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Mysterious Signals Keep Coming From Space. Scientists May Finally Know Why

Bull's-eye! Enormous 'bow and arrow' galaxy is unlike anything radio astronomers have ever seen

The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its cosmic survey.

Why scientists fear we're missing evidence of extraterrestrial life

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CERN shuts down Large Hadron Collider until 2030, upgrading the atom smasher to its most powerful form yet

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Scientists figured out how to shrink huge ultrafast lasers so they fit on a tiny chip -‪ the 'holy grail' of the field‬

Computer scientists develop a new AI tool that rivals AlphaFold 3 in mapping RNA

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Earth's inner core may have quietly reversed course: after decades of spinning slightly faster than the surface, seismic waves from repeating earthquakes show it slowed around 2010 and began drifting backward relative to the rest of the planet.

Great Barrier Reef drilling reveals repeated collapse, regrowth and migration since last ice age

Deadly Venezuela earthquakes raise concern in tremor-prone California

What science tells us about the algae bloom in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

66 billion trees have been planted in China's Great Green Wall - and they appear to be growing faster than natural forests

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Scientists Find Hidden 'Focus Switch' in The Brain - And It May Hold Clues to ADHD

Scientists may have finally found how Alzheimer's spreads through the brain

Light-activated compound kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria by turning its own defense enzyme against it

In a series of experiments, the team found that people felt significantly more emotionally "moved" by abstract paintings when the images spontaneously triggered autobiographical memories from their lives. The work brings together psychology and philosophy to better understand how people experience art.

Shadowy tendrils of ancient lava have scarred a dark volcano next to a 'skull' in the Sahara

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A fossil that has been sitting in a drawer for 40 years has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur ever retrieved from Antarctica.

17-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil in Egypt Could Change What We Know About Human Origins

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How a tiny Caribbean island - St. Eustatius - made American independence possible

Muslims were part of America's story long before the republic began

500 years ago, the first New Testament in English was published – and stirred up a hornet’s nes

NCIS: Origins: Mark Harmon Returning Onscreen for Major Role in Season 3

Asteroid Day was co-founded by Stephen Hawking, filmmaker Grigorij Richters, B612 Foundation President, Danica Remy, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Brian May, Queen guitarist and astrophysicist. Over 200 astronauts, scientists, technologists and artists, including Richard Dawkins, Bill Nye, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, co-signed the Asteroid Day Declaration.

Asteroid Day is an annual global event which is held on the anniversary of the Siberian Tunguska Event the most harmful known asteroid-related event on Earth in recent history when an asteroid leveled approximately 830 square miles (2,150 square kilometres ) of forest in Siberia.

Today climate change has made Siberia a very different place than it was in 1908 at the time of the Tunguska Event. Summer temperatures reach record-breaking highs. Wildfires are left unchecked because the Russian military units that usually deal with them have been relocated to Ukraine. As we known wildfires not only change the climate of an area but have global implications.

Beneath the rapidly melting permafrost - discoveries have been made from the tiniest of microbes to fossils of ancient mammoths. One has to wonder if alien artifacts have been found and kept secret.

The Tunguska Event was a large explosion that occurred near the Tunguska River in Russia, on the morning of June 30, 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened 2,000 square kilometres (770 square miles) of forest yet caused no known human casualties. The explosion is generally attributed to the air burst of a meteor or asteroid though some people postulate it was another UFO crash.

The Tunguska Event is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts occurred in prehistoric times. The object is thought to have disintegrated at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometres (3 to 6 miles) rather than to have hit the surface of the earth which might explain why no impact crater has been found.

Social Media has redefined how people interact, communicate, and share with family, friends, and the world. One way or another most people engage in some form of social media to learn, network, or to be entertained.

James Webb uncovers exotic salt clouds on a mysterious pink world

NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission

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Injectable silk-kudzu hydrogel achieves complete wound closure in laboratory tests

New electrocatalyst helps turn polluted water into fertilizer and polymers

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Physicists create a strange new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea

Physicists Discover a Fundamental Limit to Electrical Resistance

Physicists Solve a Quantum-Only Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop

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Physicists create a strange new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea

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There's a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Crystals of Gold Into The Atmosphere

India Added 5.2 Million Acres of Woodland in Just 10 Years

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Scientists Discover Ultrasound May Stop Arthritis Before It Starts

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit

mRNA Vaccine Shrinks Deadly Childhood Cancer Tumors by 70%

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Scientists Discover the Brain Can Rewire Itself To Truly Multitask

Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness

These fat-filled brain cells may be making multiple sclerosis worse

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Scientists Unlock Hidden DNA From 1,300-Year-Old Manuscript

Mummified dogs reveal Tiwanaku people buried companions beside homes long before they became status symbols

World's Only Known Homo Naledi Burial Site May Be Entirely Female

The oldest evidence of mourning rituals reveals Paleolithic communities grieved like we do

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Lost megalodon vertebrae resurface, confirming 80-foot size estimate

Megalodon Fossil Lost For Decades Confirms The Monster's Terrifying Size

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Video: Britney Spears' Sons Sean Preston and Jayden James Make Rare Runway Debut at Paris Fashion Week

Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into separate company

Breaking down the World Cup knockout bracket: Who has the toughest path?

Serena Williams took aim at tennis' anti-doping system on Sunday ahead of her Wimbledon return, calling the system unprofessional and unreasonable

As nation turns 250, many Americans say the Stars and Stripes is now a red flag

Frustration and fading hopes in Venezuela with thousands still missing after twin quakes

Bill Maher accepts Twain humor prize as the Kennedy Center navigates Trump-era upheaval

The Full Strawberry Moon can be 'fruitful' and rosy in its own way. At the halfway point of the year - it allows you to look back at the first six months and think about how your destiny manifested to date. Adding Mercury Retrograde to the equation always complicates matters. Be vigilant. On the relationship front - the convergence of a Full Moon and Mercury Retrograde says - if you are ending something don't go back with that person. Let it go. On any front ... if you're looking for your next step, always remember that whatever you do in life is guided by the 'stars' and aligned with the simulation of your reality.

In 2025 Nicole Scherzinger won a Tony Award for her performance as Norma Desmond in the Broadway revival of "Sunset Blvd". An emotional Scherzinger said in her acceptance speech. "The award is a testament that love always wins."