Alien civilizations could eavesdrop on our communications with our spacecraft and rovers, according to a new study – and we might be able to find them the same way. To tell a Mars rover to turn left or an orbiter to change focus, mission scientists have to beam powerful transmissions towards neighboring planets in our Solar System. Of […]
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A chance configuration of objects arrayed across deep space has just revealed the hiding place of a giant glob of dark matter. Configurations like these, known as Einstein crosses, typically consist of four distinct points of light. This particular example, named HerS-3, has a feature never seen before. At the center of the cross appears a fifth
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At the end of the last solar cycle in 2019, the official predictions were that the next cycle would be just as mild as its predecessor. Those predictions were wrong. The current Solar Cycle 25 turned out far stronger than NASA and NOAA expected. Now, scientists say that the Sun’s activity is on an escalating trajectory, outside the
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Brain damage caused by blocked blood vessels may be treatable using injections of stem cells, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and the University of Southern California. The results could one day help patients who have experienced some forms of stroke recover lost functions. Using mice with stroke-induced brain damage,
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Earth is subjected to a constant cosmic rain of material. The vast majority of it is tiny micrometeorites that burn up in the atmosphere, up to 100 tons per day by some estimates. But sometimes, much larger objects strike Earth. The most notable is probably the Chicxulub impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs and left a massive crater, now
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An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us not to underestimate animal intelligence. A study published in 2021 presented cuttlefish with a new version of the “marshmallow test”, and the results showed there’s more going on in their strange little brains than we ever suspected. Watch the video below for
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78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep. The catastrophic impact created a fractured hydrothermal system in the shattered bedrock under the crater. There’s evidence from other impact structures that in the aftermath of a collision, life colonized the
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A black hole 1 billion times the Sun’s mass sits at the center of this galactic web. Key Takeaways _________ A Cosmic Web Ensnaring Six Galaxies Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered six galaxies clustered around a supermassive black hole in the early universe. These galaxies, collectively known as
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Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is shrinking rapidly, the floating glaciers known as ice shelves are melting faster, the ice sheets carpeting the continent are approaching tipping points and vital ocean
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A new discovery has just brought the total number of Uranus’s known moons to 29. In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen before, not even in data from the Voyager 2 probe that flew past Uranus at a close distance in 1986.
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