[CNN] There are now more than 5,000 confirmed planets beyond our solar system, according to NASA. The latest addition of 65 exoplanets to the NASA Exoplanet Archive contributed to the scientific milestone marked on Monday. This archive is the home to exoplanet discoveries from peer-reviewed scientific papers that have been […]
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[LiveScience, Getty] The rocket is expected to hit our lunar companion at 5,771 mph (9,288 km/h). A SpaceX rocket that launched nearly seven years ago is now on course to crash into the moon, astronomers have predicted.Advertisement The Falcon 9 booster was launched in February 2015 as part of a mission […]
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[USA Today] The whitest paint in the world has been created in a lab at Purdue University, a paint so white that it could eventually reduce or even eliminate the need for air conditioning, scientists say. The paint has now made it into the Guinness World Records book as the whitest ever […]
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[Forbes, NASA] NASA’s Sea Level Change Team has created a sea level projection tool based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that visualizes the impacts of future sea level rise on coastlines and communities. More than 600 million people (around 10 percent of the world’s population) live in coastal […]
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[CNET, Chuang Zhao] The story of our species may run through a war-time construction project back to the wild and woolly steppes of Asia where Dragon people once roamed. One of the key pieces to the puzzle of our long narrative arc as a human species may have been hiding […]
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[Science Alert, Wikimedia Commons] The mineral pyrite was historically nicknamed fool’s gold because of its deceptive resemblance to the precious metal. The term was often used during the California gold rush in the 1840s because inexperienced prospectors would claim discoveries of gold, but in reality it would be pyrite, composed of worthless […]
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[Forbes, Wikimedia Commons] It’s you and me, Kepler−442b. What does it take for an alien exoplanet to host life as we know it? A lot, as it turns out. Despite a paper last year claiming that there may be 300 million planets in our galaxy that are “potentially habitable,” new research published in the Monthly Notices […]
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[Daily Mail] Year 2021 is set to fly by, prompting scientists to call for the addition of a ‘negative leap second’ Atomic clocks accurately record how long every day is at millisecond level Since invention in 1970s the days have been slightly longer than 24 hours But since mid-2020 the Earth’s spin […]
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[Wired, Getty Images] On a “body farm,” researchers are exploring whether the nutrients from human cadavers can change the look of plants, which authorities might use to locate missing persons. SINCE 1980, THE University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center has plumbed the depths of the most macabre of sciences: the decomposition of human […]
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[Science Alert, iStock] Plants have a seemingly effortless skill – turning sunlight into energy – and scientists have been working to artificially emulate this photosynthesis process. The ultimate benefits for renewable energy could be huge – and a new approach based on ‘photosheets’ could be the most promising attempt we’ve seen so far. The […]
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