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Good news: If these things come too close, we can blast them out of the sky. Photo: NASA/ZUMA Press Wire Service/Shutterstock Scientists Have Finally Worked Out How to Save Earth from a Huge Asteroid
A new study has answered a question that Hollywood directors and defense specialists have been asking for decades.
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An octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a gold-saddle goatfish on the other. Photo: Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins Fish Are Leading Octopuses On Collaborative Hunting Missions, Red Sea Scientists Find
But if the fish step out of line, the octopuses aren’t scared to punch them in the face.
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An isopod enjoying its sargassum dinner. (Photo: Daniel Hentz, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Could This Deep-Sea Isopod’s Algae Fetish Help Reverse Climate Change?
An ocean research team’s accidental discovery could have significant ramifications for the planet.
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Scientists measure the energy needed to excite the thorium-229 nucleus, which is the core of a future nuclear clock. Chuankun Zhang/JILA. Nuclear Clock Breakthrough Could Expose Dark Matter and Speed Up the Internet
Scientists just built an ultraprecise prototype.
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View of the submerged stone bridge from Genovesa Cave, Mallorca, Spain. Photo by R. Landreth A Hidden Underwater Sea Bridge Just Changed Our Ideas About Ancient Human Settlement
Researchers made the discovery while diving in a Balearic cave.
