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Space.com

The new Independence Day image from the powerful space telescope shows a patriotic-looking protostar. Comments (0). Two glowing blue arcs joined by a bright red smeared sphere. The nebula L1527 and its erupting protostar put on a celestial fireworks …

CNN

That research found a different ant species called Matabele ants, or Megaponera analis, use their mouths to secrete antimicrobial compounds to cleanse injuries and prevent potential infections. The compounds are produced by what’s known as metapleural …

Space.com

The six NASA astronauts who are living off planet at the moment just beamed a special birthday message down to their home country. Mike Barratt, Matt Dominick, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Jeanette Epps, …

The New York Times

According to Kirby Runyon, a geologist at the Planetary Science Institute, all planets in the solar system travel in elongated circles around the sun, rather than perfect ones. And it’s most likely true for worlds around other stars, too.

The New York Times

Spencer Lucas, a paleontologist at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science who was not involved in the study, said that the discovery “is not enough to force a rethink of most of what we think about late Paleozoic tetrapod evolution. But it is …

BBC News

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UEA) studied the feeding habits of blue tits and great tits. In the “first experiment of its kind to involve wild …

Livescience.com

Astronomers have just discovered two dwarf galaxy candidates orbiting our galaxy. The orientation of these entities suggests there could be up to 500 similar stellar clusters circling the Milky Way, which is more than double previous estimates.

Reuters

July 4 (Reuters) – You might call it the “swamp thing.” About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what is now Namibia, ambushing prey as a top predator in a …

The Conversation US

June 25 2024 marked a new “first” in the history of spaceflight. China’s robotic Chang’e 6 spacecraft delivered samples of rock back to Earth from a huge feature on the Moon called the south pole–Aitken basin. After touching down on the Moon’s “far …

Popular Mechanics

For years, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been melting faster than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A new study published by scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) says that insidious …