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Scientists have finally spotted the source of a weird, upside-down kind of lightning called a blue jet.
In the desert, an ass hole is a welcome sight for many parched creatures.
Finding such a huge supermassive black hole so early in the universe’s history challenges astronomers’ understanding of how these cosmic beasts first formed.
This robot can do push-ups. It even 'sweats' to keep the motors of its muscles cool. ow.ly/tChR30hnO1e
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Happy 76th birthday to the world's most famous living physicist, Stephen Hawking!
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
Once people know how little the U.S. spends on science, they support more federal funding for it:
The intense gravitational pull of a black hole bends the light around it. #blackholeweek sciencenews.org/article/nasa-n
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A woman buried 9,000 years ago with her hunting toolkit is shedding new light on gender roles.
102 years ago today, mathematician Emmy Noether, who worked without pay because she was a woman, unveiled two theorems. Physics hasn't been the same since.
Stephen Hawking would have turned 77 today. He was a black hole whisperer who divined the secrets of the universe’s most inscrutable objects, left a legacy of cosmological puzzles sparked by his work, and inspired a generation of scientists.
#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, then a graduate student, discovered pulsars. The discovery garnered a Nobel Prize just six years after it was announced in 1968 — but Burnell's supervisor got the prize instead of her. #PulsarWeek
For the first time, scientists have made 2-deoxyribose, the sugar that makes up the backbone of DNA, under cosmic conditions in the lab by blasting ice with radiation. ow.ly/AUEd30n2PAJ
Here's the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope:
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Gravitational wave detectors have already spotted mysterious black holes. But they might detect something even stranger: wormholes.
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Richard Feynman was one of the last great physicist celebrities, universally acknowledged as a genius who stood out even from other geniuses.
Low-ranking male Japanese macaques masturbate more frequently than dominant males to ensure their sperm are fresh and healthy when they get the rare chance to mate.
Toddlers play longer and more creatively with toys when there are fewer toys around, researchers report.
For the first time, astronomers have found molecular oxygen — the same gas humans breathe — in a galaxy outside the Milky Way.
Two bats with swathes of orange fur caught at an old mining tunnel in western Africa turn out to be a new species.
It amounts to 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 particles of light or photons.
Black holes don't look like anything depicted here. But thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, we're about to find out what they actually look like. youtube.com/watch?v=7wizhr
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Gravitational wave detectors have already spotted mysterious black holes. But they might detect something even stranger: wormholes.
A protein found in robins’ retinas showed sensitivity to magnetic fields, which brings us a step closer to understanding birds’ magnetic compasses.
Denisovans reached what’s now called “the roof of the world” at least 160,000 years ago. Humans didn't settle there until about 40,000 years ago. ow.ly/hEHq30oBsAP
When black holes evaporate, where does the trapped information go? Superconductors may help us find out.
Koko, the gorilla famous for using sign language, died at the age of 46. Here's a look at our feature on Koko from way back in 1978. ow.ly/Mmk930kBlOJ
Scientists have engineered tumor cells to secrete a protein that triggers a death switch in other tumor cells they find. #WorldCancerDay
MRI study shows meaning and intonation are interpreted separately in dog brains: ow.ly/vFjg303M2vL
A hexagon over Saturn’s north pole was strange enough. Now a second one has appeared right on top of it.
If confirmed, it would be the first solid detection of this source of gravitational waves. It’s a type of cataclysm never before spotted.
Electrons in the fractal inhabited not 3 dimensions, but 1.58 dimensions.
The second space rock seen visiting our solar system from another star is proving just how bizarre the first known interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, really was.
A weird material found in ultradense dead stars is 10 billion times as strong as steel.
Among patients who have recovered from COVID-19 in China comes the first evidence that some may suffer long-term lung damage from the disease.
“It’s been my general observation that if an experienced Inuit hunter tells you that he’s seen something, it’s worth listening to and very likely to be correct.”
NASA’s mesmerizing new black hole visualizations showcase how gravity warps light. #BlackHoleWeek sciencenews.org/article/nasa-n
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Albert Einstein, born on this day 140 years ago, opened humankind’s eyes to the universe.
Kennedy Space Center is home to a permanent exhibit honoring NASA's lost astronauts, including the Challenger crew. ow.ly/nfrf308qK4q
This marks the first time scientists have found an oxygen-using organism with fully functional mitochondria without mitochondrial DNA. ow.ly/AScl30owKLC
103 years ago today, mathematician Emmy Noether, who worked without pay because she was a woman, unveiled two theorems. Physics hasn't been the same since. (From 2018)
She's one of the most important people in the history of physics. Einstein called her a “creative mathematical genius.” She worked without pay because she was a woman. #WomenInScience
The “cerebellum has more than half of the neurons in your entire brain. It never made sense that the only thing it confines itself to do is motor coordination.”
The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full: ow.ly/WvirR
In Pennsylvania, scientists spotted a rare half-male, half female songbird. “It was spectacular.” #NationalBirdDay
Hundreds of species, including this sea star, hitched a ride from Japan to America after the 2011 tsunami. ow.ly/rJ7430fv9Ak
Sleep may have originated underwater 450 million years ago. ow.ly/34Fp50uXUho
In Pennsylvania, scientists spotted a rare half-male, half female songbird.
“It was spectacular.”
Don’t just hug trees. Plant them. A big global surge in forest size could buy time to fight climate change.
Quantum physics is already pretty complicated. But this is even trickier than usual.
Paranormal as it sounds, humans seem to be tuned into Earth’s magnetic aura.
Researchers have discovered a new reptilian species from 240 million years ago.
You probably know Pi Day is 3/14. Well, today is 6/28, or Tau Day, and it deserves to be a holiday we all celebrate — because "pi is wrong."
“Wherever you introduce measles vaccination, you always reduce childhood mortality. Always.”
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in phyiscs has been awarded: one half to Roger Penrose and the other half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
Existing antidepressant drugs don’t work well for an estimated 30 to 50 percent of the people who try them; when they do work, the effects can take weeks to kick in. Psilocybin might be a powerful alternative.
Neuroscientists are a step closer to unraveling the mystery of consciousness. ow.ly/O8AC30nDhkB
“We haven’t seen an entire brain like this. It’s definitely unprecedented.”
Scientists are still trying to understand how the brain-eating amoeba kills its victims.
Three scientists who cemented the reality of black holes have been jointly awarded the #NobelPrize in physics.
K2 18b may be the first exoplanet found to support liquid water, thought to be an essential ingredient for life.
"It is a feeling like you’ve discovered some kind of secret of nature." #GravitationalWaves ow.ly/jxSg30fUqEs
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Scientists are inching closer to an audacious goal: A device implanted in the brains of severely depressed people to detect a looming crisis coming on and zap the brain out of it. It sounds farfetched, and it is. #longreads
The cosmos doesn’t care whether you’re looking up or down, left or right.
Einstein called her a “creative mathematical genius.” She's one of the most important people in the history of physics. She worked without pay because she was a woman. #IWD2021
Pluto’s frozen heart might be depressed from the weight of so much ice. ow.ly/9uYA306FSai #dwarfplanetproblems
Protons are made up of quarks. But only 9 percent of their mass comes from quarks. ow.ly/FXyF30mKOi8
Earth’s inner core may have solidified around 565 million years ago — just in time to not only save the planet’s protective magnetic field from imminent collapse, but also kick start it into its current, powerful phase.
Tardigrades are practically unkillable. They can go years without food or water, withstand freezing and scalding temperatures, and endure the vacuum of outer space and blistering radiation.
After almost two years of rendering the data, scientists are gearing up to release the first images of a black hole.
A new study hints that humans have magnetoreception abilities, similar to some other animals.
Training people in these techniques could help build a more general resilience to disinformation, whether related to climate, vaccines or COVID-19. sciencenews.org/article/climat
The first direct evidence of a phase of matter known as a pair-density wave helps reveal the physics that underlies mysterious high-temperature superconductors.
Richard Feynman was never satisfied to simply know the answer to a problem; he had to puzzle the problem out for himself.
Beavers aren’t the annoying, destructive rodents you think they are. They’re amazing ecosystem engineers.
