Spotify-like AI helps discover never-before-seen supernova as greedy star attempts to eat a black hole
An artist’s impression of the occasions leading up to supernova SN 2023zkd, which likely happened when a star tried to swallow a neighboring great void. Here, the star’s shape is…
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DNA has an expiration date. But proteins are revealing secrets about our ancient ancestors we never thought possible.
DNA breaks down gradually. ( Image credit: Alamy) The minute an animal passes away, its DNA starts to break down. Half of it breaks down every 521 years typically. By…
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A real-life Pandora? Newfound ‘disappearing’ planet in our neighboring star system could have a habitable moon, just like the Avatar movies
Scientists have actually hypothesized that the prospective gas giant just recently identified around Alpha Centauri A might have a habitable moon, comparable to Pandora from the “Avatar” movies. ( Image…
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Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids
“Your youthful form is a work of art” Meta drops AI guidelines letting chatbots create innuendo and proclaim love to kids. After what was perhaps Meta’s most significant purge of…
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Incan numerical recordkeeping system may have been widely used
Ladies in STEM: Inca Edition In the late 1500s, a couple of years after the khipu in this current research study was made, an Indigenous chronicler called Guaman Poma de…
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Would you board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri?
Imagine leaving Earth permanently and boarding a spaceship developed to bring you and countless others on a one-way journey to the nearby galaxy, Alpha Centauri — a journey that might…
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Ice discs slingshot across a metal surface all on their own
VA Tech experiment was motivated by Death Valley’s mystical “sailing stones” at Racetrack Playa. College student Jack Tapocik establishes ice on a crafted surface area in the VA Tech laboratory…
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Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere
Photophoresis can create a little bit of lift with no moving parts. Many people would acknowledge the gadget in the image above, although they most likely would not understand it…
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Ancient predatory whale with big eyes and razor-sharp teeth was ‘deceptively cute’
The recently explained Janjucetus dullardi is understood from juvenile remains. This illustration portrays a J. dullardi calf with its mom. (Image credit: Artwork by Ruairidh Duncan. Source: Museums Victoria)Researchers have…
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Colossal black hole 36 billion times the mass of our sun is one of the largest ever seen in the universe
A view of The Cosmic Horseshoe and its gravitational lens, in which an ultramassive great void seems prowling. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) The huge “Cosmic Horseshoe” galaxy system most likely hosts…
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