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North Sea shell survey brings out volunteers

The volunteers were sorting the various sea shells as part of a scientific survey. Hundreds of volunteers descended on the beaches of the North Sea coast this weekend to collect sea shells as a measure of the sea’s biological diversity. While there is a serious scientific purpose to the exercise, it is also a fun […]

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Two meteorites are providing a detailed look into outer space

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you’ve ever seen a shooting star, you might have actually seen a meteor on its way to Earth. Those that land here are called meteorites and can be used to peek back in time, into the far corners of outer space or at the earliest building blocks of life. Today, […]

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Scientists offer ‘non-alien explanation’ for interstellar visitor

An artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua, which in 2017 became the first interstellar object known to have entered the Earth’s solar system. When the first object ever known to have visited the Earth’s Solar System from outer space zoomed past in 2017, it was so strange that at least one leading astronomer was convinced it was […]

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5 will be lined up in night sky this week

A girl looks at the moon through a telescope in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. The best day to spot five planets, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars, lined up in the night sky is Tuesday, March 28, 2023, right after sunset. The five-planet array will be visible from anywhere on Earth, as […]

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Satellites and space junk may make dark night skies brighter, hindering astronomy and hiding stars from our view

Credit: ESA Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky. The starry night sky has not only inspired countless works of music, art and poetry, but has also played an important role in timekeeping, navigation and agricultural practices in many traditions. For many cultures, the night sky, […]

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Researchers used DNA from Beethoven’s hair to shed light on his poor health—and stumbled upon a family secret

Credit: Kevin Brown, Author provided Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples. Ludwig van Beethoven’s life was not quite as short; he was 56 when he died in 1827. Yet it was short enough […]

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New ways to measure curls and kinks could make it easier to care for natural hair

Cuticle layers that protect the hair surface are smoother, larger and further apart (left) in wavy hair than in curlier hair (right). Credit: Michelle Gaines Black women and others with curly or kinky hair encounter a vast and confusing array of haircare options. Advice on the best products to use for a certain type of […]

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What do the elements sound like?

A recent college graduate has converted the visible light given off by the elements into audio, creating unique, complex sounds for each one. Credit: W. Walker Smith and Alain Barker In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca—but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren’t the first things that come to mind […]

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Astrobiologist suggests we look for signs of life from elsewhere in the galaxy by studying space dust

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Tomonori Totani, an astrobiologist with the University of Tokyo is proposing that the search for life beyond Earth be expanded to the study of space dust. In his paper published in the journal International Journal of Astrobiology, he suggests that space dust could be harboring signs of life blasted away from […]

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Research finds dramatic changes in New Zealand river flows

Credit: Victoria University of Wellington River flows in New Zealand have changed dramatically over the past 50 to 90 years as the climate has varied, a new study has found. Marked changes in average summer and winter river flows were identified in the study, carried out by researchers at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington […]

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