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A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses…
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress…
Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute…
“Sunrise crashes an aurora party over the southern hemisphere,” said astronaut Ricky Arnold of the…
Searching the entire genome, a Yale research team has identified a gene that when eliminated…
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A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped…
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Black holes in dense stellar clusters could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything…