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Gigantic meteorite impact in Ukraine dated to 65 million years ago
Everyone’s familiar with the demise of the dinosaurs thanks to a massive asteroid that slammed into…
Challenger crew likely survived explosion before tragic plunge to Earth, book claims
Details about one of the US space program’s darkest moments are revealed in “The Burning Blue:…
Plasma wind tunnel annihilates satellite model in atmospheric reentry test
Satellite parts that melt away during reentry reduce the risk of space debris impacts on Earth.…
Earth’s fifth ocean just confirmed
The earth has finally attained popular recognition for its fifth ocean. A decision by the national…
A Single Telescope Has Detected Hundreds of Mysterious Radio Signals From Space
In just its first year of operations, a Canadian radio telescope has quadrupled the number of…
Line of galaxies is so big it breaks our understanding of the universe
An arc of galaxies stretching for 3.3 billion light years seems to contradict a core tenet…
Scientists Discover Exactly How COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc on Human Lungs
New structure shows how virus envelope protein hijacks cell-junction protein and promotes viral spread; findings could…
Space Debris Has Hit And Damaged The International Space Station
The inevitable has occurred. A piece of space debris too small to be tracked has hit…
The best dark matter map to date raises questions about the universe | Engadget
Scientists have released the most precise map of dark matter to date, but it only serves…
Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’
The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the…
Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma
Sailing through the smooth waters of vacuum, a photon of light moves at around 300 thousand…
An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help
An artificial intelligence has disproved five mathematical conjectures, despite not being equipped with any information about…
What if The Heart of The Milky Way Isn’t Actually a Black Hole Like We Thought?
We sort-of take it for granted that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of…
Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing…
“Big Surprise!” – Heavy Metal Vapors Unexpectedly Found in Comets Throughout Our Solar System – and Beyond
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large…
AI searched for single-atom-alloy catalysts, found 200 promising candidates
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Germany have presented a new search algorithm for…
Newly Discovered Quasicrystal – “Magnificent in Its Complexity” – Was Created by the First Nuclear Explosion at Trinity Site
Discovery of new material could someday aid in nuclear nonproliferation. A newly discovered quasicrystal that was…
Emergency oxygen enemas could help us “breathe” through our intestines
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that some mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines. The…
New Evidence for Controversial Theory That the Electron Is Composed of Two Particles
New Evidence for Electron’s Dual Nature Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid Results from a Princeton-led…