New Horizon Prize in Physics awarded to scientists chasing mysterious black hole photon spheres

Alexandru Lupsasca and Michael Johnson won the New Horizons award for their work on photon spheres — weird rings of light around black holes that may reveal a theory of quantum gravity. | Continue reading


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Universe's 'cosmological collider' lands 3 scientists $100,000 physics prize

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties. | Continue reading


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Human elbows and shoulders evolved as 'brakes' for climbing ape ancestors

Researchers studied chimpanzee and monkey anatomy to better understand how humans evolved to have flexible shoulders and elbows. | Continue reading


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World's 1st mountaintop impact crater discovered in northeastern China

A two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop crater. | Continue reading


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Rare polar ring galaxy is 'one of the most spectacular' astronomers have ever seen

Astronomers discovered an ultra-rare spiral galaxy with a ring of hydrogen swirling around its poles. | Continue reading


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Electric Vehicles

Everything you need to know about zero-emission cars, buses and trucks with the latest EV news, features and articles. | Continue reading


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Asteroid that collided with NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly, high school class discovers

Asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA intentionally hit with a rocket during its DART mission in September 2022, is behaving in unpredicted ways. | Continue reading


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Who should get the new COVID vaccines? What to know about the 2023-2024 shots

New COVID vaccines have been approved to guard against coronavirus variants that are currently circulating. | Continue reading


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The closest black holes to Earth may be 10 times closer than we thought

Astronomers found evidence of multiple stellar-mass black holes lurking in the nearby Hyades cluster, just 150 light-years from Earth. | Continue reading


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Team Egg or Team Sponge? Scientists divided over identity of mysterious golden orb from bottom of ocean

The weird gold dome-shaped object was found during an NOAA expedition to the Gulf of Mexico and is now being preserved in ethanol until it can be sent for laboratory analysis. | Continue reading


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1st of its kind footage shows guard dogs saving sheep from puma attack on a pitch black mountain

The footage of a puma hunting sheep was captured with thermal imaging cameras in the Patagonian wilderness as part of a new National Geographic show. | Continue reading


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Early human relatives purposefully crafted stones into spheres 1.4 million years ago, study claims

The stone spheres were crafted by early hominins who were trying to create symmetry in the objects, a new study suggests. | Continue reading


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Save 20% on the stylish Garmin Venu Sq 2 fitness watch at Amazon

Reduced by 20%, you can now get the Garmin Venu Sq 2 smartwatch for under $200 at Amazon. It’s bright, accurate, and has a great battery life. | Continue reading


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Save 27% with the Sunny Health and Fitness Bike, now under $300!

The Sunny Health and Fitness bike has been reduced by 27% on Amazon. It looks like a typical spinning bike at the gym, and is extremely quiet and sturdy. | Continue reading


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What happens to cancer cells after they're killed by treatments?

Cancer treatments aim to kill tumor cells, and the immune system is tasked with getting rid of the resulting corpses. | Continue reading


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Who were the first farmers?

Farming fundamentally altered the way humans live, eventually changing people from nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary city-dwellers. | Continue reading


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Leading ingredient in over-the-counter decongestants doesn't work, FDA panel rules

The Food and Drug Administration reviewed data on phenylephrine, an ingredient in many popular decongestants, and deemed it ineffective when taken orally. | Continue reading


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'I am horrified': Archaeologists are fuming over ancient human relative remains sent to edge of space

Scientists are calling the Virgin Galactic mission that carried the bones of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi to the edge of space a major ethical breach. | Continue reading


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New poppy seed-sized fuel pellets could power nuclear reactors on the moon

Scientists have developed a nuclear fuel source no larger than a seed, which NASA will test for use in future moon missions. | Continue reading


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Mac Mini M2 Pro review: Small but mighty

Apple's desktop line-up gets some love, and it's students that will win out with the Mac Mini M2 and Mac Mini M2 Pro. | Continue reading


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Nicotine vapes are one of the best tools to help people quit smoking, review of 300 trials suggests

Nicotine vapes and two drugs called varenicline and cytisine were found to be the stop-smoking aids most likely to help people quit. | Continue reading


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'Once again, innovation and proliferation ended with catastrophe': The environmental disaster of plants taking over the world

"By colonizing the continents and moving to the source of the elements whose availability constrained their ocean-dwelling ancestors, land plants set themselves up to become the second great world-changers." | Continue reading


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7,000-year-old animal bones, human remains found in enigmatic stone structure in Arabia

Researchers have discovered human bones and animal remains dating to around 7,000 years ago in Arabian stone structures known as mustatils. | Continue reading


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Green comet Nishimura will reach closest point to Earth today, and it won't be back for another 430 years

The comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, will soon be slingshotted around the sun and back out toward the edge of the solar system where it will remain for centuries. | Continue reading


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'Magical artifacts' found along centuries-old pilgrimage route to Mecca may have protected against evil eye

Archaeologists analyzed a number of artifacts from a pilgrimage camp in Israel that they think "sorcerers" used for magical purposes. | Continue reading


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Gene variant carried by 1 in 5 people may guard against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, massive study finds

An immune-related gene variant has been tied to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's across a huge, diverse population of people. | Continue reading


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OM System OM-1 review

A modern reinvention of a legendary model, the OM System OM-1 is the best Micro Four Thirds camera ever made — and one of the best cameras, period. | Continue reading


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Panasonic Lumix S5 IIX review

If video is important to you, look no further than the Panasonic Lumix S5 IIX — which is arguably Panasonic's greatest camera ever. | Continue reading


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Mysterious bamboo regeneration baffles scientists ahead of once-in-a-century blooming event

Henon bamboo flowers only once every 120 years then vanishes for years, and researchers have no idea how it comes back to life. | Continue reading


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Florida alligator weighing over 900 pounds could have been 90 years old when caught

The enormous alligator was over 13 feet long and weighed 920 pounds — the second heaviest ever to be caught in Florida. | Continue reading


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See a European satellite take a fiery fall through the atmosphere in world-1st mission

ESA's wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica. | Continue reading


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In a 1st, scientists grow human kidneys inside developing pig embryos

Scientists grew early-stage human kidneys inside pig embryos and found the kidneys were "structurally normal" and made up of around 60% human cells. | Continue reading


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James Webb telescope could detect life on Earth from across the galaxy, new study suggests

Researchers have shown that if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at Earth from a distant star, it could detect the signatures of intelligent life in our planet's atmosphere. | Continue reading


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Here's why Morocco's quake was so deadly — and what we can do for the next one

More than 2,500 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco on Sept. 8. | Continue reading


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Dolly the sheep clone creator Ian Wilmut dies at 79

Sir Ian Wilmut was key to the successful creation of Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, in 1996. | Continue reading


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Apple Watch Series 8 gets $90 discount ahead of Series 9 announcement

Save big on the Apple Watch Series 8 at Amazon while stocks last. | Continue reading


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Ancient sea monsters grew their long necks super fast after Great Dying by adding more vertebrae

Some of these aquatic reptiles of the dinosaur era had dozens of individual bones running down their long necks. | Continue reading


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Tortoise beetle larvae use their telescopic anuses to build shields from shed skin and poop

Many tortoise beetle larvae create shields for themselves using faeces and old skin. Scientists have now looked at how and why they create these poop parasols. | Continue reading


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Divers recover US airman's remains from WWII bomber wreck near Malta

The remains have been identified as those of a gunner killed when the badly damaged aircraft crashed into the sea in 1943. | Continue reading


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NASA is hunting for life outside the solar system. Here's how.

"We aren’t going to see little green men but rather spectral signatures of these key chemicals, or what we call biosignatures." | Continue reading


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Why does Earth have magnetic poles?

Earth is the only rocky body in the inner solar system with strong magnetic poles. But where do these poles come from, and what do they do? | Continue reading


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Science news this week: Burping black holes and radioactive wild boars

Sept. 8, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading


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Space photo of the week: Gargantuan sunspots photobomb the world's largest telescope

Two planet-sized sunspots peer out from behind what will be the world's largest telescope, currently being built on a mountaintop in Chile. | Continue reading


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Which animal has the shortest life span?

Mayflies are famous for cramming an entire life into a single day, but that's not strictly true. | Continue reading


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Watch bear and wolf attack moose mom and calf at same time in rare, remarkable footage

In camera trap footage captured in the Alaskan wilderness, the moose appears to try to fight off the bear, as the wolf goes after the calf. | Continue reading


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