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Interstellar visitor shaped like giant fire extinguisherA newly discovered object from another star system that's passing through ours is shaped like a giant pink fire extinguisher. "I'm surprised by the elongated shape - nobody expected that," said astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California, Los
Questionable herpes vaccine research backed by tech heavyweight Peter Thiel may have jeopardized $15 million in federal research funding to Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. That’s according to documents obtained by a Freedom of Information
Earth's ozone hole shrivels to smallest since 1988NASA says the ozone hole over Antarctica shrank to its smallest peak since 1988. This year's maximum hole is more than twice as big as the United States, but it's 1.3 million square miles less than last year and 3.3 million square miles smaller than 2015.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that an asteroid discovered in 2006 is actually two and that it acts more like a comet.
Sun unleashes most powerful solar flare since 2006Two powerful solar flares erupted from the surface of the sun Wednesday, disrupting radio communications on Earth's day side. And we may see some other effects in the coming days, mainly in the form of northern lights.
A brief history of quantum alternativesIn 1915, Albert Einstein, with a ee pittle help from his friends, developed a theory of gravity that overturned what we’d thought were the very foundations of physical reality. The idea that the space that we inhabit was not perfectly described by Euclide
A megateam of reproducibility-minded scientists is renewing a controversial proposal to raise the standard for statistical significance in research studies. They want researchers to dump the long-standing use of a probability value (p-value) of less than
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