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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Play Video arch of over 10 million stars found no signs of alien technology (Key Information) A recent large-scale survey looking for extraterrestrial life scanned over 10 million stars but did not detect any evidence of alien technology. The study, published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA),
High-velocity stars escaping at over 700 km/s are part of the Milky Way-Andromeda star swap. Key takeaways: _____________________ The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and the largest member of the Local Group. Recent findings reveal that these two galaxies, separated by 2.5 million light-years, have
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The Moon’s far side blocks Earth’s radio signals, creating an ideal space for clean science. Key Takeaways ____________ Astronomers and space scientists are amplifying calls to preserve the Moon’s far side as a unique radio silence zone for scientific research. The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) hosted the inaugural Moon Farside Protection Symposium on March
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