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James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is frantically escaping into space.

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Anacondas became massive 12 million years ago — and it worked so well, they haven't changed size since

The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.

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Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possible

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

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Elaborate 2,700-year-old tomb in Greece contains burial of a woman with an upside-down crown

A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power.

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'We do not know of a similar case': 4,000-year-old burial in little-known African kingdom mystifies archaeologists

Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa.

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'Cold Supermoon' 2025: It's not too late to see the last, highest full moon of the year

The Cold Moon, the 12th and final full moon of 2025, rose on Thursday (Dec. 4) but will still appear bright and full on Friday (Dec. 5)

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Trio of 'black mesas' leftover from Paleozoic era spawn rare sand dunes in the Sahara — Earth from space

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The structures are remnants of a single Paleozoic era formation, and have helped to create a series of striking sand dunes.

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Science history: Computer scientist lays out 'Moore's law,' guiding chip design for a half century — Dec. 2, 1964

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become "Moore's law, which would govern the electronics industry for a half century.

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An extra solar system planet once orbited next to Earth — and it may be the reason we have a moon

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals.

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is erupting in 'ice volcanoes', new images suggest

Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS — giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

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Russia accidentally destroys its only working launch pad as astronauts lift off to ISS

The recent launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station has caused significant damage to Russia's only launch pad capable of sending humans into space.

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Your AI-generated image of a cat riding a banana exists because of children clawing through the dirt for toxic elements. Is it really worth it?

LLMs like Chat GPT come with major social costs — including child labor — that we can't ignore. Do we really need progress that's built on the suffering of others?

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Once-in-a-century floods set to become annual events in northeastern US in the next 75 years, study finds

Rising sea levels and storm surges from hurricanes will bring more frequent extreme floods to northeastern U.S. states, including Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

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Roman sun hat: A 'very rare' 1,600-year-old brimmed cap that may have protected a Roman soldier from Egyptian sandstorms

A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.

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Scientists mapped the shape of a supernova for the first time ever – and it's not what we expected: Space photo of the week

Astronomers using data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the initial "breakout" phase of a supernova is elongated, not perfectly spherical.

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What's the difference between a newt and a salamander?

Salamanders and newts are both long-tailed amphibians, but what's the difference between them?

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'No easy explanation': Scientists are debating a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light

Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper's conclusion.

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Do your dreams change as you age?

A young child's dreams and an elderly hospice patient's dreams can be very different. What has research found about how our dreams change over time?

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Modern humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago and may have interbred with archaic humans such as 'hobbits'

New genetic research shows that DNA and archaeological evidence align with the "long chronology" of the peopling of Australia.

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Climate change is real. It's happening. And it's time to make it personal.

We found the psychological impetus people need to take action on climate change — realizing it will affect them and their way of life personally.

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Scientists pull up first riches from 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks' that sank off Colombia in 1708

The shipwreck is considered to be one of the richest in the world and has rested at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea since 1708.

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Science history: Astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers a signal of 'little green men,' but her adviser gets the Nobel Prize — Nov. 28, 1967

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio pulsar. The signal, once described as coming from "little green men," would earn her adviser the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974.

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Did a NASA telescope really 'see' dark matter? Strange gamma-rays spark bold claims, but scientists urge caution

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result.

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100,000 mph 'comet fragment' explodes in green fireball over Great Lakes, eerie videos show

A fireball lit up the skies over the Great Lakes in the early hours of Sunday and was visible for hundreds of miles.

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People in China lived alongside 'chicken-killing tigers' long before domestic cats arrived

Leopard cats were living alongside people in ancient China for more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived from Europe via the Silk Road.

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