Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours

An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe. It hints that conditions were not the same everywhere when the first stars forged ... Read More

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Stellar Winds of Three Sun-Like Stars Detected for the First Time Apr. 12, 2024 — An international research team has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars ... Read More

Scientist Says Universe Is Actually Exploding

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Apr. 22, 2024 — Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive ... New Butterfly Species ... Read More

Team including Northwestern scientists detect waves caused by merger of neutron star, mystery object

The researchers first said the less massive of the two objects was likely a neutron star, while the more massive of the two was likely a black hole. But scientists ... said in a news release. Read More

SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent

Webby Awards One of the world's foremost experts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) believes that with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, humans are closer to discovering ... Read More

Scientists detect signal from collision 650 million light years away

GW230529, detected in May 2023, marks the first observation of a gravitational wave involving a mass-gap object and a neutron star, challenging existing assumptions and sparking excitement in the ... Read More

Scientists made implantable batteries that are powered by your body’s oxygen

However, a newly designed oxygen battery could remove the need for ... This is, of course, great news, as those chemical reactions could have terrible effects on the body if the body couldn ... Read More

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What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Scientists studying critically endangered lemurs in Madagascar confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks ... Read More

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Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the ... Hello, stakeholders. (This is the nongendered term of address I've been workshopping because I ... Read More

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