Science Alert
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[:es] A Strange Fossil in South China Reveals an Intriguing Link With The First Americans [:]
Remains recovered from a cave in the Chinese province of Yunnan more than 10 years ago have finally given up their secrets, with a DNA analysis revealing not just who […]
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[:es] It Turns Out Your Sperm Is Full of DNA Packed as Tightly as Tetris Blocks [:]
Our DNA is packed into our nucleus pretty damn tightly. Each chromosome is one looong DNA molecule wrapped around proteins called histones, like a very tiny thread on very tiny […]
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[:es] A Long-Standing Mystery About Early Supermassive Black Holes Could Finally Be Solved [:]
Over the last few years, as we have been able to peer back deeper and deeper into the early Universe, astronomers have been discovering something extremely puzzling.
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[:es] Great White Sharks Are Being Scared From Their Habitat by Just Two Predators [:]
There is no sea creature whose name inspires terror – rightly or wrongly – as much as the great white shark.
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[:es] New Study Reveals Devastating Effect on Astronaut Bones From Living in Space [:]
Astronauts lose decades’ worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year back on Earth, researchers said Thursday, warning that it could be a […]
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[:es] The Largest Star in The Milky Way Is Slowly Dying, And Astronomers Are Watching [:]
Three-dimensional models of astronomical objects can be ridiculously complex. They can range from black holes that light doesn’t even escape to the literal size of the Universe and everything in […]
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[:es] Strange Honeycomb Pattern on Mars Appears to Be Formed by Water Ice And CO2 [:]
From orbit, this landscape on Mars looks like a lacy honeycomb or a spider web. But the unusual polygon-shaped features aren’t created by Martian bees or spiders; they are actually […]
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[:es] A ‘Very Exciting’ Anomaly Detected in Major Experiment Could Be Huge News For Physics [:]
A strange gap between theoretical predictions and experimental results in a major neutrino research project could be a sign of the elusive ‘sterile’ neutrino – a particle so quiet, it […]
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[:es] The Collapse of an Atlantic Ocean Current Would Ripple Across The World [:]
Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic.