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Fossil found in Germany shows starfish relative engaged in clonal fragmentation 150 million years ago

A team of paleontologists from Germany and Austria reports that a brittle star fossil found in Germany shows evidence of clonal fragmentation 150 million years ago. Their paper is published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biologica.....»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopMay 15th, 2024Related News

Critically endangered bird at a greater risk of being taken for captivity than harmed through loss of habitat

Research by Royal Holloway, University of London and ZSL has found that a critically endangered bird's biggest threat is being taken from its habitat to be used as a caged bird for its beauty......»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopMay 14th, 2024Related News

Astronomers explore globular cluster NGC 2419

Using the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have explored a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 2419. Results of the study, published April 29 on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the propertie.....»»

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The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW) proposal

Humankind has never before seen the low frequency radio sky. It is hidden from ground-based telescopes by the Earth's ionosphere and challenging to access from space with traditional missions because the long wavelengths involved (meter- to kilometer.....»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopMay 2nd, 2024Related News

What’s new on Hulu in May 2024 and what’s leaving soon

Hulu's May 2024 lineup includes Elvis, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Mask, Cast Away, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Die Hard, Welcome to Wrexham, and more......»»

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New observatory in Chile—the highest in the world—aims to reveal origins of planets, galaxies and more

How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries out there marks its opening on April 30, 2024......»»

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Here"s why we should put a gravitational wave observatory on the moon

Scientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers have been hungering for better detectors. But the Earth is warm and seismically noisy, and that will always limit the effectiveness of Earth-based de.....»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopApr 28th, 2024Related News

See incredible time lapses of two of space’s most famous objects

Two striking timelapses from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show how two famous objects have changed over the last two decades......»»

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NASA"s Chandra releases timelapse movies of Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A

New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky—the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A—are being released from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Each includes X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in.....»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopApr 24th, 2024Related News

Vast DNA tree of life for plants revealed by global science team using 1.8 billion letters of genetic code

A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life......»»

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Hunting for the elusive: IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos

Researchers at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica have found seven signals that could potentially indicate tau neutrinos—which are famously hard to detect—from astrophysical objects......»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopApr 23rd, 2024Related News

Dramatic burning of royal remains reveals Maya regime change

New archaeological investigations in Guatemala reveal that ancient Maya peoples did not just passively watch their dynastic systems collapse at the end of the Classic period. They actively reworked their political systems to create new governments......»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopApr 19th, 2024Related News

Astronauts to patch up NASA"s NICER telescope

NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit serviced by astronauts......»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopApr 17th, 2024Related News

Plugging the leak on laundry pollution

Joaquim Goes, an ocean biochemist at Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, had to look twice when he first saw the tiny strands of fiber floating in a water sample from the Hudson River. An expert in microplastics detection, he.....»»

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Astronomers inspect open cluster Berkeley 50

Using the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), astronomers from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, have observed a young Galactic open cluster known as Berkeley 50. Results of the observational campaign, presented April 5 on the preprint serv.....»»

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The brightest gamma ray burst ever seen came from a collapsing star

After a journey lasting about two billion years, photons from an extremely energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) struck the sensors on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope on October 9th, 2022. The GRB lasted seven min.....»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopApr 15th, 2024Related News

How conspiracy theories around George III"s madness and Queen Charlotte"s scheming took hold

During the Georgian period, the British royal family had a strange habit of concealing illness, even from themselves......»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopApr 8th, 2024Related News

The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is ready to go

Ready to scan the night sky for evidence of dark matter and to identify near-Earth asteroids, the camera for the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory is complete......»»

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Arecibo Observatory telescope outfitted with a wideband cryogenic system to expand its capabilities

Constructed within a natural sinkhole in Puerto Rico, the 305-meter-wide Arecibo Telescope played a part in numerous discoveries, including the first detection of an exoplanet. It was the largest radio telescope in the United States from 1963 until i.....»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopMar 29th, 2024Related News

ESA, NASA Solar Observatory discovers its 5,000th comet

On March 25, 2024, a citizen scientist in the Czech Republic spotted a comet in an image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which has now been confirmed to be the 5,000th comet discovered using SOHO data. SOHO has achieved.....»»

Source:  PhysorgCategory: TopMar 27th, 2024Related News