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A Superconducting Magnet Just Smashed The Strongest Magnetic Field Record
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A Superconducting Magnet Just Smashed The Strongest Magnetic Field Record
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A Superconducting Magnet Just Smashed The Strongest Magnetic Field Record
A new superconducting magnet has briefly sustained an astonishing 45.5 tesla magnetic field intensity. For comparison, your flimsy fridge magnets have about 1 percent of a single tesla.
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We Have Detected Signs of Our Milky Way Colliding With Another Galaxy
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We Have Detected Signs of Our Milky Way Colliding With Another Galaxy
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We Have Detected Signs of Our Milky Way Colliding With Another Galaxy
Antlia 2, the "ghost of a galaxy" orbiting the Milky Way, is a dark horse in more ways than one. Not only is it so faint it was only just discovered last year, it may now be responsible for curious ripples in the hydrogen gas that makes up the Milk
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Here's Why It's Such a Huge Deal That Jupiter's Moon Europa Is Covered in Salt
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Here's Why It's Such a Huge Deal That Jupiter's Moon Europa Is Covered in Salt
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Here's Why It's Such a Huge Deal That Jupiter's Moon Europa Is Covered in Salt
Thanks to the far-reaching optics of the Hubble telescope, and some smart visible-light spectral analysis, scientists have detected what looks a lot like sodium chloride - or good old table salt - on Jupiter's moon Europa.
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There's a Major Flaw in How We Look at Smartphone "Addiction", Says New Study
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There's a Major Flaw in How We Look at Smartphone "Addiction", Says New Study
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There's a Major Flaw in How We Look at Smartphone "Addiction", Says New Study
Smartphone addiction does not seem like a questionable thing to believe in. It exists. Surely it does, doesn't it?
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From DNA to protein - 3D
This 3D animation shows how proteins are made in the cell from the information in the DNA code.
See how the central dogma of biology works, and how genetic instructions stored in your DNA become the strings of amino acids that do jobs in your cells.
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See how the central dogma of biology works, and how genetic instructions stored in your DNA become the strings of amino acids that do jobs in your cells.
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Cassini's Breathtaking Final Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Shapes in Saturn's Rings
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Cassini's Breathtaking Final Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Shapes in Saturn's Rings
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Cassini's Breathtaking Final Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Shapes in Saturn's Rings
In its final year, Cassini plunged where no spacecraft had plunged before, down in the space between Saturn and its rings. Again and again it dove, for a total of 22 orbits. In the data collecting during those breakneck dives, astronomers have just
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This Incredible Orbit Map of Our Solar System Makes Our Brains Ache
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This Incredible Orbit Map of Our Solar System Makes Our Brains Ache
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This Incredible Orbit Map of Our Solar System Makes Our Brains Ache
If you want to know what a talent for scientific visualizations looks like, check out Eleanor Lutz. She's a PhD student in biology at the University of Washington, and at her website Tabletop Whale, you can see her amazing work on full display.
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Mars' Mysterious, Intense Dust Storms Appear to Be Cyclical - Just Like Earth's Water
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Mars' Mysterious, Intense Dust Storms Appear to Be Cyclical - Just Like Earth's Water
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Mars' Mysterious, Intense Dust Storms Appear to Be Cyclical - Just Like Earth's Water
To say there are some myths circulating about Martian dust storms would be an understatement. Mars is known for its globe-encircling dust storms, the likes of which are seen nowhere else.
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Mathematicians Have Proposed a New Structure to The Periodic Table
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Mathematicians Have Proposed a New Structure to The Periodic Table
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Mathematicians Have Proposed a New Structure to The Periodic Table
The periodic table is such a comforting way of cataloguing the Universe, breaking it down into its elements and organising them in nice neat boxes. What you may not know is it's not the only way of arranging the elements - and it may not even be th
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We Just Found 2 of The Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Yet, Only 12.5 Light Years Away
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We Just Found 2 of The Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Yet, Only 12.5 Light Years Away
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We Just Found 2 of The Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Yet, Only 12.5 Light Years Away
Astronomers are convinced they've found two new Earth-like planets in our galaxy, and both appear so similar to our own, they're now among the top 19 known exoplanets with potentially habitable environments.
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Human Population Through Time #datavisualization
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It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average.…
It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average.…
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For The First Time, Scientists Record The Songs of One of The World's Rarest Whales
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For The First Time, Scientists Record The Songs of One of The World's Rarest Whales
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For The First Time, Scientists Record The Songs of One of The World's Rarest Whales
There aren't many North Pacific right whales left, with vague estimates in the low hundreds. Those last few populations aren't known for waxing lyrical either, so when scientists heard a population recently break out into song, they had to go see t
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Stunning New Pics Reveal The Rings of Uranus Are Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
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Stunning New Pics Reveal The Rings of Uranus Are Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
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Stunning New Pics Reveal The Rings of Uranus Are Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
Saturn may be the most showy, but it's not the only planet in the Solar System circled by rings. And the 13 rings around Uranus just spilled previously unknown details when they photobombed a thermal image astronomers took of the ice planet.
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Chilling NASA Model Shows Greenland's Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over Next 1,000 Years
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Chilling NASA Model Shows Greenland's Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over Next 1,000 Years
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Chilling NASA Model Shows Greenland's Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over Next 1,000 Years
Great news! Humankind's greatest-ever engineering project is nearing completion. Soon we will have warmed the Earth enough to get rid of all those pesky ice sheets and other frozen areas. The finish line is in sight.
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Your Brain Might Be Taking Tiny Naps Throughout The Day Without You Realising
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Your Brain Might Be Taking Tiny Naps Throughout The Day Without You Realising
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Your Brain Might Be Taking Tiny Naps Throughout The Day Without You Realising
If you've ever felt your eyelids droop for just a fraction of a second during some mundane task — like staring at a computer screen or driving down the highway — you've experienced a phenomenon known as "microsleep."
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Genius Mouse Experiment Reveals How Temperature Affects Our Dreams at Night
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Genius Mouse Experiment Reveals How Temperature Affects Our Dreams at Night
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Genius Mouse Experiment Reveals How Temperature Affects Our Dreams at Night
Thanks to a new study on the brains of genetically engineered mice, researchers finally have a better idea of why dreams are likely to be put on hold when the ambient temperature is too hot or too cold. Answer: it's too busy saving your skin.
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Scientists Discover a Vast Reservoir of Freshwater Hidden Beneath The Ocean
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Scientists Discover a Vast Reservoir of Freshwater Hidden Beneath The Ocean
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Scientists Discover a Vast Reservoir of Freshwater Hidden Beneath The Ocean
Underneath the salty waters of the North Atlantic ocean, geologists have discovered a giant aquifer of freshwater, hidden from view just off the US coast.