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Some Antarctic ice shelves have GROWED in the past 20 years despite global warming
Parts of Antarctica have actually gained ice over the past 20 years, new research reveals, although the continent is suffering significant losses due to global warming. The researchers say sea ice, pushed against the ice shelves by a change in regional wind patterns, may have helped protect those ice shelves from loss. Ice shelves are […]
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Astronomers see a nova explosion on a white dwarf for the first time
Astronomers in Germany have spotted a fiery “nova explosion” of a white dwarf for the first time ever. Researchers observed the event, using data from the joint German-Russian eROSITA X-ray telescope, which is stationed in space about 900,000 miles away. The X-ray flash – dubbed YZ Reticuli – completely overexposed the center of eROSITA’s detector, […]
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Spacecraft crashing into an asteroid at 15,000 km/h is not a complacent NASA experience, writes TOM LEONARD
One day in late September, a box-shaped spacecraft weighing about half a ton will crash into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth at a speed of 15,000 mph, with the aim of propelling it into a new orbit. This suicide mission by a golf-cart-sized craft isn’t just a self-indulgent experiment dreamed up by NASA […]
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Spacecraft crashing into an asteroid at 15,000 km/h is not a complacent NASA experiment, writes TOM LEONARD
One day in late September, a box-shaped spacecraft weighing about half a ton will slam into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth at a speed of 15,000 mph, with the aim of propelling it into a new orbit. This suicide mission by a golf-cart-sized craft isn’t just a self-indulgent experiment dreamed up by NASA […]
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Incredibly sharp image of a nearby galaxy captured by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope
Incredibly sharp image of a nearby galaxy captured by NASA’s new $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope demonstrates a huge leap forward in space photography NASA shared side-by-side images captured by its Webb and Spitzer telescopes Both show the Large Magellanic Cloud – a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way But the Webb image captures […]
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Seasonal flu may be a direct descendant of the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’
Seasonal flu virus may be a direct descendant of the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ that caused a global pandemic and killed up to 100 million people, study finds Seasonal human flu virus ‘possibly descended from 1918 Spanish flu strain’ Based on analysis of samples collected in Europe during the 1918 pandemic Berlin researchers have revealed more […]
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Scientists Discover City-Sized Lake Beneath Antarctica
Scientists studying the underside of the world’s largest ice cap in Antarctica have discovered a lake the size of a city. The lake, called Lake Snow Eagle, sits in a mile-deep canyon in the highlands of Antarctica’s Princess Elizabeth Land, a few hundred miles from the coast. The area of the lake is approximately 370 […]