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18 hours ago

New astronomy exhibit showcases early glass slides | Cornell Chronicle

The lantern slides are transparent photographs or paintings on glass plates designed to be projected onto a screen using an early slide projector. They were sitting in three plastic tubs in a Fuertes office.
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fromNature
18 hours ago

AI needs solid botanical data more than ever

The disappearance of specialized botany programs threatens biodiversity research and the effectiveness of AI in biotechnology.
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fromNature
18 hours ago

The air is full of DNA - here's what scientists are using it for

Airborne DNA is a new frontier for studying ecosystems, monitoring species, and assessing conservation efforts.
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from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

Redwire CEO: Our 11 Cameras Capture Artemis II Imagery and Monitor Spacecraft Systems

Redwire's cameras on the Orion spacecraft are essential for capturing imagery and monitoring systems during the Artemis II mission.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
6 days ago

From the nighttime lights of the rich to the blackouts caused by crises, this is how satellites capture the heartbeat of society'

Light pollution is increasing globally, but some regions are experiencing a decrease due to crises or effective environmental policies.
Digital life
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Google Maps can now write captions for your photos using AI | TechCrunch

Google introduces new features for Maps to enhance user contributions, including caption generation and improved media access.
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fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

Gallery: Nasa releases images of earthset taken by crew on Artemis moon mission

The Artemis II crew captured stunning images of Earthset from the Orion spacecraft during a flyby of the Moon.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 week ago

NASA releases new 'Earthset' and eclipse images taken during historic flyby of the moon

The Artemis II mission successfully completed a lunar flyby, breaking distance records and providing unique views of the moon and solar eclipse.
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fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

Gallery: Nasa releases images of earthset taken by crew on Artemis moon mission

The Artemis II crew captured stunning images of Earthset from the Orion spacecraft during a flyby of the Moon.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 week ago

NASA releases new 'Earthset' and eclipse images taken during historic flyby of the moon

The Artemis II mission successfully completed a lunar flyby, breaking distance records and providing unique views of the moon and solar eclipse.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 week ago

60Hz Thermal and 4K Night Vision in One Device. SpectraEyes Basically Gives You Superman's Vision - Yanko Design

The core innovation lives in what SpectraEyes calls the Real-Time Dual-Screen Synchronization System. Rather than attempting to merge thermal and night vision into a single confused image, the optics route each feed to its own dedicated 1280×720 LCD screen inside the binocular housing.
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fromMail Online
6 days ago
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Revealed: The 10 things you DIDN'T see in NASA's new 'Earthset' photo

The Artemis II crew captured a stunning 'Earthset' image of Earth over the lunar surface during their six-hour lunar flyby.
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago
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NASA scientist backs evidence of non-human intelligence in our skies

A former NASA scientist confirmed mysterious sky flashes linked to early nuclear tests, supporting findings from a previous study by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel.
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fromMail Online
6 days ago

Revealed: The 10 things you DIDN'T see in NASA's new 'Earthset' photo

The Artemis II crew captured a stunning 'Earthset' image of Earth over the lunar surface during their six-hour lunar flyby.
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fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

NASA scientist backs evidence of non-human intelligence in our skies

A former NASA scientist confirmed mysterious sky flashes linked to early nuclear tests, supporting findings from a previous study by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel.
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fromForbes
2 weeks ago

The New Frontier Of GEO Demands An Integrated Approach

AI has transformed search optimization, requiring a unified approach across departments to enhance brand visibility and trustworthiness.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 days ago

The world's deepest sensors will detect earthquakes around the world from far below Antarctica

Scientists installed the world's deepest seismometers, 8,000 feet under Antarctic ice, to record global earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

See it: Air temperatures and pollution around the world are captured in real time in these animated weather maps

We created Earth in Action to provide a lens into what's happening on our planet, as it happens. Whether it's something typical, like the current air temperature, or an extreme event like a major dust storm, we wanted to provide an opportunity for people to see them.
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fromNextgov.com
1 week ago

Citizen Science Month 2026 is about more than just stargazing

Citizen Science Month is built around a goal of 2.5 million 'Acts of Science,' tying the annual event to America's 250th birthday through a simple but powerful idea: lots of small contributions can add up to something really meaningful.
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fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Creativity of Science: How We Discover New Things

Psychological research requires creativity to design studies, develop explanations, and provide practical recommendations.
fromFlowingData
3 weeks ago

Mapping the unmapped Google Maps city

In North Oaks, Minnesota, property lines extend to the middle of the street, which means the entire city is considered private property.
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fromNature
3 weeks ago

How I squeeze fresh science from public data

Utilizing existing data can lead to significant discoveries and collaborations in research.
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry - Nature

Along coastlines, where tides are typically magnified, they profoundly affect navigation, commerce, coastal flooding, water properties and sediment transport. Tides impact the flooding of rivers and, thus, influence the extent of their floodplain, which has cascading effects on biogeochemical and ecological processes.
Environment
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fromMail Online
1 week ago

Launching 50,000 mirrors into space will 'significantly' disrupt sleep

Launching 50,000 mirrors into space for sunlight could disrupt sleep and ecosystems on a planetary scale.
Business intelligence
fromInfoWorld
4 weeks ago

Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer

Microsoft's Planetary Computer provides free geospatial data from multiple sources with standardized APIs for environmental research and analysis applications.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say

Deployment of reflective satellites could disrupt ecosystems and human health by altering natural night-time light environments.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 weeks ago

New book shows why physical maps have an important role to play in our digital world

A cartography professor discovered 96 historically significant maps in a forgotten university archive, revealing cartography's vital role in preserving sociopolitical memory and demonstrating maps' importance beyond navigation.
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fromBig Think
3 weeks ago

Simply looking up inspires scientific exploration

The night sky inspires wonder, but light pollution and satellites hinder our view of the cosmos and its mysteries.
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fromJezebel
3 weeks ago
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Non-Earth News: Fossil Stars, an Asteroid Dripping With DNA, and 2 Dueling Planets

Astronomy news offers a refreshing escape from overwhelming current events, inspiring curiosity about the universe's vastness and history.
fromFuturism
2 months ago
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AI Discovers Hundreds of Anomalies in Archive of Hubble Images

A custom AI tool scanned Hubble archives and rapidly detected over 1,300 astrophysical anomalies, many previously undocumented, including galactic mergers and jellyfish galaxies.
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fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

Non-Earth News: Fossil Stars, an Asteroid Dripping With DNA, and 2 Dueling Planets

Astronomy news offers a refreshing escape from overwhelming current events, inspiring curiosity about the universe's vastness and history.
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fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon

Satellite infrastructure in the Gulf is increasingly contested, affecting the reliability of information during conflicts.
fromNature
1 month ago

Merlin: a computed tomography vision-language foundation model and dataset - Nature

The large volume of abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans coupled with the shortage of radiologists have intensified the need for automated medical image analysis tools. Previous state-of-the-art approaches for automated analysis leverage vision-language models (VLMs) that jointly model images and radiology reports.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

EntoPedia magnetic camera turns insect encounters into digital specimens without capture

EntoPedia is a wearable digital collection system designed by Junfei Teng to reframe insect 'collecting' as documentation, turning everyday encounters into moments of observation, learning, and shared knowledge without physical capture. The project received the 2026 French Design Awards Gold (Professional) in Product Design, Educational Toys & Games, recognizing its approach to ecological education through wearable interaction and community-built datasets.
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fromNature
1 month ago

A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor - Nature

Across various fields, from spatial mapping for reconnaissance and construction to facial recognition, virtual and augmented reality and autonomous driving, accurate 3D representation of dynamically evolving environments is paramount for safe human-machine interaction. Therefore, substantial research efforts are directed towards developing a cost-effective, high-performance and scalable 3D imaging sensor comparable with a CMOS camera.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Photographers documented the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ramadan in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Odesa, and severe flooding in France.
fromAeon
2 months ago

There's a gentle artistry to a museum taxidermist's craft | Aeon Videos

This short captures Tim Bovard, the staff taxidermist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, as he reflects on over five decades spent perfecting his craft. Sparked by a childhood fascination with the museum's dioramas that never faded, Bovard has devoted his career to shaping what he calls the 'illusion of life' - a process that requires both scientific precision and imaginative interpretation.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

NASA unveils dazzling new images of the Cat's Eye Nebula'

Hubble and Euclid space telescopes captured unprecedented detail of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing complex structures including concentric shells and gas jets from a dying star system.
fromFast Company
1 month ago

This AI-powered machine turns photos into smells

One scientist at MIT, Cyrus Clarke, is working to do just that. Alongside a team of fellow researchers, Clarke has developed a physical machine called the Anemoia Device, which uses a generative AI model to analyze an archival photograph, describe it in a short sentence, and, following the user's own inputs, convert that description into a unique fragrance. The word "anemoia" was coined by author John Koenig and included in his 2021 book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
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Environment
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago

Harnessing AI, Scientists Discover a Rise in Floating Algae Across the Global Ocean

Floating algae blooms have increased globally since about 2008–2010, driven by warming oceans, changing currents, and nutrient pollution, with coastal ecological and economic harms.
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fromNature
1 month ago

Multimodal electron microscopy of halide perovskite interfacial dynamics - Nature

Halide perovskite LEDs suffer rapid operational degradation due to ion migration and interfacial electrochemical reactions, requiring atomic-scale in situ imaging to understand degradation mechanisms and improve device stability.
Medicine
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

This may be the grossest eye pic ever-but the cause is what's truly horrifying

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae causes aggressive, metastatic infections in healthy people, forming liver abscesses and spreading via bloodstream to lungs, brain, eye, and other tissues.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The brutal crackdown in Iran, ICE in Minneapolis, Russian aistrikes in Kyiv and heavy rain in Gaza the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalists
World news
fromNature
2 months ago

What my cave stay taught me about sensors

To capture the biological impact of this extreme environment, I used a comprehensive suite of sensors and biomarker analyses. I wore a wireless electroencephalograph (EEG) system to monitor brain activity, sleep stages and neural signatures of stress and adaptation; the Oura Ring to continuously track sleep patterns, heart-rate variability and circadian-rhythm shifts; and the glucose monitor to follow metabolic responses in real time.
Wearables
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

This system is truly extraordinary. We're seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. Fundamentally, masers and lasers are focused beams of light in the same frequency. In the realm of astrophysics, these can arise from clouds of dust being excited into a higher energy state from the light emitted by other sources, like stars and black holes.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Global photojournalists documented ICE operations, Russian airstrikes, protests in Greenland and Sakhnin, and the Africa Cup of Nations final in Rabat last week.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Eerie brain-like nebula captured in stunning new JWST images

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of the Exposed Cranium nebula, a dying star 5,000 light-years away shedding layers of gas and dust in a brain-like formation.
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Aliens could be CATAPULTED onto Earth via an asteroid, study claims

We found that life is more likely to survive an asteroid impact, so it's definitely still a real possibility that life on Earth could have come from Mars. Maybe we're Martians! The idea that life could have spread through the solar system or even the universe on rocks is known as the lithopanspermia hypothesis.
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fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Scientists let AI loose on Hubble's archives

AI scanned Hubble's archives to find hundreds of astrophysical anomalies, revealing nearly 1,400 unusual objects including many previously undocumented.
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fromBig Think
2 months ago

Yes, one image from space can change humanity's perspective

Astronomical images transformed human perspective by revealing a vast, comprehensible universe in which Earth is neither cosmically central nor uniquely designed for humanity.
#hubble-space-telescope
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fromNature
2 months ago

'Remote controlled' proteins illuminate living cells

Engineered magnetically sensitive fluorescent proteins enable remote modulation of brightness in cells and animals, offering quantum-based control for biosensors and potential therapies.
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fromMail Online
2 months ago

See dark matter like NEVER before in stunning NASA image

James Webb's high-precision dark-matter map shows dark matter forms a gravitational framework guiding galaxy and planet formation, overlapping with normal matter.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form

It's a plant! It's a fungus! It's... an entirely new type of lifeform hitherto unknown to science? That appears to be the case for a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived over 400 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances. After analyzing its internal structures, the authors argue that the mystifying ancient beings known as prototaxites don't belong to any of the existing biological kingdoms.
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fromTheregister
2 months ago

MIT scientists move structural color beyond the lab

A handheld laser system called MorphoChrome paints programmable iridescent structural colors onto holographic photopolymer film for integration into flexible and rigid objects.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Life's evil twins, called mirror cells, could wipe us out if scientists don't stop them

Engineered mirror-image bacteria used to manufacture durable drugs can evade immune detection and cause uncontrollable infections and environmental spread.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The technology that reveals what happens in 0.00000000000000000000001 second

Attosecond-scale light pulses reveal ultrafast electron dynamics, enabling new studies of materials, quantum processes, and biological structures, and have earned major scientific awards.
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse

"Granted, "[p]lants have extensive and well established mechanisms of communication, with that of volatiles being the most well studied and understood," he added. "There is also growing recognition that root exudates play a role in plant-plant interactions, though this is only now being deeply investigated. Nothing else, communication through mychorriza, has withstood independent investigation."
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fromNature
2 months ago

'It means I can sleep at night': how sensors are helping to solve scientists' problems

In fact, Stawicki was on a mission to save the lives of around 1,000 zebrafish ( Danio rerio) in her laboratory. Similarities between lines of hair cells on the fish's flanks and those in the mammalian inner ear enable her to use them as a model to study hearing problems in humans caused by some antibiotics and chemotherapy drugs. A sensor had picked up that the lab's heating system had been knocked out by a power fault.
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fromMail Online
1 month ago

See the Milky Way like NEVER before in largest image of its kind

One of the most exciting aspects is the rich chemistry we detect. We see dozens of different molecules, including some complex organic molecules that contain carbon, the same element that forms the basis of life on Earth. From ACES, we are learning more about how the ingredients for planets, and potentially life itself, can arise in the universe.
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fromNature
2 months ago

Constraints on axion dark matter by distributed intercity quantum sensors - Nature

Y.W. designed the experimental protocols, performed experiments, analysed the data and wrote the manuscript. Y.H., X.K., D.C., J.X.X. and W.Z. performed experiments and edited the manuscript. Y.C. and S.P. edited the manuscript. M.J., X.P. and J.D. proposed the experimental concept, designed experimental protocols and proofread and edited the manuscript. All authors contributed with discussions and checking the manuscript. Corresponding authors Correspondence to Min Jiang or Xinhua Peng.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

The science behind why some auroras have such stunning wave patterns

Auroras are nature's most special light show: when charged particles from the sun hit our atmosphere, they can generate bright colors that dance across the night sky near the Earth's poles. Auroras can come in various forms, including bands, rays, patches and more. But why auroras form these patterns is less clear. Now, researchers say they've identified the battery that powers at least one kind of auroraaurora arcs.
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fromBig Think
2 months ago

Yes, JWST should take the deepest deep-field image ever

Each time we've looked at the Universe in a fundamentally new way, we didn't just see more of what we already knew what was out there. In addition, those novel capabilities allowed the Universe to surprise us, breaking records, revolutionizing our view of what was out there, and teaching us information that we never could have learned without collecting that key data.
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fromKqed
1 month ago

What an Insect View Really Looks Like | KQED

On a spring day in 1694, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - the father of microbiology - used a magnifying lens to look at a candle through the dissected eye of a dragonfly. But instead of seeing 1 candle flame, he saw hundreds of tiny flames, repeated over and over. But spoiler alert - this is not how insects see. Hi, I'm Niba, and today we're going to explore how insects really see the world.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Incredible image shows what 2026's first solar eclipse looked like from space

An annular solar eclipse on February 17 produced a 'ring of fire' visible from Antarctica and imaged multiple times by ESA's PROBA-2 satellite.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting

Martian nights average about 12 hours and are extremely cold, but Curiosity's LED-equipped instruments illuminate shadowed rock interiors for scientific study.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures in the universe

The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn't believe it was real. But it wasand Jung and her colleagues went on to identify one of the largest rotating structures ever found in space: a chain of galaxies embedded in a spinning cosmic filament 400 million light-years from Earth. The finding, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may give astronomers new insights into galaxies' formation, evolution and diversity, Jung says.
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fromWIRED
1 month ago

Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

Now say you want to run some modest AI stuff. That's a bigger job, so let's scale up our cubical computer with edges twice as long as before. That would make the volume eight times larger (2 3), so we could have eight times as many processors, and we need eight times as much power input-2,400 watts. However, the surface area is only four times (2 2) larger, so the radiative power would be about 4,000 watts.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

Mind Blowing James Webb Photo Shows Star Crumbling Into Dust

Webb captured an infrared close-up of the Helix Nebula revealing a dying star shedding its outer layers and leaving behind a white dwarf.
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fromEngadget
2 months ago

Astronomers discover over 800 cosmic anomalies using a new AI tool

AnomalyMatch scanned nearly 100 million Hubble image cutouts in 2.5 days and identified 1,400 anomalous objects, over 800 previously undocumented.
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fromNature
2 months ago

Deep-sea robots will search for source of mysterious 'dark oxygen'

Oxygen has been detected 4,000 metres deep in the Pacific, prompting funded investigations with specialized landers and lab experiments to determine its source.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Stunning Footage Shows Space Station Drifting Through Aurora's Dazzling Lights

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare, a major burst of electromagnetically charged particles that lit up the Earth's night sky as they entered our planet's atmosphere. The effect was stunning: a dazzling display of auroras reaching as far as southern California. Forecasters that it was one of the largest solar storms in decades, making for a particularly unique opportunity to watch the show unfold.
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fromNature
2 months ago

To gain public trust, make art central to science communication

Art-science collaborations should be supported and normalised to communicate science, strengthen public trust, and develop researchers' observational, creative, and empathetic skills.
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