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It teamed with Venus at the start of the month, making for a stunning sight in the western evening twilight. But the giant of the solar system still has two more appointments on its docket to keep during the time frame running from March 22 to 27.

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Six months after NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed, scientists are beginning to gain a clearer picture of the mission’s target. Careful scrutiny of the debris from the impact of NASA’s DART mission into Dimorphos has not found …

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Two of Uranus’ moons may have active oceans that are pumping material into space, a new study finds. The realization that there may be more happening in the Uranus system than previously believed came via the discovery of strange features in radiation …

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A puzzling radio emission from a galactic cluster located in the constellation may come from the 1.66 million light-year-long radio tail of its dominating central galaxy. The team that made this discovery also found evidence of mergers between galaxies …

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured what might be ‘the tallest tornado’ in the solar system swirling across the north pole of the sun. The twisting filament of boiling plasma kept growing in the sun’s atmosphere for three days last week, …

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One of the four nucleobases of RNA has been discovered in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, providing the strongest evidence yet that the organic building blocks for life on Earth came from space. In December 2020, Hayabusa2, a mission of the …

CNN

In order to successfully hunt prey and survive, the “marsupial sabertooth,” called Thylacosmilus atrox, adapted to view the world in a unique way, according to new research, because its canine teeth that jutted downward from its mouth were so large that …

Phys.Org

Magnetic topological insulators are an exotic class of materials that conduct electrons without any resistance at all and so are regarded as a promising breakthrough in materials science. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat in Würzburg …

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Now imagine that level of computing power as the industry standard. University of Arizona researchers hope to pave the way for that reality using light-based optical computing, a marked improvement from the semiconductor-based transistors that currently …

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The first hibernation studies with human subjects could be feasible within a decade, a European Space Agency (ESA) researcher thinks. Such experiments would pave the way for a science-fiction-like …