A team of researchers with the Raman Research Institute in India has attempted to replicate the results of the EDGES experiment conducted four years ago, where a team in Australia claimed to have found evidence of the cosmic ...
The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its formation. In a recent study published today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from ...
Astronomy
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All through history, humans have created and shared stories that ponder the creation of stars—what they are and how the first stars came to be. Now, with new results from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), ...
Astronomy
Feb 11, 2022
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Thanks to the most advanced telescopes, astronomers today can see what objects looked like 13 billion years ago, roughly 800 million years after the Big Bang. Unfortunately, they are still unable to pierce the veil of the ...
Astronomy
Sep 15, 2021
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To describe something as slow and boring we say it's "like watching grass grow", but scientists studying the early morning activity of plants have found they make a rapid start to their day—within minutes of dawn.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 7, 2021
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Larger bumblebees are more likely to go out foraging in the low light of dawn, new research shows.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft gave scientists extraordinary close-up views of the dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. By the time the mission ended in October 2018, the orbiter had ...
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2020
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Our current understanding of physics suggests that there are two main types of matter in the universe known as dark and baryonic matter. Dark matter is made up of material that scientists cannot directly observe, as it does ...
This image, based on observations from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the largest mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres.
Space Exploration
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain has found evidence that suggests the dwarf planet Ceres is experiencing wrinkling on its surface. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, ...
