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Star torn apart by black hole 30,000 light yrs from galaxy centre
Researchers discovered an ultrabright flare from a tidal disruption event (TDE), where a star was ripped apart by a wandering supermassive black hole more…
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Female Woolly Mammoths Were Preferred Targets for Ice Age Hunters
Getting your audio player ready… Ice Age hunters faced a large, dangerous animal, the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), to obtain food to survive in…
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Scientists complete Japanese rice fish genome after two decades, unlocking hidden DNA
After nearly two decades of research, scientists in Japan have completed the genetic blueprint of the Japanese rice fish, or medaka, filling in the…
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Jupiter’s moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean — but can we get to them?
NASA’s Europa Clipper is currently on a 1.8-billion-mile journey to Jupiter, tasked with assessing whether the icy moon of its namesake, Europa, could support…
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New Medicine: 200 years ago one of Earth’s oldest plant chemicals was isolated but researchers now find ways to make new potential medicines with two poisonous flowers
Nearly two centuries after scientists first isolated one of the most chemically complicated substances produced by plants, researchers are uncovering a new way to…
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Chinese rocket scientists have modelled the most effective way to nuke a doomsday asteroid, and it is not a blast at the surface: first drill a hole, then bury the bomb about thirty metres down, which their simulations say more than triples the deflection
If an asteroid large enough to end a city, or worse, were ever found on a collision course with too little time to nudge…
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Ancient Arctic carbon is pouring into the sea, but the seabed captures most of it
The Arctic’s frozen ground contains enormous stores of organic carbon. As permafrost thaws and coastlines erode, some of that carbon is carried into the…
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Ensemble deep learning for optimizing user immersion and engagement in virtual reality
Virtual Reality (VR) is transforming various domains by providing immersive experiences, but a significant barrier still exists in the inability to recognize user immersion…
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Rubin Gets a Closer Look at the COSMOS Field, Revealing More Than 650,000 Galaxies in One Image
A new image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captures a well-documented patch of the universe in exceptional depth, revealing thousands of galaxies and…