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Species of Deep Sea Bug The Size of a Small Dog Named For Star Wars Villain Nature 8 hours ago
It's Official: Global Survey Confirms The World Trusts Scientists
1 day ago · Public trust in scientists is vital. It can help us with personal decisions on matters like health and provide evidence-based policymaking to assist governments with crises such as the COVID pandemic or climate change. In a survey of 71,922 people across 68 …
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Species of Deep Sea Bug The Size of a Small Dog Named For Star Wars Villain Nature 13 hours ago
Even NASA Can't Explain The Alarming Surge in Global
Dec 20, 2024 · The world has been getting hotter for decades but a sudden and extraordinary surge in heat has sent the climate deeper into uncharted territory – and scientists are still trying to figure out why.
Astronomers Discover Slow-Spinning Radio Source That 'Shouldn't …
Jan 16, 2025 · Standard theory says that once a neutron star's spin slows beyond a certain point (about one rotation per minute), it should stop emitting radio pulses altogether. Yet here is ASKAP J1839-0756, lighting up the cosmos at a leisurely pace of one rotation every 6.5 hours. The pulse detected by the MeerKAT telescope at two different centre frequencies is shown here.
The Risk of Cancer Fades as We Get Older, And We May
Dec 22, 2024 · Aging brings two opposing trends in cancer risk: first, the risk climbs in our 60s and 70s, as decades of genetic mutations build up in our bodies. But then, past the age of around 80, the risk drops again – and a new study may explain a key reason why.
Scientists Confirm The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast
1 day ago · Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument had been used in a previous study to measure the relationship between the stretching of space and precise distance to the Coma cluster, a concentration of more than 1,000 known galaxies estimated to be roughly 320 million light-years away.. Knowing the precise distance between here and the Coma cluster (pictured above) confirms measures of the ...
Supermassive Black Hole Caught Doing Something Never Seen …
2 days ago · The observations were collected using JWST's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI); the Submillimeter Array jointly operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Academia Sinica; NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory; and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, a gamma-ray observatory riding the International Space Station.
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