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A seismic wave from the 2011 magnitude 9 earthquake in Japan traveled nearly 2,900 kilometers into the Earth’s core, then rebounded to the surface 13 minutes later, moving the entire country eastward by about six millimeters at the same instant – in the first observation of its kind ever recorded.
For 15 years after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake — among the most precise natural disasters in history — a small…
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Fossils challenge assumptions about how animals adapted to the land
Scientists have long hypothesized that the earliest aquatic animals that moved to land had the characteristics of amphibious tadpoles, undergoing…
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Why is the sun’s atmosphere hundreds of times hotter than its surface: Aditya-L1 helps solve sun’s biggest mystery |
The sun seems to be violating one of nature’s basic rules. Normally, moving away from the heat source should result…
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Mercury was once expected to be too hot for ice, because it lies so close to the sun, but radar observations revealed bright spots near its poles, and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft later confirmed that many of them were water ice, preserved inside craters where sunlight never reaches.
Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, and for a long time this was reason enough to assume that…
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Indian-origin NASA astronaut Anil Menon prepares for his first space mission
Your browser does not support the video tag. Indian-origin NASA astronaut Anil Menon prepares for his first space mission First…
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A ‘paradigm shift’ against TEs as ‘genetic parasites or junk DNA’
Amazing new article in cell Reviews the functions of transposable elements (TEs), and reports a “paradigm shift” against the view…
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68 quadrillion miles: Scientists map Earth’s vast hidden fungal network for the first time
Global map of bottom densities of AM fungi. Credit: Truth and Beauty / Moritz Stefaner Justin Stewart – SPUN The…
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Magnetic fields determine stable states in complex quantum systems
Scientists at RWTH Aachen University, Jia Jia Luo and Volker Meiden, have performed a comprehensive characterization of the critical quantum…
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Complex equations lack simple solutions, physicists now confirm
The Klein-Gordon and Dauphin-Kimmerer-Pettiau equations, when applied to a scalar particle interacting with a specific transcendental potential, have no effect.…
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The American flags planted by Apollo astronauts likely bleached pure white after 50 years of unfiltered solar radiation, leaving the most famous banners in history standing as a white canvas.
The six American flags planted on the Moon between July 1969 and December 1972 – starting with the nylon flag…
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