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NASA spots 16 'Death Star' black holes blasting powerful beams at multiple targets

Researchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have found that a group of "Death Star black holes are swiveling around and pointing at new targets, like the fictional space station in Star Wars."

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32 stunning photos of auroras seen from space

Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these natural light shows look even more majestic from above. Here are 32 spectacular photos of auroras taken from space.

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What's the highest place on Earth that humans live?

Inhabitants of the world's highest settlement, La Rinconada, in the Peruvian Andes, face a unique set of challenges.

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Parasitic worms infect 6 after bear meat served at family reunion

Parasitic worms infected a family who'd shared a meal that included undercooked bear meat kabobs.

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Google's AI tells users to add glue to their pizza, eat rocks and make chlorine gas

Social media has been flooded with bizarre and dangerous advice that appears to have been made by Google's new AI overview feature. The company continues to defend the 'high quality' search tool.

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No, a 'planetary parade' will not be visible from Earth on June 3. Here's what you can really see.

Despite a flurry of online reports about a "planetary parade" of six worlds aligning on June 3, only two planets will be clearly visible from Earth. (And they've been visible all month.)

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In a 1st, scientist grow mini brains with functional blood-brain barriers

New "assembloids" grown from stem cells offer a tiny, working model of the blood-brain barrier.

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Crows can count out loud, startling study reveals

This is the first time an animal other than humans has been seen performing the feat of vocal numeracy.

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China's 'heavenly pits': The giant sinkholes that have ancient forests growing within

China's southwestern karst landscape is pockmarked with dozens of enormous sinkholes that look like they were made with a cookie cutter — and scientists keep finding new ones.

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DeepMind's AI program AlphaFold3 can predict the structure of every protein in the universe — and show how they function

AlphaFold3 uses AI to helps scientists more accurately predict how proteins interact with other biological molecules.

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Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time

Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star it destroyed.

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Mysterious 'puffy' planet may finally be explained by James Webb Space Telescope

The exoplanet WASP-107 b is one of the least dense planets ever discovered. New James Webb telescope observations may reveal how the mysterious world got so 'puffy'.

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This year's hurricane season could see 25 named storms, NOAA says in record-breaking forecast

Unusually high temperatures combined with the abatement of the El Niño could lead to more major hurricanes this year.

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Grave robbers looted lavish 1,800-year-old tombs in China — but missed this one

Archaeologists think the people in the tombs, dated to the Han dynasty, were all from the same wealthy family.

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'Manhattanhenge' returns: Where and when to see the sun 'kiss the grid' in New York next week

The Instagram-worthy alignment of the setting sun and the streets of Manhattan is about to begin again. The annual spectacle is caused by New York City's gridiron layout.

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Alaska's rivers are turning bright orange and as acidic as vinegar as toxic metal escapes from melting permafrost

Alaska's melting permafrost is dumping toxic metals into the state's rivers, turning them bright orange and making the water highly acidic. The contaminated rivers are so vibrant they can be seen from space, and the problem is likely to get much worse in the future.

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Scientists just discovered an enormous lithium reservoir under Pennsylvania

The new source of lithium, which could meet up to 40% of U.S. demand, was discovered in fracking wastewater.

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Euclid space telescope reveals more than 300,000 new objects in 1st 24 hours of observations (photos)

The Euclid space telescope has released five mesmerizing new photos of our universe, kicking off a six-year campaign to unveil the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and other cosmological mysteries.

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'Master of deception': Current AI models already have the capacity to expertly manipulate and deceive humans

Large language models (LLMs) have mastered the art of deception when competing with humans in games, but scientists warn these skills can also spill out into other domains.

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Metal detectorists unearth 300-year-old coin stash hidden by legendary Polish con man

Metal detectorists have unearthed a cache of gold and silver coins hidden in a mountain range in Poland that once belonged to a legendary con artist.

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H5N1 bird flu has spread to human from cow in 2nd probable case, CDC reports

A dairy worker in Michigan contracted an eye infection on a dairy farm where H5N1 had been identified in cows.

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Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguise

Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos.

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Ancient Mycenaean armor is so good, it protected users in an 11-hour battle simulation inspired by the Trojan War

Researchers recruited volunteers from the Hellenic Armed Forces to test the strength of replicas of 3,500-year-old body armor.

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Scientists discover the possible origin of the sun's magnetic field, and it's not where they thought it was

New simulations suggest that the origins of the sun's explosive storms could lie much closer to its surface than first thought.

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'We'll be studying this event for years': Recent auroras may have been the strongest in 500 years, NASA says

Vibrant auroras that were recently observed by millions of people across the globe were some of the most widespread in the last five centuries, NASA says. The light shows may have also reached the equator.

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