“Every centimeter of sea level rise exposes another 2 million people to annual flooding somewhere on our planet.”When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ice loss has […]
It’s not that sulfur is a great indication that a planet is inhabited. Instead, it’s the opposite. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets. It’s not that
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How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy’s prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which reveals 300 potential ‘missing link black holes’, could help to unravel it.Astronomers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to discover a treasure trove of black holes, many of which are rare “missing links” in the cosmic monsters’
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The U.S. Postal Service issued a Priority Mail stamp Jan. 21, 2025, highlighting an image of the spiral galaxy NGC 628 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Greg Breeding, an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, designed the stamp with an image from NASA, ESA, CSA, the Space Telescope Science Institute, researchers Janice Lee
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100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn’t have done it without a little help. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk
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French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a “crucial milestone” in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes.Nuclear fusion has the much-vaunted potential to provide the world with clean, safe and nearly inexhaustible energy – but the scientific holy grail has remained stubbornly elusive over decades. The
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Just two servings of yogurt a week may protect the bowels from some specific types of cancer, according to a new long-term study in the US. For years now, scientists have suspected yogurt and its living bacteria have benefits for gastrointestinal health, and yet not all research on the topic aligns on what those benefits are and when
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A new model of Alzheimer’s disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex condition – while bringing all manifestations of the condition under one unifying theory.Researchers from Arizona State University suggest that stress granules – protein and RNA clumps that form around cells in stressful conditions due to genetic and
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About 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 million years ago by erupting volcanoes. Known as the Toongi deposit, this site is rich in so-called rare earths: a collection of 16 metallic elements essential for modern technologies from electric cars to solar panels
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An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday – making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation and the James
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