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A 'cosmic glitch' in the universe is forcing astronomers to rethink Einstein's theory of relativity
Scientists have found evidence that Einstein's general theory of relativity doesn't quite work in t…
Ellyn Lapointe
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4 Scientific Achievements Everyone Will Be Talking About In 2014
If 2013 was the year of the Higgs boson, then 2014 will be the year of the neutrino. The nearly mas…
Dina Spector
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Five Things We Didn't Know About The Universe Before This New Map
By studying this data we can answer deep and fundamental questions of our universe. The universe is…
Jennifer Welsh
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Here's why airline crewmembers are classified as radiation workers
To minimize exposures, crew members should try to limit working on flights that are very long, at h…
Julia Calderone
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Flying in airplanes exposes people to more radiation than standing next to a nuclear reactor - here's why
When cosmic rays strike the air, they create showers of ionizing radiation - particles that can kno…
Dave Mosher
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Mars colonists will get blasted with radiation levels 8 times higher than government limits - here's what they're up against
More radical solutions for radiation have also been proposed. Christopher Mason, a geneticist and b…
Dave Mosher,Skye Gould
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NASA telescope discovers mysterious hotspot of high-energy particles beyond our galaxy
Gamma rays and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are filling a huge area of the sky. An astronomer call…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China opens the world's deepest and largest underground laboratory 7,800 feet below a mountain to hunt for dark matter
The expansion of the China Jinping Underground Laboratory puts it ahead of Italy's sprawling dark m…
Marianne Guenot
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Nasa astronomers says signal coming from outside our galaxy is 'unexpected and as yet unexplained'
Astronomers who were looking into the creation of the universe detected an alternative signal using…
Polly Thompson
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Space tourists will probably have sex up there, but they shouldn't get pregnant, researchers warn
Virgin Galactic just flew its first tourist crew, and SpaceX has launched a few. Researchers say sp…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Physicists analyzed the earliest light in the universe and detected dark matter from 12 billion years ago
Researchers used radiation left over from the Big Bang to explore how dark matter is distributed ar…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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An experiment that reaches across the galaxy has 'heard' an invisible sea of ripples in space-time for the first time. It's surprisingly loud.
This thrum of gravitational waves is constantly pulsing through the universe. It opens a window int…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An 'ultramassive' black hole has been discovered that's 33 billion times the mass of the sun
Scientists at Durham University in the UK used the way gravity bends light at great distances to pi…
Marianne Guenot
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Webb telescope's new photo of the Tarantula Nebula caught thousands of never-before-seen baby stars
Astronomers trained three of Webb's high-resolution infrared instruments on the nebula and spotted …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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10 times NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted something Hubble missed
With its infrared gaze, the James Webb Space Telescope can capture galaxies, planets, moons, and au…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' has 2 end-credits scenes. Here's what they may mean for future Marvel movies.
Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" sequel contains two extra scenes after the movie ends. Here's wh…
Kirsten Acuna
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NASA's Artemis I moon rocket is flying through space for the first time. Meet the mannequins, Snoopy, and 'Shaun the Sheep' dolls along for the ride.
Artemis is finally on its long-awaited journey to the moon. Mannequins and mementos are hitching a …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like.
"People often talk about how we are standing on a ball (Earth) which rotates at great speed, and th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Nokia is set to build the first 4G network on the Moon for NASA — it will eventually be upgraded to 5G
Like 4G networks on Earth, the equipment deployed will support 5G in the future once upgraded. …
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The strongest evidence of the big bang was almost mistaken for pigeon droppings
"I had a lot of experience fixing practical problems in radio telescopes," Robert Wilson told Smith…