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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, home to the world's largest digital camera, has released its first breathtaking images, revealing millions of galaxies and over 2,000 new asteroids. Located high in the Chilean mountains, this observatory leverages optimal conditions for astronomical observation, thanks to its dry climate and
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by capturing its first direct image of an exoplanet, named TWA 7 b, located approximately 110 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet is believed to have a mass similar to Saturn and orbits its star at a distance that
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A recent study reveals that the way human adults speak to young children—often characterized by repeated words, exaggerated syllables, and a singsong tone—is unique among primates. This form of infant-directed speech appears to have evolved specifically in humans and may have played a crucial role in the development
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NASA's Curiosity rover has taken unprecedented close-up photographs of intriguing web-like structures on Mars, called 'boxwork,' which resemble giant spiderwebs. These mineral-rich formations, stretching up to 12 miles (20 km), are located on the slopes of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. Formed by ancient groundwater passing
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Researchers have developed a groundbreaking bio-manufacturing approach for building structures on Mars without external inputs. The innovative synthetic lichen system, combining filamentous fungi and cyanobacteria, enables fully autonomous formation of biomaterials by binding Martian regolith into solid structures using only local resources, air, light, and inorganic medium. This technology overcomes
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Scientists have reconstructed a Stone Age-style voyage to explore how ancient humans might have navigated across powerful ocean currents. Using replicas of tools dating from the Upper Paleolithic period, researchers built a primitive dugout canoe and successfully crossed the 110 km stretch between Taiwan and Yonaguni Island, including the treacherous
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Japanese company ispace reports that its second lunar lander mission failed due to problems with a laser rangefinder responsible for measuring altitude during descent. During a briefing on June 23, executives explained that the lander's laser rangefinder malfunctioned, providing delayed altitude data, which caused the spacecraft to descend
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On June 25, a large coronal hole in the Sun's atmosphere is sending a high-speed stream of charged particles toward Earth, leading to the possibility of visible auroras across approximately 15 U.S. states. The Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts a moderate G2 geomagnetic storm, which may make
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Fred Espenak, a distinguished astrophysicist celebrated as 'Mr. Eclipse,' who dedicated over fifty years to observing, documenting, and sharing the wonder of solar eclipses, has died at the age of 73. Throughout his career, he witnessed 52 solar eclipses—31 of them total—and authored several influential books,
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Scientists have discovered that lettuce sea slugs (Elysia crispata) possess a remarkable ability to steal body parts from their prey and utilize them for their own benefit. Unlike typical feeding methods, these slugs harvest chloroplasts—the photosynthesizing organelles—from algae and incorporate them into their own cells. This unique process
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Recent research conducted by Earth scientists at the University of Southampton has uncovered evidence of rhythmic pulses of molten mantle material rising from deep within the Earth's interior beneath the African continent. These pulses are associated with a mantle plume beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia and are
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Long before the rise of the T. rex, Earth was ruled by bizarre and terrifying super-carnivores far stranger than anything Hollywood could imagine. These ancient predators, during the Permian period around 250 to 260 million years ago, engaged in fierce battles, with evidence found in fossilized bones and teeth. Among