The world’s first view of Earth from the moon, taken 59 years ago โ Space photo of the week
“true” fetchpriority=”high”> The world’s very first view of Earth, taken by a spacecraft from the area of the moon, was caught Aug. 23, 1966. ( Image credit: NASA ) FAST…
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The geology that holds up the Himalayas is not what we thought, scientists discover
The Himalayas are the world’s greatest range of mountains and home to Mount Everest. (Image credit: Pakawat Thongcharoen/Getty Images) Researchers might have simply fallen a 100-year-old theory about what holds…
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We finally have an idea of how the lifetime supply of eggs develops in primates
This image reveals an area through a rhesus macaque ovary, with the egg cells in green. The little, green circles at the external edge(25 to 30 of them in this…
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How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists
Illustration of a skull, seen from the left side, revealing the primary craniometric points. (Image credit: Frederick Henry Gerrish(1845-1920), Public domain, by means of Wikimedia Commons) The current publication of…
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5 common mistakes beginner astrophotographers make โ and how to avoid them
(Image credit: Getty Images ) Astrophotography has a practice of humbling even the most positive professional photographers. What appears like a best scene to the eye frequently develops into blurred…
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NASA telescope spotted rare interstellar comet 2 months before it was officially ‘discovered’
Hubble picture of 3I/ATLAS caught in late July. (Image credit: NASA/ESA ) Among the benefits of having a lot of telescopes enjoying big parts of the sky is that, if…
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Texas suit alleging anti-coal โcartelโ of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG
It’s a carefully seen test of whether business alliances on environment efforts breach antitrust laws. This post initially appeared on Inside Climate News, a not-for-profit, non-partisan wire service that covers…
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Paleontologist Discovers First Known Silurian Horseshoe Crab
Horseshoe crabs are an ancient family tree with an evolutionary history extending back 450 million years (Ordovician duration) and are typically thought about to be examples of ‘living fossils.’ A…
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Webb Spots Torus of Cosmic Dust and Organics in Butterfly Nebula
With the aid of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have actually made a huge leap forward in the understanding of how the raw product of rocky worlds comes…
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Do you trust AI?
(Image credit: Qi Yang by means of Getty Images) Expert system(AI) is no longer a futuristic principle– it’s here. From chatbots that carry out day-to-day jobs to big algorithms efficient…
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