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Space

The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a horde of lightweights

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most massive and luminous globular star cluster, a new study finds. …

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Space

A distant quasar may be zapping all galaxies around itself

August 21, 2024January 10, 2025 - by admin - Leave a Comment

One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of …

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Space

Human spaceflight’s new era is fraught with medical and ethical questions

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

They say that going to space changes you. Often, what’s being referenced is a shift in mindset, a renewed sense of perspective that comes from seeing our world from above, …

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A split illustration shows a thorium nucleus alongside a clock.
Physics

Physicists take a major step toward making a nuclear clock

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

The time is nigh for nuclear clocks.  In a first, scientists have used a tabletop laser to bump an atomic nucleus into a higher energy state. It’s a feat that …

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Space

50 years ago, the sun’s influence on Earth’s lightning was revealed

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

Lightning and the sun — Science News, June 22, 1974 The latest addition to the growing list of meteorological phenomena which have been linked with solar activity is lightning…. Using …

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A woman is pictured in front of three overlapping circles, representing the three stars of an alien star system, in an image from the Netflix show "3 Body Problem."
Physics

Separating science fact from fiction in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ 

August 21, 2024January 13, 2025 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  The orbits of a trio of stars can be so chaotic that it’s impossible to precisely calculate the stars’ future trajectories. That’s the real science behind the name of …

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Genetics

Landfills belch toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into the air

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

What’s dumped into a landfill is supposed to stay there, but a new study finds that toxic “forever chemicals” are wafting from the waste into the air. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl …

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Environment

How to stay healthy during the COVID-19 summertime surge

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising. “There’s clearly a bump,” says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen …

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Space

Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first time

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728 is waking up. Over the past four years, astronomers have been able to watch the supermassive black hole in SDSS1335+0728’s center …

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An illustration of atoms in an altermagnet shows a grid of alternating blue and purple shapes, rotated with respect to one another.
Physics

Newfound ‘altermagnets’ shatter the magnetic status quo 

August 21, 2024 - by admin - Leave a Comment

For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic material. Crack open a physics textbook and you may read that scientists classify …

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