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The deepest 'blue hole' on Earth is so deep that scientists still haven't found the bottom

Researchers have found a blue hole they say is the deepest in the world — and they’ve yet to find where it bottoms out. The formation is the Taam...

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There's a mysterious ecosystem underneath the driest desert on Earth

The Atacama Desert — an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth — is...

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The 10 best images of Jupiter and its moons from NASA's Juno probe

Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system’s neighborhood, one that NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been visiting...

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Scientists need a scary new color because the world keeps getting hotter

On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better...

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Check out this cool lava lake on one of Jupiter's moons

Two recent flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed a couple of stunning surprises: a remarkably steep mountain and islands...

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Check out this lava tube where humans sheltered for thousands of years

Three needs are famously fundamental to survival: food, water, and shelter. According to new research, ancient humans had at least two of those three...

18.04.2024 3

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Fool's gold could actually be worth money now. Here's why

Pyrite, the yellow metal known as fool’s gold, has another trick up its sleeve: it can contain lithium, a crucial element in the world’s quest for...

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Where do gold and platinum come from? The mystery deepens after a huge cosmic explosion

In October 2022, an extremely bright flash caught the attention of the Gemini South telescope in Chile. It was quickly determined to be the brightest...

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Science has given us an image of an electron crystal for the first time

Electrons are typically seen flitting around their atoms, but a team of physicists has now imaged the particles in a very different state: nestled...

12.04.2024 6

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The best wildlife photos of the year

The natural world is full of wonder. Life thrives in its every corner, from the abyssal depths of the oceans to the loftiest heights above Earth’s...

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Archaeologists found an ancient henge hidden in England

Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient...

09.04.2024 8

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A dead star and a black hole may have collided

A leading gravitational wave observatory recently detected ripples in spacetime that scientists say came from the collision of a dead, superdense...

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The newest kind of fusion reactor has permanent magnets and was built at a government lab

A team of physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built a twisting fusion reactor known as a stellarator that uses permanent...

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Scientists just finished building the biggest digital camera ever made

Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera stands as the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and will serve...

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Scientists found a weird little micro 'galaxy' orbiting the Milky Way

A collection of stars 30,000 light-years away is the faintest and lowest-mass Milky Way satellite ever found, according to the group of scientists who...

04.04.2024 10

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Now NASA has to figure out how to tell time on the Moon

NASA and its international partners have big plans when it comes to the Moon — plans that will require the careful synching of Earth-based clocks...

03.04.2024 9

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Neutron stars spit out jets that move insanely fast, scientists say

The dense remains of massive stars generate powerful jets of gas and dust that move hundreds of millions of miles per hour, according to research...

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The wildest cave systems on Earth

Shelters of our ancestors, galleries for our artwork, hiding places for our treasures, portals to the underworld. Caves have meant many things for...

01.04.2024 6

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An epic supernova might have given birth to a black hole and astronomers can't look away

A team of astronomers recently captured a series of images of a distant star as it went supernova, providing a remarkable play-by-play of stellar...

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Apparently ancient humans made drawings next to dinosaur footprints

Ancient South Americans were apparently inspired by fossilized dinosaur tracks in what is now eastern Brazil, where they cut figures into the rock,...

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Check out the magnetic field of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in this new image

A new image of our galaxy’s central black hole reveals the magnetic field surrounding the object in polarized light. The image reveals how gas and...

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Watch the Concorde's environmentally friendly offspring take its first flight

Private aerospace company Boom Supersonic got its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft in the air and back down again last week, completing the carbon fiber...

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The biggest unsolved mysteries in the universe

The universe is a deeply vexing place. Every breakthrough we make in our understanding of it begets more mysteries about how all this (gestures...

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Single grains of ice in space contain signs of life

Icy moons like Europa and Enceladus are exciting venues for the prospect of life beyond Earth, because they are thought to contain oceans of water...

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There might be something called 'super diamonds' in space, a supercomputer says

Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring material on Earth, but a supercomputer just modeled stuff that’s even harder. Called a...

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A physicist wants to change your perspective about our place in the universe

Pondering the scale of the cosmos can feel as if you’re peering over the edge of the brink. It can be daunting enough to make you want to flee to...

19.03.2024 5

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Mars has a giant volcano just ‘hiding in plain sight’

A giant volcano has been found in Mars’ Tharsis plateau, making it the fourth known volcano in the region. Heavily eroded, the 29,600-foot...

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Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record

A UK-based nuclear fusion collaboration just produced a record amount of energy, a refreshing dose of good news in humankind’s quest for cleaner...

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The US cities that researchers say will shrink — and the ones that will grow

Many places in the Midwest and northern United States could shrink drastically by the turn of the century, according to a new study based on five...

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