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Aurora photos: Stunning northern lights glisten after biggest geomagnetic storm in 21 years

An immense geomagnetic storm caused auroras as far south as Florida for the first time in 21 years after the sun unleashed a wave of solar flares and at least seven coronal mass ejections at Earth.

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'Extreme' geomagnetic storm that painted Earth with auroras this weekend was the most powerful in 21 years

Between Friday (May 10) and Sunday (May 12), people across the world were treated to stunning aurora displays as Earth's magnetic field experienced its biggest disturbance since October 2003. The supercharged storm also messed with satellites and caused power grid irregularities.

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1st person to receive a pig kidney transplant has died

Rick Slayman was the first person in the world to receive this pioneering surgery in March 2024.

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Earth may have had freshwater and continents just 200 million years after forming, ancient crystals reveal

Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed.

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China creates its largest ever quantum computing chip — and it could be key to building the nation's own 'quantum cloud'

China’s supersized superconducting chip looks to match the performance of industry leaders like IBM and will be used to help scale up the performance of quantum computers globally.

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MIT gives AI the power to 'reason like humans' by creating hybrid architecture

MIT scientists devise three abstraction libraries that can be combined with AI systems to improve their reasoning and contextual awareness in programming, strategic planning and robotics.

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Why do earthquakes happen far away from plate boundaries?

It's well known that earthquakes can rock fault-filled places like the U.S. West Coast. But why do earthquakes happen in the middle of tectonic plates?

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Earth from space: Majestic 'yin-yang' crater sits atop a dormant volcano in Turkey

The massive caldera of Turkey's Mount Nemrut volcano is split in half, with one side made of solidified lava flows and the other half a deep crater lake. Covered in snow, the summit scene looks like the yin-yang symbol when viewed from above.

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James Webb telescope detects 1-of-a-kind atmosphere around 'Hell Planet' in distant star system

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of a carbon-rich atmosphere around the hellish world 55 Cancri e. This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.

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Massive study of 8,000 cats reveals which breeds live longest

Birman and Burmese cats live the longest, while Sphynx cats die the youngest, a giant new study of U.K. cats found.

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Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints

New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter.

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32 strange places scientists are looking for aliens

From planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien life.

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Space photo of the week: 'God's Hand' leaves astronomers scratching their heads

A new space photo captures "God's Hand", a cometary globule in the Gum Nebula, where stars are being born.

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Why can't we see the far side of the moon?

Spacecraft have visited and photographed the far side of the moon, but why can't we see it from Earth?

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32 of the most colorful birds on Earth

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

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Meta just stuck its AI somewhere you didn't expect it — a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses

Ray-Ban smart glasses will now use Meta AI virtual assistant software so that wearers can speak with their smart glasses and ask questions about what they're looking at.

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Sarcastic fringehead: The angry little fish that engages in mouth-to-mouth combat

This curiously named sea-dweller lives along the Pacific coast, eats squid eggs and fights by opening its mouth wide.

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Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their immune system, study suggests

Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude.

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'The most critically harmful fungi to humans': How the rise of C. auris was inevitable

In this excerpt from his new book "What if Fungi Win?" microbiologist and immunologist Arturo Casadevall examines the rise of the deadly yeast Candida auris.

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Stone with 1,600-year-old Irish inscription found in English garden

Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D.

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Can mirrors facing each other create infinite reflections?

Infinite mirrors are a fun party trick, but the physics behind this phenomenon explains why it may not be true.

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Suspected thieves nearly swipe pre-Hispanic artifacts from an archaeological site in Peru

Officials were alerted to the alleged crime and successfully recovered the artifacts.

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Odd earthquake swarm in Central Europe hints at magma bubbling below the surface

An odd earthquake swarm has struck the region between the Czech Republic and Germany, far from any tectonic plate boundary.

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Cosmic 'superbubbles' might be throwing entire galaxies into chaos, theoretical study hints

When there are multiple supernovas in the same galaxy, they can leave enormous voids that tamper with the balance between dark matter and regular matter. Over time, this can throw entire galaxies into chaos.

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Roman-era skeletons buried in embrace, on top of a horse, weren't lovers, DNA analysis shows

A new analysis of a double burial in Austria has revealed that a skeletal couple weren't lovers but likely an embracing mother and daughter.

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