China Turns on its Artificial Sun—Here’s What You Need to Know
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China’s artificial sun has achieved new records. EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak), famously known as China’s artificial sun, has been…
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Magnetic Fields Play Huge Role in the Eclipsing Mechanism of Black Widow Pulsars
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Astronomers using the FAST radio telescope saw a rare phenomenon in the PSR J1720-0533 binary system with a black widow…
A Gargantuan Object Smashed Into Pluto Helping Carve Its Hearth-Shaped Feature
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Scientists have been studying Pluto’s ‘heart’ and focused their research on a particular region – Sputnik Planitia. Billions of years…
Researchers Find Fish Type That Can Differentiate Numbers and Count
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Archerfish, known for their ability to knock insects out with a stream of water, are adept at judging the relative…
First ‘Quantum Entangled’ Animal in History is a Frozen Tardigrade
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Scientists from several countries have reported the results of an experiment in which they used a tardigrade to change the…
Scientists Spot Rare, Giant Phantom Jellyfish With 33-Feet-Long Mouth-Arms
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American biologists have filmed a giant deep-sea phantom jellyfish of the Stygiomedusa gigantea genus. The diameter of the bell of…
Scientists Create Human Embryos From Stem Cells
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A group of embryologists took another step in modeling early human development: they managed not only to create an embryo…
Living Robots That Can Reproduce Successfully Built in a Lab–10 Things We Know
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American biologists have collected clusters from frog stem cells that are capable of almost endless self-copying. A cluster in the…
Scientists Identify Mysterious New Mineral Deep Inside Earth
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American geologists have discovered a new mineral called davemaoite inside a diamond. In an article published in the journal Science,…
Scientist Warns Our Planet Could Rebel Against Us And Kill Off Humans
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James Lovelock, who turned 102 in 2021, has come forward with new predictions about our future. Lovelock is a British independent…
Harvard Astronomer Says Our Universe Could be an Alien Lab Experiment
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Avi Loeb is a physicist who never disappoints with his controversial theories about extraterrestrials. Harvard’s former chair of astronomy recently…
Rare Tardigrade Specimen Found Trapped in 16 Million-Year-Old Amber
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Scientists have described a new species of tardigrades – Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus: this is the only known “water bear” that lived…
Super-Earths Reveal Clues to Evolution of “Hot” Atmospheres
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Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of two new exoplanets with ultrashort orbital periods. Both exoplanets belong to the class of…
In 500 Years Earth Could Turn Into an “Alien World”
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An international team of climatologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and ecologists has stated that if the average temperature doesn’t stop rising until…
Parts of Missing Cosmic Matter Found
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An international research team has captured images of the previously elusive galactic wind for the first time. This unique observation…
99-Million-Year-Old Spider-Mom Preserved in Amber
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Paleontologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of spiders caring for offspring. In one sample of Burmese amber, about 99 million…
Supernova Seen by 12th Century Chinese Astronomers Identified in Deep Space
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Astronomers have found a supernova remnant that was noticed in the sky back in 1181 by Chinese and Japanese observers….
Harvard Geneticist Raises Funds to Bring Mammoths Back to Life
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Biologist George Church and entrepreneur Ben Lamm announced the creation of Colossal, a company that will be engaged in the…
Concrete Made of Astronaut Blood Could Help Build Martian Colonies
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Protein from astronaut blood can, in combination with urea and lunar or Martian regolith, form the AstroCrete biocomposite material that…
Perseverance Rover Finds Mars Likely Habitable in Ancient Past
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NASA has revealed the first results of the analysis of two Martian rock samples taken by the Perseverance rover earlier…
Oldest Cavities In Mammals Found
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Canadian paleontologists have discovered the oldest cavities in mammals. After analyzing the remains of 1,030 primitive primates known as Microsyops…
ESO Snaps Photographs of Strange-Looking “Dog-Bone” Asteroid
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The VLT has captured the most detailed images to date of the unusual trinary asteroid system Kleopatra, whose main body…