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Voyager 1 CONFIRMS what WE ALL FEARED at the edge of the Solar System

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Over 46 years since its release, Voyager 1—NASA’s farthest and oldest spacecraft—has returned a message from the boundary of our solar system that’s disrupting the way we consider the space outside our solar neighborhood. What it confirmed is something scientists have long theorized but never actually established—until now. The interface between our solar system and […]

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Breaking: Live Colossal Squid Filmed in World First

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The colossal squid, a mysterious creature lurking in the Antarctic abyss, has finally made a cameo, a cohort of scientists say. You may have heard of the giant squid, which is famous from mariners’ legends and for its epic battles with sperm whales,The colossal squid is even bigger and more mysterious. It’s so elusive, living in the deep ocean

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The Death of Life: What Happens After the End of the World?

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The Death of Life: What Happens After the End of the World? If the world were to end, what would remain? Not the monuments we built, not the cities that once bustled, and not the digital archives that documented our triumphs and tragedies. The end of the world is not just the collapse of buildings

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Supermassive Black Hole Found in Dwarf Galaxy Next to The Milky Way

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Astronomers have stumbled on a black hole roughly 600,000 times more massive than the Sun in a dwarf galaxy next to the Milky Way, according to a new study to be published in The Astrophysical Journal. Researchers inferred the black hole’s presence from the trajectories of 21 hypervelocity stars zipping through the Milky Way’s outskirts, finding that

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Elusive Stem Cells Discovered in Human Retina May Lead to Treatment for Blindness

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Scientists say they have found a long–sought-after population of stem cells in the retina of human fetuses that could be used to develop therapies for one of the leading causes of blindness. The use of fetal tissue, a source of ethical debate and controversy in some countries, likely wouldn’t be necessary for an eventual therapy:

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Scientists Breed Honey Bees to Fight Deadly Parasite

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The greatest threat to honey bees isn’t much larger than a pinhead. But left unchecked, the varroa mite—a blind, eight-legged parasite—can kill enough bees to doom an entire colony. Now, researchers report that a strain of honey bee bred to fight back survives much better than standard commercial colonies, even under the stressful conditions of

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Shingles Vaccine Guards Against Dementia, Study Reveals

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A vaccine for shingles could protect against dementia according to a new study that took advantage of a quirk in Wales’ vaccine rollout scheme. Shingles is a condition characterized by localized blistering, which largely affects adults who’ve previously had chickenpox. The varicella zoster virus that causes both of the conditions invades the nervous system before falling dormant, only to emerge again long

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Your Body Fat May Be Shaped by The Month You Were Conceived

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The season in which you were conceived could have a surprising impact on how your metabolism works today. The largest study of its kind has found that individuals conceived in colder months store fat differently from those conceived in warmer months.Among 356 healthy young male volunteers, researchers in Japan found that those who were conceived

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Terraforming Mars Isn’t Impossible. New Study Describes First Step.

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Terraforming Mars has been the long-term dream of colonization enthusiasts for decades. But when you start to grapple with the actual physics of what would be necessary to do so, the effort seems further and further out of reach.Depictions like those of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy are just wildly unrealistic regarding the sheer amount of material that

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