Australian 'Megablaze' Finally Brought Under Control After Raging For Almost 3 Months
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Australian 'Megablaze' Finally Brought Under Control After Raging For Almost 3 Months
Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia's largest "megablaze" under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires.
Bizarre Phenomenon of Light Flashing From Human Eyes Caught on Camera For First Time
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Bizarre Phenomenon of Light Flashing From Human Eyes Caught on Camera For First Time
Some radiation therapy patients report seeing flashes of light in front of their eyes during treatment – even when their eyes are closed. Now this long-standing mystery may have been solved, thanks to this weird effect being caught on camera for
Scientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip
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Scientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the fundamentals of particle physics. But now scientists have managed to squeeze one on to a
Astronomers Have Found Signs of Another Planet at Proxima Centauri, And It's Huge
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Astronomers Have Found Signs of Another Planet at Proxima Centauri, And It's Huge
Proxima Centauri is our nearest neighbouring star; it's just 4.2 light-years away. It has one planet that astronomers know of, a potentially habitable world called Proxima b.
Mars Orbiter Just Sent Back an Incredible Photo of The Red Planet's Icy North Pole
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Mars Orbiter Just Sent Back an Incredible Photo of The Red Planet's Icy North Pole
A new image from the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows how beautiful, and desolate, Mars can appear. It also highlights some of the natural process that shape the planet's surface.
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SpaceX has successfully carried out a test of the Crew Dragon Launch Escape system and is now one step closer to launching astronauts to the International Space Station this year
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Crew Dragon separating from Falcon 9 during today’s test, which verified the spacecraft’s ability to carry astronauts to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency on ascent
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Nothingness Has Friction, And The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Made Could Measure It
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Nothingness Has Friction, And The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Made Could Measure It
Scientists have created the fastest spinning object ever made, taking them a big step closer to being able to measure the mysterious quantum forces at play inside 'nothingness'.
Astronomers Detect a Burst of Gravitational Waves From The Direction of Betelgeuse
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Astronomers Detect a Burst of Gravitational Waves From The Direction of Betelgeuse
Gravitational waves are caused by calamitous events in the Universe. Neutron stars that finally merge after circling each other for a long time can create them, and so can two black holes that collide with each other. But sometimes there's a burst
Here's What Scientists Know So Far About The 'Novel Coronavirus' From China
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Here's What Scientists Know So Far About The 'Novel Coronavirus' From China
A new SARS-like virus has killed six people in China and infected nearly 300 others.
Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
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Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
Snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.
Caltech Team Builds a Camera That Captures The Invisible at a Trillion Frames Per Second
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Caltech Team Builds a Camera That Captures The Invisible at a Trillion Frames Per Second
Scientists continue to push the boundaries of what cameras are capable of – like a newly developed phase-sensitive compressed ultrafast photography (pCUP) device, which is capable of snapping an impressive one trillion frames every second.