Pop star Katy Perry is set to "shoot across the sky" this spring when she lifts off as part of a six-member, all-female crew on Blue Origin's next space flight, the company announced Thursday.
Space Exploration
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Ryan Wellings has been jailed for more than six years after the death of his partner Kiena Dawes. Wellings was convicted of assault and coercive and controlling behavior, having abused Dawes repeatedly throughout their relationship.
Social Sciences
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Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't see is a swarm of nearly ...
Astronomy
Feb 27, 2025
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Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our atmosphere contains plenty of nitrogen, neither humans nor the vast majority of plants can absorb it directly ...
Astrobiology
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As I wander around Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a tree called the Wollemi pine often catches my eye. It's one of our rarest trees, and a distinctive looking pine, with broad needles and bark that reminds you of Coco ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2025
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Adapting to climate change is becoming more and more urgent. It is clear that climate risk cannot be managed by technical interventions alone.
Environment
Feb 27, 2025
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Researchers from the University of Padua in Italy found a juniper at Utsjoki in Finnish Lapland, which they analyzed to be 1,647 years old by examining the annual rings. The paper is published in the journal Ecology.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2025
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Millions of kilograms of toxic pollutants, over 17,000 deaths annually and environmental laws that aren't being diligently enforced. This is the troubling picture that emerged when we, a group of environmental researchers, ...
Environment
Feb 27, 2025
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Conservation strategies are turning back the doomsday clock in threatened Florida-Scrub Jays—but not without caveats, a new study published in Current Biology shows.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2025
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A research team has developed an innovative nanomotor-based strategy to improve immunotherapy for bladder cancer. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, offers a promising alternative to the limitations ...
Bio & Medicine
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