Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sparked international excitement when it unveiled the first image…
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Late cretaceous dinosaur-dominated ecosystem
A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ecosystems were structured, how dinosaurs and…
Increasingly mobile sea ice risks polluting Arctic neighbors
The movement of sea ice between Arctic countries is expected to significantly increase this century, raising…
Frozen-planet states in exotic helium atoms
Exotic subatomic particles that are like ‘normal’ particles apart from one, opposite, property—such as the positron,…
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled moon, dies at 88
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates…
Quake rattles Salt Lake City, damages Mormon temple
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Salt Lake City in the US state of Utah on Wednesday,…
New telescope design could capture distant celestial objects with unprecedented detail
Researchers have designed a new camera that could allow hypertelescopes to image multiple stars at once.…
Model simulator helps researchers map complex physics phenomena
To understand the behavior of quantum particles, imagine a pinball game—but rather than one metal ball,…
New technique has potential to protect oranges from citrus greening
Citrus greening, also called Huanglongbing (HLB), is devastating the citrus industry. Florida alone has experienced a…
Brand new shark(s), doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Not one, but TWO new species of the rarely seen six-gilled sawsharks have been found in…