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The most promising alien signal turned out to be of natural origin

For almost half a century, scientists have been tormented by the mystery of the Wow! signal received on Earth on…

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A British teenager built the world’s first school thermonuclear reactor and produced plasma in it.

A senior student at Cardiff College in the UK created the world's first school fusion reactor, which was able to…

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Amateur astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf escaping from our galaxy

As part of NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 program, three amateur astronomers discovered a celestial body rushing out of our…

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The first subcellular 3D map of a fragment of the human brain has been built, and there is a lot of unknown there

Ten years of painstaking work have led to the world's first three-dimensional map of a fragment of the human brain…

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Rocket Lab undertakes to deliver a payload to Mars 10 times cheaper than NASA

Known for its lightweight Electron rockets, Rocket Lab promises to revolutionize space platforms. For just 1/10 the cost of NASA…

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“James Webb” made an attempt on the Hubble tension – it’s just a measurement error

The greatest cosmological mystery of our time may be the result of measurement error, say scientists led by a researcher…

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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs came from the dark and cold depths of the solar system

It is symbolic that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs came from the darkness and cold of the outskirts of…

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NASA’s Perseverance rover will perform a difficult stunt – it will climb onto the shore of a prehistoric lake

On August 19, 2024, the NASA Perseverance rover team planned to begin lifting the rover to the shore of a…

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The death of the most massive star in the entire history of tidal disruption observations has been discovered.

Scientists have reported the largest tidal disruption in recorded history by a black hole of a very massive star. Hot…

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Scientists have canceled an experiment to artificially cool the Earth with atmospheric aerosol

An article appeared in Science magazine in which scientists from Harvard University publicly refused to conduct the first scientifically based…

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