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Unlike Earth, the gases in Venus' atmosphere aren't uniformly mixed
Apr 20 2020 11:00 AM

Measurements of Venus' atmospheric nitrogen show that a planet's upper atmosphere doesn't necessarily match the lower atmosphere.

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Interstellar comet Borisov has an unexpected amount of carbon monoxide
Apr 20 2020 11:00 AM

The second known visitor from outside the solar system has three times as much CO relative to H2O than any comet seen in the inner solar system.

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Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair
Apr 20 2020 6:00 AM

For the first time, LIGO and Virgo scientists spotted gravitational waves produced when one big black hole merged with a smaller one.

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Here's where things stand on COVID-19 tests in the U.S.
Apr 17 2020 5:11 PM

Government officials are weighing how to loosen social distancing measures across the United States, but that hinges on widespread COVID-19 testing.

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Ancient recipes led scientists to a long-lost natural blue
Apr 17 2020 2:00 PM

Led by medieval texts, scientists hunted down a plant and extracted from its tiny fruits a blue watercolor whose origins had long been a mystery.

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A weird stellar explosion may have caused the brightest supernova yet seen
Apr 17 2020 8:00 AM

Astronomers may have spotted the first known example of a rare "pulsational pair-instability" supernova.

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Climate change made a southwestern U.S. drought one of the worst in 1,200 years
Apr 16 2020 2:00 PM

Tree ring records show that the 2000-2018 drought in southwestern North America is among the most severe to strike the region in over a millennium.

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Forecasters predict a very active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
Apr 16 2020 1:25 PM

Warmer ocean temperatures could fuel a very active Atlantic hurricane season, with one forecast predicting 18 named storms, including nine hurricanes.

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New images of the sun reveal superfine threads of glowing plasma
Apr 16 2020 9:16 AM

Snapshots from NASA's High-Resolution Coronal Imager show thin filaments of plasma not seen before in the sun's outer atmosphere.

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A star orbiting the Milky Way's giant black hole confirms Einstein was right
Apr 16 2020 3:00 AM

An oddity previously seen in Mercury's orbit has been spotted in a star circling the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center.

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COVID-19 may be most contagious one to two days before symptoms appear
Apr 15 2020 5:39 PM

The coronavirus probably spreads the most before symptoms appear, making containing viral transmission harder.

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New quantum computers can operate at higher temperatures
Apr 15 2020 11:00 AM

Silicon chips operate at higher temperatures than many others, raising hopes for building quantum integrated circuits.

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Dancing peacock spiders turned an arachnophobe into an arachnologist
Apr 15 2020 10:22 AM

Just 22, Joseph Schubert has described 12 of 86 peacock spider species. One with a blue and yellow abdomen is named after Van Gogh's Starry Night.

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'Spacefarers' predicts how space colonization will happen
Apr 15 2020 8:51 AM

In Spacefarers, Christopher Wanjek provides an optimistic yet realistic view on how humans might colonize the rest of our solar system.

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Stephen Wolfram's hypergraph project aims for a fundamental theory of physics
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Simple rules generating complicated networks may be how to build the universe.

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