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Trio of 'black mesas' leftover from Paleozoic era spawn rare sand dunes in the Sahara — Earth from space

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The structures are remnants of a single Paleozoic era formation, and have helped to create a series of striking sand dunes.

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Science history: Computer scientist lays out 'Moore's law,' guiding chip design for a half century — Dec. 2, 1964

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become "Moore's law, which would govern the electronics industry for a half century.

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An extra solar system planet once orbited next to Earth — and it may be the reason we have a moon

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals.

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is erupting in 'ice volcanoes', new images suggest

Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS — giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

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Russia accidentally destroys its only working launch pad as astronauts lift off to ISS

The recent launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station has caused significant damage to Russia's only launch pad capable of sending humans into space.

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Your AI-generated image of a cat riding a banana exists because of children clawing through the dirt for toxic elements. Is it really worth it?

LLMs like Chat GPT come with major social costs — including child labor — that we can't ignore. Do we really need progress that's built on the suffering of others?

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Once-in-a-century floods set to become annual events in northeastern US in the next 75 years, study finds

Rising sea levels and storm surges from hurricanes will bring more frequent extreme floods to northeastern U.S. states, including Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

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Roman sun hat: A 'very rare' 1,600-year-old brimmed cap that may have protected a Roman soldier from Egyptian sandstorms

A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.

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Scientists mapped the shape of a supernova for the first time ever – and it's not what we expected: Space photo of the week

Astronomers using data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the initial "breakout" phase of a supernova is elongated, not perfectly spherical.

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What's the difference between a newt and a salamander?

Salamanders and newts are both long-tailed amphibians, but what's the difference between them?

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'No easy explanation': Scientists are debating a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light

Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper's conclusion.

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Do your dreams change as you age?

A young child's dreams and an elderly hospice patient's dreams can be very different. What has research found about how our dreams change over time?

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Modern humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago and may have interbred with archaic humans such as 'hobbits'

New genetic research shows that DNA and archaeological evidence align with the "long chronology" of the peopling of Australia.

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Climate change is real. It's happening. And it's time to make it personal.

We found the psychological impetus people need to take action on climate change — realizing it will affect them and their way of life personally.

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Scientists pull up first riches from 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks' that sank off Colombia in 1708

The shipwreck is considered to be one of the richest in the world and has rested at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea since 1708.

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Science history: Astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers a signal of 'little green men,' but her adviser gets the Nobel Prize — Nov. 28, 1967

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio pulsar. The signal, once described as coming from "little green men," would earn her adviser the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974.

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Did a NASA telescope really 'see' dark matter? Strange gamma-rays spark bold claims, but scientists urge caution

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result.

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100,000 mph 'comet fragment' explodes in green fireball over Great Lakes, eerie videos show

A fireball lit up the skies over the Great Lakes in the early hours of Sunday and was visible for hundreds of miles.

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People in China lived alongside 'chicken-killing tigers' long before domestic cats arrived

Leopard cats were living alongside people in ancient China for more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived from Europe via the Silk Road.

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Decades-long droughts doomed one of the world's oldest civilizations

A series of lengthy droughts brought about the fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, a new study finds.

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Shrinking tree canopy at California schools could put kids at risk of extreme heat

A recent study examined changes in tree canopy cover around California schools. The observed declines could put kids at higher risk of heat stress.

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Experts divided over claim that Chinese hackers launched world-first AI-powered cyber attack — but that's not what they're really worried about

Anthropic said a Chinese espionage group used its Claude AI to automate most of a cyberattack campaign, but experts question how autonomous the operation really was, and what it means for the future of AI-powered hacking.

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Large, bone-crushing dogs stalked 'Rhino Pompeii' after Yellowstone eruption 12 million years ago, ancient footprints reveal

Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern Nebraska, suggesting these large carnivores may have survived a cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption that covered parts of North America in ash.

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Bizarre, UFO-like halo of red light appears over small Italian town — for the second time in 3 years

An eerie new photo shows a giant red ring shining above Possagno, near the Italian Alps. The eye-catching image is almost identical to one taken in the same town in early 2023.

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New semiconductor could allow classical and quantum computing on the same chip, thanks to superconductivity breakthrough

Researchers believe they can fit 25 million Josephson junctions — a useful component for quantum computing — on one two-inch wafer with this approach.

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