’s equivalent to the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2.…
Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolution
Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a…
Tabletop quantum experiment could detect gravitational waves
Predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are ripples in space-time generated by certain…
The fastest-growing black hole in the universe devours the equivalent of one sun every damn day
A study published yesterday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for the first…
Human-induced climate change reversed 6,500-year global cooling trend
What would Earth’s climate naturally be doing if it weren’t for human intervention? Researchers at Northern…
Theorists calculate upper limit for possible quantization of time
A trio of theoretical physicists at the Pennsylvania State University has calculated the upper limit for…
Japanese Dark Matter Detector is Seeing a “Surprising Excess of Events” – Universe Today
A search for dark matter has found an extra signal in their data that could point…
The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19
The outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic begins to slow (and eventually ceases altogether) because enough people…
So that’s where all the exomoons are hiding, at least according to their shadows
Moons seem to be everywhere these days. There should be fresh boot prints on our own…
Was Coronavirus Really in Europe in March 2019? | RealClearScience
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 may have been in Europe for longer than previously thought.…
An Unexpected Radiation Spike Has Been Detected Over Europe
A mysterious increase in radiation levels over northern Europe was detected this month by authorities from…
New tools to prevent cancer growth and spread: a ‘Clever’ approach
The immune landscape of cancer. Nature 360, 23 (1992). Cas pubmed google scholar 3. Thorsson, v.…
CERN experiment makes first observation of rare events producing three massive force carriers
Modern physics knows a great deal about how the universe works, from the grand scale of…
NASA says the SpaceX Crew Dragon module parked at the ISS is generating way more power than expected
So far, NASA seems pleased. Read more at Futurism…
Tiny pendulum may reveal gravity’s secrets
Gravity and quantum mechanics may influence each other as tiny pendulum swings. Read more at Ars…
A supermassive black hole lit up a collision of two smaller black holes
First detected in may 2019 and dubbed s190521g, merger happened about 4 billion light-years away. With…