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Quick radio burst For the past five years, researchers have been closely following a strange radio signal from deep space. Astronomers refer to these surprising signals as “fast radio bursts”, as FRBs. They are pulses of radio waves that last only fractions of a second – and to this day, …

A seedling used in the study. Credit: UGA The first few weeks of a tree’s life can be the worst. As it pushes thin new roots into the soil, it also touches small new leaves. Water and energy are precious. Most seedlings never make it through their first month on …

Throwing in two important specimens: Paranthropus aethiopicus (left) and P. boisei (right) Credit: Zeresenay Alemseged A new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents dietary changes in herbivores that lived between 1-3 million years ago in the Lower Omo Valley of Ethiopia. …

Representative image of a Galaxy. (ESA / Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko, R. Jansen) Scientists from the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune have discovered one of the first galaxies in the universe, about 9.3 billion light-years from Earth. The breakthrough discovery, published on Monday, was made using …

At the end of the Universe, long after the last shining stars flickered, there could be one last explosion. Named black dwarf supernovae, these dazzling explosions will announce in the eternal darkness as the Universe falls asleep, a new study suggests. These newly proposed supernovae are a special race that …