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Researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest visual representations of the Milky Way in ancient Egyptian artifacts, revealing a fascinating connection between astronomy and religious beliefs in pharaonic Egypt. Dr. Or Graur, an astrophysics associate pro…
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A collaborative team from Penn Medicine and Penn Engineering has uncovered the mathematical principles behind a 500-million-year-old protein network that determines whether foreign materials are recognized as friend or foe. How does your body tell the differe…
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By tracing powerful radio signals back to  their host galaxies near the beginning of time, astrophysicists have pinpointed where the Universe's missing matter is hiding.
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Humans have brain regions known as the "action observation network (AON)." They fire up whenever our brain sees another person do something.
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Engineers switched to a backup fuel line less than a quarter of the way through Psyche’s mission.
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After decades of mystery and countless scientific hypotheses, we finally have a clear understanding of what lies beneath the surface and deep inside the Moon.
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There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily recognizable patterns.
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Mercury’s crust is scarred with fractures and towering cliffs—but recent research suggests something more than ancient cooling is at play.
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Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate.
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If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at small edges and meandering fronts in the Baltic Sea.
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Before it met the 30,000-50,000 kelvin wall at the edge of our Solar System, Voyager 1 took its final images.
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The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be chemically active.
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SLAC scientists have just shattered records with an electron beam five times more powerful than ever before. This breakthrough opens new doors in physics, chemistry, and beyond.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made its final close approach to the sun, reaching 3.86 million miles as it seeks to understand the solar corona and space weather.
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This 1-minute video shows the movement of Earth’s tectonic and plate boundaries over the past 1.8 billion years.
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The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate.
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The quantum physics community is buzzing with excitement after researchers at Rice University finally observed a phenomenon that had eluded scientists for over 70 years. This breakthrough, recently published in Science Advances is known as the superradiant ph…
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Dive into the science on how your eating habits can support healthy aging, plus tips and recipes to put it into practice.
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Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) have the incredible ability to regenerate limbs, and even entire organs.
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A Miocene fish fossil with soft tissue and intact pigmentation has been discovered in New South Wales, revealing prehistoric ecology.
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The alignment occurs hours after the moon hits its third quarter phase.
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Firefly Aerospace says it plans to offer a commercial lunar imaging service for use by governments and companies.
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A space situational awareness company spied satellite close approaches in geosynchronous orbit.
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