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The image captures the formation of a planet around PDS 70, a dwarf star...
Credit: ESO/A. Müller et alAn international team of astronomers has released the first image ever captured of a planet being born in deep space. The image, captured with advanced, surface-based...
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Seeker's Bad Science podcast explores the surprisingly complex scientific...
In 2008, Pixar Animation Studios released the sci-fi parable WALL-E, considered by many genre connoisseurs to be among the very best computer-animated films ever made. Besides being funny and visually...
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A pulsar orbited by a white dwarf star, which are both orbited by another...
Credit: ASTRONA crucial part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is based on a principle called the universality of free fall, which means that all falling objects accelerate identically,...
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Seeker's Bad Science podcast explores the marine biology behind Pixar's...
Pixar's 2003 classic Finding Nemo is a notorious tearjerker. The computer-animated film, which tells the tale of a lost little clownfish and his father's quest to find him, has earned its place in the...
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Elevated CO2 levels in the atmosphere could be reducing the medicinal...
Credit: Austin Thomason/Michigan PhotographyA troubling ecology study published this week contains some bad news for monarch butterflies … and maybe humans, too. According to new research conducted at...
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The water conservation technology appears less sustainable than previously...
Credit: Sandi Hemmerlein/AvoidingRegret.comA new research paper published today in the journal Nature Sustainability throws some shade on a famous — well, relatively famous — water conservation...
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A leading researcher suggests the Red Planet’s harsh atmosphere means its...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSIf we're looking for life on Mars, start underground. That's the exhortation from a leading researcher who recently led a paper on organics compounds on Mars. Organic...
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Among the moons is Valetudo, which appears to have smashed into several of...
Credit: Roberto Molar-Candanosa, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science.A newly discovered moon around Jupiter — spotted traveling in a strange orbit — likely crashed into some of the gas...
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Decades of high-resolution imagery now provide NASA scientists with a...
Credit: NASA via Getty ImagesWhen humans next set foot on the moon, they'll have a special spacecraft guiding their steps. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has a high-resolution camera that takes...
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New radar observations show a potentially massive source of liquid water...
Credit: ESA, INAF. Graphic rendering by Davide Coero Borga, Media INAFNew radar observations from a spacecraft orbiting Mars suggest water deposits lurking under the planet's south pole. But whether...
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Possible traces of life may lie just centimeters below the moon’s icy surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute Finding life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might not be as difficult as previously thought. Europa has been one of the top contenders for extraterrestrial life,...
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Seeker’s Bad Science podcast examines the efficacy of nuking a Texas-size...
An asteroid the size of Texas is plunging toward Earth, heralded by a barrage of meteors that rip the crown off the Chrysler building and smash Paris and Shanghai as well. In a desperate effort to save...
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Severe storms have disrupted the long-distance swimmer's progress, but...
Credit: Seeker MediaBecoming the first man to swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco was never going to be easy. Over the past two months of this perilous campaign for ocean...
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The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said, despite recent research findings, that enough...
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScIOur dreams of making Mars habitable for humans might have to wait a while. The Red Planet lacks sufficient sources of carbon dioxide to make the planet more Earth-like...
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Seeker’s Bad Science podcast examines James Cameron’s deep-sea classic The...
The water’s not so fine in The Abyss. A close encounter with a mysterious force sends an American missile submarine plunging into a rift in the Caribbean Sea floor. An experimental undersea drilling...
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Seeker’s Bad Science podcast examines the 2011 hit film starring Bradley Cooper.
Dumped by his girlfriend, behind on his rent, struggling to finish his novel, writer Eddie Morra gets a break in the form of a pill that lets him put more of his brain to work. His newfound abilities...
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Of the thousands of known exoplanets, Kepler-452b has the most ideal...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Scientists have been hard at work the past several years identifying potentially habitable exoplanets. There is the rocky world found around Proxima Centauri. Then...
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The microgravity of space provides an ideal setting for experiments on bone...
Every three seconds, a person somewhere in the world breaks a bone due to osteoporosis — a progressive disease that decreases bone density, making bones weak and fragile. Osteoporotic fractures greatly...
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Pumping aerosols into the atmosphere might reduce incoming solar radiation,...
Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesTough news from the stratosphere this week: A new analysis of climate change effects suggests that even our Plan B option for heading off catastrophic climate...
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Researchers may have finally solved the debate over how the first Americans...
Credit: Potter et al., Sci. Adv. 2018;4: eaat5473An ambitious new cross-disciplinary study promises to at least partially resolve a long-running debate in science. Did the first Americans arrive via...
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