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Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics are due to blobs left behind by cosmic collision
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Temporal evolution for the viscosity (upper row) and compositional (lower row) field of the 3D reference case showing LLSVP-sourced plume-induced subduction initiation. ...
Researchers build new device that is a foundation for quantum computing
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Schematics of the nonreciprocal device, with its circulator (center), qubit port, superconducting cavity, and output port. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj8796 ...
Fastest-spinning asteroid recently hit Earth’s atmosphere and crashed in Berlin
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Scientists have found that an asteroid which crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning at the highest rate ever known, ...
Scientists solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon’s ‘lopsided’ geology
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Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings ...
Fossil unearthed in New Zealand contains the largest fossil crab claw ever found
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Pseudocarcinus karlraubenheimeri n. sp., A, holotype, NMNZ CR.027704, showing dorsal carapace, thoracic sternum and major right cheliped (male); B, detail of right ...
Where will you be for the April 8 total solar eclipse? There’s still time to grab a spot
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People gather near Redmond, Ore., to view the sun as it nears a total eclipse by the moon, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. ...
Astronomers detect an extremely red supermassive black hole in the early universe growing in the shadows
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Analyzing images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a group of astronomers led by Dr. Lukas Furtak ...
Neanderthals’ usage of complex adhesives reveals higher cognitive abilities, scientists discover
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The stone tool was glued into a handle made of liquid bitumen with the addition of 55% ocher. It is no longer ...
Passing stars altered orbital evolution of Earth and other planets, astronomers find
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Illustration of the uncertainty of Earth’s orbit 56 million years ago due to a potential past passage of the Sun-like star HD7977 ...
Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time
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Using data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered, for the first time, water molecules ...
