Paleontologists in Canada say they have recovered a dinosaur tail vertebra from 75- to 80-million-year-old marine rocks on a small island off the coast of British Columbia, providing the clearest evidence yet that bird-like ornithomimosaurs once roamed the an…
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Supermassive black holes can render exoplanets uninhabitable at great distances - Phys.org
The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet's distance from its star. Too close, and any surface water is boiled away into space. Too far, and surface water is frozen. Both are severe limits on the prospects for life. Habitabi…
Passant Rabie | 21:25
China Launched Artificial Embryos to Orbit to Find Out If We Can Have Space Babies - gizmodo.com
Human reproduction beyond Earth is no longer reserved for science fiction.
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New three‑dimensional magnetic structure discovered with laser light - Phys.org
Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, researchers were able to switch magnetism into previously unseen t…
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Carl Sagan's team considered sending a nude photograph of a man and a pregnant woman on the Voyager Golden Record, but after the controversy over the nude Pioneer plaque, the final record used a silhouette instead - Space Daily
In late 1971, after NASA approved the idea of sending a message aboard Pioneer 10, Carl Sagan was given just three weeks to prepare it. Working with astronomer Frank Drake and artist Linda Salzman Sagan, he helped create a six-by-nine-inch gold-anodized alumi…
Tejasri Gururaj | 20:00
Hydrogen puts quantum wormhole conjecture to the test - Phys.org
A new Physical Review Letters study places constraints on the ER = EPR conjecture, showing that under the authors' assumptions, the conjecture would imply possible alterations to the hyperfine structure and effective charge of the hydrogen atom—effects that h…
Séamus Bellamy | 18:43
The International Space Station has sprung a new leak - Boing Boing
The very premium air leak in the very best Russian part of the International Space Station is back! It may well be that, much like the Little Green Men in…