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What's The Deal With The 'Supermoon'? There's a Clever Illusion Going On
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What's The Deal With The 'Supermoon'? There's a Clever Illusion Going On
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What's The Deal With The 'Supermoon'? There's a Clever Illusion Going On
No matter where you are in the world, and no matter how light the skies are, the Moon is always there. Our only natural satellite has inspired literature, art and science for thousands of years.
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There Could Be 14 Antimatter Objects Lurking Out There in The Milky Way
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There Could Be 14 Antimatter Objects Lurking Out There in The Milky Way
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There Could Be 14 Antimatter Objects Lurking Out There in The Milky Way
In a map of the gamma-ray sky - the highest energy electromagnetic radiation streaming through our Universe - 14 objects could be hiding a big secret.
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Scientists Have Identified Four Distinct Types of Alzheimer's And What They Do to Us
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Scientists Have Identified Four Distinct Types of Alzheimer's And What They Do to Us
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Scientists Have Identified Four Distinct Types of Alzheimer's And What They Do to Us
The more we understand about Alzheimer's, the faster we can work towards better treatments and ultimately a cure, which makes discovering four distinct subtypes of the brain disease an important one.
The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.
The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water. Physicists quantify this tendency to spread by counting the number of possible ways the dye molecules can be arranged. There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble. There’s another where, say, the molecules settle in a tidy clump at the pool’s bottom. But there are uncountable billions of permutations where the molecules spread out in different ways throughout the water. If the universe chooses from all the possible states at random, you can bet that it’s going to end up with one of the vast set of disordered possibilities. Read on Quantamagazine
The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water. Physicists quantify this tendency to spread by counting the number of possible ways the dye molecules can be arranged. There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble. There’s another where, say, the molecules settle in a tidy clump at the pool’s bottom. But there are uncountable billions of permutations where the molecules spread out in different ways throughout the water. If the universe chooses from all the possible states at random, you can bet that it’s going to end up with one of the vast set of disordered possibilities. Read on Quantamagazine
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Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet's Atmosphere
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Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet's Atmosphere
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Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet's Atmosphere
During a close flyby of the planet Venus in July 2020, NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected something odd.
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Touchdown! SpaceX Safely Lands Gigantic Starship Rocket After 4 Fiery Failures
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Touchdown! SpaceX Safely Lands Gigantic Starship Rocket After 4 Fiery Failures
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Touchdown! SpaceX Safely Lands Gigantic Starship Rocket After 4 Fiery Failures
On Wednesday, SpaceX sent the latest prototype of its mega-rocket system roaring six miles above Texas, its fifth such launch since December.
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Sharks Navigate Using Earth's Magnetic Fields Like a Compass, New Research Shows
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Sharks Navigate Using Earth's Magnetic Fields Like a Compass, New Research Shows
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Sharks Navigate Using Earth's Magnetic Fields Like a Compass, New Research Shows
Sharks are known for their long-distance migrations – across thousands of kilometers – but what's not clear is exactly how they navigate. An interesting new experiment involving swimming pools and magnetic fields may give us some big hints, how
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Have a Listen to The Historic Sound of Ingenuity Flying on Mars
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Have a Listen to The Historic Sound of Ingenuity Flying on Mars
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Have a Listen to The Historic Sound of Ingenuity Flying on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter's blades as it flies through the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
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We're Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It
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We're Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It
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We're Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It
If you're struggling to handle the long line of tabs open in your browser right now, you're not alone.
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Incredible Images Reveal a Single Moment on Jupiter in Different Wavelengths of Light
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Incredible Images Reveal a Single Moment on Jupiter in Different Wavelengths of Light
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Incredible Images Reveal a Single Moment on Jupiter in Different Wavelengths of Light
Jupiter: king of the planets, protector of the inner Solar System. We all know what the gas giant looks like, with its vanilla and butterscotch ice-cream bands of counter-rotating cloud, and the iconic red storm raging in the southern hemisphere.
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Bizarre Discovery Suggests Pink Drinks Make People Run Faster, But Why?
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Bizarre Discovery Suggests Pink Drinks Make People Run Faster, But Why?
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Bizarre Discovery Suggests Pink Drinks Make People Run Faster, But Why?
If you're going to gargle something next time you go for a run, here's some free advice: Try using a pink-colored drink. As strange as it sounds, pink drinks appear to be linked with enhanced running performance.
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Breaking: China's Zhurong Rover Has Successfully Landed on Mars
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Breaking: China's Zhurong Rover Has Successfully Landed on Mars
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Breaking: China's Zhurong Rover Has Successfully Landed on Mars
China's probe to Mars touched down on the red planet Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.
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A Common Earth Molecule Is Detected For The First Time in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
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A Common Earth Molecule Is Detected For The First Time in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
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A Common Earth Molecule Is Detected For The First Time in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
The molecule hydroxyl (HO) is common on Earth, but astronomers have not yet determined how abundant it is on other worlds. For the first time, astronomers have conclusively detected it in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter, WASP-33b.
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Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through The Human Brain
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Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through The Human Brain
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Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through The Human Brain
A study using epilepsy patients undergoing surgery has given neuroscientists an opportunity to track in unprecedented detail the movement of a thought through the human brain, all the way from inspiration to response.
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Here's What Happened to People's Brains After Receiving a Robotic 'Third Thumb'
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Here's What Happened to People's Brains After Receiving a Robotic 'Third Thumb'
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Here's What Happened to People's Brains After Receiving a Robotic 'Third Thumb'
New research with an artificial robotic digit has yielded surprising results - in just a few days, people using the thumb were able to operate it naturally to perform complex tasks like building towers from wooden blocks, or stirring your coffee wh
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The Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy Was Just Detected, And It Has Some Surprises For Us
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The Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy Was Just Detected, And It Has Some Surprises For Us
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The Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy Was Just Detected, And It Has Some Surprises For Us
Scientists have captured a picture of the oldest known spiral galaxy, which was formed 12.4 billion years ago.
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