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A team of astronomers led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have updated and confirmed…
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In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched. NASA…
This is SS 433, a microquasar first discovered forty years ago and located about 18,000…
People have long dreamed of altering the Martian climate to make it livable for humans.…
In the future, designers of micromachines can utilize a new effect. A team led by…
In the brain, when neurons fire off electrical signals to their neighbors, this happens through…
A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s…
The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the center of our…
Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an…
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The most complete skull of a duck-billed dinosaur from Big Bend National Park, Texas, is…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material…
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a way to vastly accelerate single-cell sequencing, an advance…