Arctic Rivers Are Defying What Scientists Thought They Knew About Erosion - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert Sep 06

Arctic Rivers Are Defying What Scientists Thought They Knew About Erosion - ScienceAlert

Scientists have to follow the data, even if it doesn't make sense....

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Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped - Hackaday
Hackaday Sep 06

Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped - Hackaday

Although some would argue that the hexagon is the bestagon, astronomers have discovered that Saturn appears to favor the...

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Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic AlfvĂ©n-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels fro - spacedaily.com
Space Daily Sep 06

Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic AlfvĂ©n-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels fro - spacedaily.com

Cassini data reveal that tiny Enceladus drives a main and reflected AlfvĂ©n-wave system through Saturn’s magnetosphere...

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Astronomers’ New Gallery of 16 ‘Cosmic Gems’ Show the Variety of Galaxy Shapes - goodnewsnetwork.org
Good News Network Sep 06

Astronomers’ New Gallery of 16 ‘Cosmic Gems’ Show the Variety of Galaxy Shapes - goodnewsnetwork.org

NASA put together a photo gallery of 16 ‘cosmic gems’ to showcase the variety of sizes, shapes, and high-energy feat...

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Six unusual structures identified at Earth's core-mantle boundary with the help of deep learning - Phys.org
Phys.Org Sep 06

Six unusual structures identified at Earth's core-mantle boundary with the help of deep learning - Phys.org

Since scientists can't drill 2,900 km (1,800 miles) to the boundary between Earth's core and deep mantle, they must use ...

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The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a - Space Daily

A reanalysis suggests Voyager 2 encountered Uranus during rare solar-wind compression, temporarily shrinking the dayside...

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On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test - Space
Space.com Sep 06

On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test - Space

The test, while unsucessful, did show that Navy ships could be floating launch pads for a new kind of weapon: the ballis...

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video) - Space
Space.com Sep 06

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video) - Space

It was the 103rd Falcon 9 launch of the year....

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The extinct American 'cheetah' was not a cheetah after all - Phys.org
Phys.Org Sep 06

The extinct American 'cheetah' was not a cheetah after all - Phys.org

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long t...

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Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissio - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissio - Space Daily

Solar neutrinos escape from the core in seconds, while radiant energy diffuses through dense plasma for roughly 170,000 ...

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In 2021, NASA grew Hatch chile peppers aboard the ISS for 137 days; four plants in the Advanced Plant Habitat yielded 26 peppers, and the stems holding flower to fruit grew straight instead of curved as they do on Earth - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

In 2021, NASA grew Hatch chile peppers aboard the ISS for 137 days; four plants in the Advanced Plant Habitat yielded 26 peppers, and the stems holding flower to fruit grew straight instead of curved as they do on Earth - Space Daily

Weightlessness doesn't just change how astronauts move—it rewires how plants grow, forcing botanists to rethink agricu...

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Through her estate, poet Jane Mead donated the 1,318-acre Mead Ranch above Napa Valley, knitting a wildlife corridor beside the 2,300-acre Walt Ranch and the 1,380-acre Sutro Preserve - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

Through her estate, poet Jane Mead donated the 1,318-acre Mead Ranch above Napa Valley, knitting a wildlife corridor beside the 2,300-acre Walt Ranch and the 1,380-acre Sutro Preserve - Space Daily

A poet's final gift connects protected lands into a sprawling wildlife corridor, transforming fragmented hillsides into ...

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'Quiet' pulsar suddenly reveals three glitches in 15 years of observations - Phys.org
Phys.Org Sep 06

'Quiet' pulsar suddenly reveals three glitches in 15 years of observations - Phys.org

Using more than 15 years of observations from the Parkes radio telescope, astronomers detected three rotational glitches...

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Small asteroid impact likely today near Australia - EarthSky
EarthSky Sep 06

Small asteroid impact likely today near Australia - EarthSky

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Scientists found an estimated 5.5 million wild bees living beneath a New York cemetery — millions of solitary insects packed into underground burrows across just 1.5 acres, creating one of the largest nesting aggregations ever recorded at a site where the spe - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

Scientists found an estimated 5.5 million wild bees living beneath a New York cemetery — millions of solitary insects packed into underground burrows across just 1.5 acres, creating one of the largest nesting aggregations ever recorded at a site where the spe - Space Daily

A shortcut through a graveyard revealed millions of bees living invisibly beneath New York soil—a discovery that rewri...

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Study Reveals New Details About Death Of Largest T Rex Ever Discovered - NDTV
NDTV News Sep 06

Study Reveals New Details About Death Of Largest T Rex Ever Discovered - NDTV

The prehistoric autopsy helped researchers determine that Scotty died from injuries suffered during a fight with another...

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Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% of our planet, while modern Mars has no permanent bodies of liquid water. - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% of our planet, while modern Mars has no permanent bodies of liquid water. - Space Daily

Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering ...

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OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna put $5.5 million toward buying the 63-acre Moon Camp shoreline at Big Bear Lake, stopping a planned 50-home marina near the Jackie and Shadow bald eagle nest - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna put $5.5 million toward buying the 63-acre Moon Camp shoreline at Big Bear Lake, stopping a planned 50-home marina near the Jackie and Shadow bald eagle nest - Space Daily

An AI executive's $5.5 million gift saves a California lakeside nesting ground from development, protecting the eagles w...

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NASA expands Deep Space Network with giant new dish in California desert - Space
Space.com Sep 06

NASA expands Deep Space Network with giant new dish in California desert - Space

The new antenna will boost capacity on NASA's increasingly strained deep-space communications network as Artemis and oth...

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In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 y - The Times of India
The Times of India Sep 06

In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 y - The Times of India

Science News: For more than a century, the Hall effect has been taught with a simple picture that electricity flows thro...

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China unveils plans to beat US in retrieving Mars samples - yahoo.com
Newsnationnow.com Sep 06

China unveils plans to beat US in retrieving Mars samples - yahoo.com

The robotic Tianwen-3 mission would travel to the Red Planet, collect 500 grams of samples and return them to Earth by 2...

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Mars has been called the Red Planet for centuries, but a 2025 study suggests its colour comes largely from ferrihydrite—an iron mineral that typically forms rapidly in cool liquid water. If the identification is correct, Mars did not rust only after becoming a desert: - spacedaily.com
Space Daily Sep 06

Mars has been called the Red Planet for centuries, but a 2025 study suggests its colour comes largely from ferrihydrite—an iron mineral that typically forms rapidly in cool liquid water. If the identification is correct, Mars did not rust only after becoming a desert: - spacedaily.com

A 2025 spectral and laboratory study points to hydrated ferrihydrite as the chief pigment in Martian dust, tying the pla...

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The case for life on Mars just got stronger. A NASA rover has found extensive organic carbon in ancient river rocks - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Skyatnightmagazine.com Sep 06

The case for life on Mars just got stronger. A NASA rover has found extensive organic carbon in ancient river rocks - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

NASA's Perseverance rover’s discovery of widespread complex carbon on Mars adds fresh clues to the hunt for past life...

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Squid Are Taking Over The Ocean – And Not For The Reason You Might Think - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert Sep 06

Squid Are Taking Over The Ocean – And Not For The Reason You Might Think - ScienceAlert

We've made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century....

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