By Reuters WASHINGTON—About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova…
Science News
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By Jack Phillips A total lunar eclipse known as a “blood moon” will appear around the world on Tuesday, Nov. 8, coming hours after polls open across the United States for…
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SCIENCE & TECH
Nobel Prize Awarded to Chemists Who Discovered Reactions That Snap Molecules Together Like Lego
by EditorTBy Reuters STOCKHOLM—Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that…
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SCIENCE & TECH
Newly Discovered Giant Bacteria Challenges Previous Biological Understanding
by EditorTBy Marina Zhang Researchers have found a new bacteria species that is millimeters long and visible to the eye, challenging a previous understanding that one needs a microscope to see a bacterium. “It’s…
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CHINA
China to Activate Experimental Nuclear Molten Salt Reactor, Hopes to Obtain Full Intellectual Rights
by EditorTBy Katie Spence In China’s remote northwest Gansu province, Chinese scientists successfully designed, and built, an experimental thorium-powered molten salt reactor—and they’re about to power it up. Initially, 2024 was the…
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By Naveen Athrappully The earth spun at its fastest speed on June 29, completing its shortest day and baffling scientists as to why this is happening. The earth finished a spin…