
Spot a fireball during tonight’s Northern Taurid meteor shower - CNN
Fireballs will shine under a waxing crescent moon as the Northern Taurid meteor shower puts on a show Wednesday night into Thursday.
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Fireballs will shine under a waxing crescent moon as the Northern Taurid meteor shower puts on a show Wednesday night into Thursday.
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Nuclear pore proteins maintain a fluid, spatially organized barrier through coordinated molecular interactions, explaining how cells achieve selective transport and reconciling competing models of pore structure.
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A distinct physical nuclear state acquired by embryos at the beginning of life supports the initiation of the zygotic transcription program.
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A network-science-based framework that embeds network heterogeneity into mechanical metamaterials is used to produce scale-rich metamaterials that exhibit properties inaccessible to traditional single-scale systems.
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Picture produced by fresh analysis of the data that yielded the first-ever image of a black hole outputs the same, ring-like shape.
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A critical section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet—including Thwaites glacier—rapidly retreated during milder periods of global warming.
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Energetic pathways that make and break complex molecules are critical to all life. It’s even possible that these self-sustaining cycles could have been key at life’s beginning.
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This dazzling collection of ancient stars could hold clues to the Milky Way's past.
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Flash VGR in Morse code on November 17 to salute the veteran probe – just don't expect it to see you
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Try 4 wall exercises for lower belly after 65, from a trainer with 20+ years of experience. Easier on the back than crunches.
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A massive new simulation re-creates the universe’s first 2 billion years, offering scientists a closer look at how the earliest galaxies formed and evolved.
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It's one of geology's deepest mysteries.
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An ocean research vessel is installing underwater sensors on the floor of Lake Superior this week to detect neutrinos — tiny particles that may hold clues on the origins of the universe and could also have military applications.
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A provocative new cosmological model suggests the Universe could be 26.7 billion years old and might not need dark matter or dark energy to explain its behavior. University of Ottawa researchers tested the theory against several major astronomical observation…
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The FAA has cleared the Dream Chaser spaceplane to land at Vandenberg Space Force Base, opening the door to runway returns from orbit.
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When is a de-extinction not a de-extinction? Some headline-grabbing methods for bringing extinct species back to life fall short of such grand claims, according to a new argument published in Biology Letters.
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The oldest pair of compact quasars ever observed has been found only 900 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists say there is no theoretical explanation for how the pair of actively feeding black holes grew so massive at such an early time in the history…
Read full articleTectonic plates may have allowed life to form on Earth – but exactly when they started moving is a long-standing mystery.
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University of Missouri researchers have created a single solid material that responds differently depending on what it's exposed to. Shine light on it, and it changes from yellow to white, an indication of a chemical reaction. Heat it, and it undergoes a diff…
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Astronomers may have solved one of the biggest mysteries uncovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), using sophisticated simulations to show that enigmatic objects known as "little red dots" (LRDs) are likely the birthplaces of the first supermassi…
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When the most massive stars in the universe die, they often detonate in fiery supernovae, dramatically blasting most of their matter into space. The remaining stellar cores collapse into neutron stars and, sometimes, black holes. However, theories suggest tha…
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Talk about a prehistoric plot twist.
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