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Terrence O'Brien

NASA confirms exploding meteor caused the sonic boom over Boston - The Verge

The boom could be heard across several states and shook houses.

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Margaret

the hummingbird-red flower connection, with harvard’s patrick mckenzie - A Way To Garden

IF YOU’VE EVER posted a photo on the massive community science project called iNaturalist and wondered how such contributions get used in research... well, today’s guest is here to tell us about one especially stunning

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Stav Dimitropoulos

You’re an ‘Avatar in a VR Game,’ Scientist Claims—Meaning Reality Isn’t What It Seems - Yahoo

Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics may point the same way.

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Shreejaya Karantha

JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules - Phys.org

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The new paper was submitted to the preprint server arXiv on May 14.

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Michelle Starr

Strange Event Might Have Been A Primordial Black Hole Winking At Us - ScienceAlert

In 2019, astronomers recorded a distant star doing something unexpected.

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The Moon is stealing time from the Earth, and it has been getting away with it for billions of years. Our planet spins so much slower than it once did that a single day has stretched from just 19 hours to the 24 we live by, and the Moon is still creeping away from u - Space Daily

Earth’s spin is slowing, the day is getting longer, and the Moon is drifting outward at about 3.8 centimetres a year, a figure measured by bouncing lasers off the reflectors the Apollo missions left on the surface. Two things in the popular telling are worth …

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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. A major global estimate put the planet’s tree count at about three trillion, while NASA gives the Milky Way’s star count as roughly 100 to 400 billion. - Space Daily

The most cited global estimate puts the number of trees on Earth at about three trillion. NASA gives the Milky Way somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars. Three trillion is more than seven times the high end of that range, so there are indeed more trees …

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The bootprints left by the Apollo astronauts will still be sitting on the Moon a million years from now, because there is no wind and no rain to wear them away. - Space Daily

The claim is true, and a million years is plausible, though not guaranteed for every individual print. The Apollo tracks, first pressed into the lunar surface in 1969, will almost certainly still be visible in some form a million years from now. There is no w…

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Christina Burkhart

Clear skies give Metro Detroit perfect Blue Moon viewing weather - ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4

Southeast Michigan will continue to stay generally clear and dry as temperatures gradually warm this upcoming week.

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A single bolt of lightning can heat the air around it to roughly five times the temperature of the surface of the Sun, and it is the violent expansion of that superheated air that creates the crack of thunder. - Space Daily

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts the temperature of a lightning channel at about 30,000 degrees Celsius, and states plainly that this is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the Sun, which sits near 5,500 degrees. The rapid…

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Joshua Shavit, Rebecca Shavit

Scientists find hundreds of inherited DNA patterns that defy classic Mendelian genetics - The Brighter Side of News

Mouse study finds hundreds of inherited DNA methylation patterns that do not follow classic Mendelian genetics.

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Neuroscience News

Dopamine Locks in Stress-Induced Sexual Dysfunction - Neuroscience News

Dopamine in the mushroom body of fruit flies controls the persistence of stress-induced courtship suppression.

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Brooklyn Smith

Reported ancient mammoth bones found deep in Alaska were actually whales from 250 miles away - Yahoo

Once scientists inspected the bones more thoroughly, they realized what they actually were.

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The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet's history, wiping out the vast majority of spec - Space Daily

Roughly 2.4 billion years ago, the atmosphere of the Earth underwent the most consequential chemical change in the planet’s history. Free oxygen, a gas that had been present only in trace amounts for the previous two billion years, began accumulating in the a…

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There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world's oceans combined — and if you marked every atom in one glass, dumped it into the sea, and waited for the oceans to mix completely, every glass of water on Earth - Space Daily

The arithmetic is one of the oldest and most reliable demonstrations in physics, and the conclusion is one of the harder facts about the size of atoms to actually believe. A standard 250-millilitre glass of water contains roughly 25 trillion trillion atoms, w…

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