OregonLive May 23

A glacier bigger than Washington state is melting faster than ever. The implications are dire - OregonLive.com

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A fossil site in North Dakota appears to have captured the day the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, right down to tiny glass beads from the impact lodged in the gills of fish that died within hours - Space Daily
Space Daily May 23

A fossil site in North Dakota appears to have captured the day the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, right down to tiny glass beads from the impact lodged in the gills of fish that died within hours - Space Daily

The site is called Tanis, in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota. In 2019, a team led by Robert DePalm...

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The Last Time The Clock Read 23:59:60 Was On December 31, 2016. It Will Not Happen Again This June - IFLScience
IFLScience May 23

The Last Time The Clock Read 23:59:60 Was On December 31, 2016. It Will Not Happen Again This June - IFLScience

The next opportunity may come on New Year's Eve this year, but it all depends on the distribution of Earth's mass, and t...

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A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big Bang, which means millions of people spent decades staring at the oldest light in the universe without knowing it. - Space Daily
Space Daily May 23

A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big Bang, which means millions of people spent decades staring at the oldest light in the universe without knowing it. - Space Daily

The claim is true, though the version of it that gets repeated most often is softer than it sounds. When an analog telev...

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Researchers simulated 30 million routes to the Moon and found a hidden detour through L1 that saves fuel and keeps spacecraft talking to Earth the whole way - Space Daily
Space Daily May 23

Researchers simulated 30 million routes to the Moon and found a hidden detour through L1 that saves fuel and keeps spacecraft talking to Earth the whole way - Space Daily

An international team of researchers has identified a new fuel-efficient route between Earth and the Moon that also avoi...

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The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow - Space Daily
Space Daily May 23

The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow - Space Daily

The retroreflectors left on the Moon by Apollo 11, 14, and 15 still return laser pulses fired from Earth, and 57 years o...

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The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because NASA refused to risk contaminating Enceladus, and in its final 90 seconds its thrusters fought the atmosphere so it could keep sending data home - Space Daily
Space Daily May 23

The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because NASA refused to risk contaminating Enceladus, and in its final 90 seconds its thrusters fought the atmosphere so it could keep sending data home - Space Daily

{"content":"On September 15, 2017, at 11:55:46 UTC, a 22-foot-tall spacecraft the size of a school bus tore itself apart...

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Scientists Finally Think They Know Why T. rex Had Tiny Arms - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily May 22

Scientists Finally Think They Know Why T. rex Had Tiny Arms - SciTechDaily

A new study suggests T. rex and other giant predators evolved tiny arms because their massive skulls took over as the pr...

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83-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Lizard Fossil Unearthed in France - Sci.News
Sci.news May 22

83-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Lizard Fossil Unearthed in France - Sci.News

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of pan-shinisaur lizard from a partial upper jaw discovered in s...

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Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be Lone Survivor of an Ancient Cosmic Massacre - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com May 22

Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be Lone Survivor of an Ancient Cosmic Massacre - Gizmodo

A lunar crash may have destroyed Neptune's original set of moons, leaving one oddball behind....

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Mysterious Earthquakes Strike Like Clockwork – We May Finally Know Why - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert May 22

Mysterious Earthquakes Strike Like Clockwork – We May Finally Know Why - ScienceAlert

For more than three decades, experts have been trying to solve the mystery of why a certain kind of underwater fault tri...

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The Voyager Golden Record carries a small sample of uranium on its cover, placed there so that whoever finds it can measure the decay and work out how long it has been drifting — a built-in clock for a message engineered to last around a billion years. - Space Daily
Space Daily May 22

The Voyager Golden Record carries a small sample of uranium on its cover, placed there so that whoever finds it can measure the decay and work out how long it has been drifting — a built-in clock for a message engineered to last around a billion years. - Space Daily

Each of the two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, carries a phonograph record. The records hold sounds and images ch...

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That Dreaded Air Leak on the ISS’s Russian Segment Is Back - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com May 22

That Dreaded Air Leak on the ISS’s Russian Segment Is Back - Gizmodo

You thought it was over!...

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Physicists figure out how to reduce formation of 'viscous fingers' - Phys.org
Phys.Org May 22

Physicists figure out how to reduce formation of 'viscous fingers' - Phys.org

When they reach the bottom of a soap dispenser, frugal handwashers might try adding water to the bottle to push out the ...

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NASA Reboot Memo From Jared Isaacman (long) - NASA Watch
Nasawatch.com May 22

NASA Reboot Memo From Jared Isaacman (long) - NASA Watch

NASA Reboot Memo From Jared Isaacman (long)...

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'Designer' superconducting diamond: Researchers uncover path to multi-modality quantum chips - Phys.org
Phys.Org May 22

'Designer' superconducting diamond: Researchers uncover path to multi-modality quantum chips - Phys.org

Diamond is extremely valuable to science and technology not for its sparkle but for its extreme hardness, high thermal c...

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An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky' - Space
Space.com May 22

An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky' - Space

Medieval records of the northern lights extending as far as Japan have led researchers to evidence for a powerful burst ...

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Seal pups were dying from a 'corkscrew killer' on a Canadian island. It turned out to be cannibals. - Live Science
Live Science May 22

Seal pups were dying from a 'corkscrew killer' on a Canadian island. It turned out to be cannibals. - Live Science

Dead seal pups on a Canadian island have been found with mysterious spiral-shaped injuries for years. The wounds were th...

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A Strange Black Hole Mystery Has Stumped Physicists Since 1993. Researchers May Finally Have the Answer - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com May 22

A Strange Black Hole Mystery Has Stumped Physicists Since 1993. Researchers May Finally Have the Answer - Gizmodo

Some black holes could have tamer origins—in the folds of unusual "spacetime crystals" that researchers finally manage...

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Earth's outer core beneath Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveal - Phys.org
Phys.Org May 22

Earth's outer core beneath Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveal - Phys.org

The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way...

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Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting a nearby red dwarf - Phys.org
Phys.Org May 22

Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting a nearby red dwarf - Phys.org

Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an exo...

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The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through an orange haze colder than minus 170 degrees Celsius, and more than a billion kilometres from home it remains the only spacecraft humanity has ever landed anywhere in t - Space Daily
Space Daily May 22

The Huygens probe descended by parachute to the surface of Titan in 2005, through an orange haze colder than minus 170 degrees Celsius, and more than a billion kilometres from home it remains the only spacecraft humanity has ever landed anywhere in t - Space Daily

On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s la...

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JWST just mapped the morning weather on a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast of sand-like clouds exposed a 100-fold bias in how exoplanet atmospheres have been read for more than a decade - Space Daily
Space Daily May 22

JWST just mapped the morning weather on a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast of sand-like clouds exposed a 100-fold bias in how exoplanet atmospheres have been read for more than a decade - Space Daily

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced something close to a daily weather report for a planet 690 light-years away,...

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Phys.Org May 22

Why the intrinsic quantum effects of axion dark matter are completely undetectable - Phys.org

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