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Space - Science News
WEB2 days ago · Headlines and summaries of the latest Science News articles, delivered to your inbox. Starlink satellites unintentionally emit radio waves that appear more than 10 million times brighter than ...
Environment | Science News
WEB2 days ago · More than 4 billion people may not have access to clean water. The new estimate, based on data from 135 low- and middle-income countries, is more than double the World Health Organization’s ...
Are viruses alive? And why does it matter? | Science News
WEBNov 1, 2021 · In the 1800s, they were called biological particles. By the early 1900s, they’d been demoted to inert chemicals. Throughout, viruses have rarely been considered alive. More than 120 definitions ...
Our climate change crisis - Science News
WEBMar 10, 2022 · The climate change emergency. Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as ...
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally been unveiled ...
WEBMay 12, 2022 at 9:38 am. There’s a new addition to astronomers’ portrait gallery of black holes. Astronomers announced May 12 that they have finally assembled an image of the supermassive ...
How plate tectonics upended our understanding of Earth
WEBJan 13, 2021 · Plate tectonics revealed how Earth’s surface features are intrinsically linked to its hot interior. The San Andreas Fault (shown) is the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates ...
All Stories - Science News
WEBScientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain. By tracing every single connection between nerve cells in a single fruit fly’s brain, scientists have created the ...
Mass shootings and gun violence in the United States are increasing
WEBMay 26, 2022 · On May 24, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 19 children and two teachers were killed by a shooter. Just 10 days earlier, a white gunman was accused of a racially motivated shooting in a ...
How physicists revealed subatomic particles and cracked matter’s ...
WEBThe paradigm held back theoretical descriptions of the neutron and the positron, two particles found one after the other in 1932. And another would-be new particle, the neutrino, proposed in 1930 ...