Central Pennsylvania. Southern England. Arizona. The northern lights are most often seen in Earth’s northernmost regions,…
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Cosmic collision that will shake the universe
The smaller, brighter, and hotter star (on the left), which has a mass of 32 times…
How did the Earth’s continents form? The leading theory may be questionable
Scientists have eliminated one possible origin for the Earth’s continents. Despite the importance of Earth’s continents,…
Photosynthesis uses a process surprisingly close to a Bose-Einstein condenser
You might think that given how basic and ubiquitous photosynthesis is, we’d long ago figured out…
Link between photosynthesis and ‘fifth state of matter’ discovered
A study by the University of Chicago found links at the atomic level between photosynthesis and…
Meet the ‘Tadpole from Hell’–a wrecked Scottish fossil revealing the terrifying ancient predator
Crassigyrinus was well adapted to life as an aquatic predator. Credit: © Bob Nichols 2018 Researchers…
Astronomers observe a star swallowing a planet for the first time
(CNN) For the first time in the world, scientists have observed the moment when a person…
Webb Telescope detects water vapor, but from a rocky planet or its star?
This artist’s concept represents the rocky exoplanet GJ 486 b, which orbits a red dwarf star…
The “zenith of Venus” and the occultation of Jupiter
An occultation is a celestial event that occurs when an object is obscured by another object…
Saturn’s rings are sucked back into the planet
An artist’s impression of what Saturn might look like in the next 100 million years. The…