The Fall Equinox arrives this Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. ET (1:30 pm UTC). Although not the best time to balance eggs (that’s the story of older wives), the Northern Hemisphere has autumn, cold temperatures, and short days that make up about 90 percent of the Earth’s population. For the Southern …
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The world’s most advanced telescopes weren’t built for today’s temperatures, and they mess with our observations of the night sky. Three decades of value data – the home of the Paranal Observatory (the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (VLT)) in northern Chile – reveals many ways in which climate …
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Two experiments with subtle slogans that prevent entire galaxies from flying together have recently published some conflicting results. One came empty handed, while the other gives us every reason to keep searching. Dark bosons are candidates for dark matter based on force-carrying particles that do not actually pack more force. …
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Scientists call it the Doomsday Glacier. That’s partly because Britain-sized glacier whites in West Antarctica are melting at an alarming rate: retreating by about half a mile (2,625 feet) each year. Scientists estimate that glaciers will lose their ice in about 200 to 600 years. When that happens, it will …
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With the Kovid-19 epidemic coming after the wave in many parts of the world, researchers have given a new look at the tiny coronavirus responsible for the massive chaos. Each SARS-Co-2 virus particle – virion – is a speckled protein ball, enclosing the genetic material, about 50-200 nanometers wide. Somehow, …
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