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A dusty, compact object bridging galaxies and quasars at cosmic dawn

An international effort led by astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark has identified a distant...

Team behind discovery of planet with three stars retracts their article

An international team of researchers who published a paper in the journal Science in 2016 describing their discovery of an exoplanet with three stars,...

Chinese astronauts return to Earth after six months on space station

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, ending China's longest crewed mission as it continues its quest to...

Ancient Namibian stone could hold key to future quantum computers

A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held...

Understanding why our giant glaciers disappeared in the past gives clues to the future

An international team of climate scientists is working in North Canterbury to try to understand the reasons why giant glaciers disappeared thousands of years...

Satellites improve national reporting of greenhouse gases

With the climate crisis continuing to tighten its grip, nations around the world are making efforts to reduce emissions of climate warming gases. To...

Earliest record of a candidate aurora found in Chinese annals

A celestial event mentioned in an ancient Chinese text turns out to be the oldest known reference to a candidate aurora, predating the next...

Many factors influenced the severity of burns from Oregon’s devastating 2020 megafires

In early September 2020, severe winds, high heat, and prolonged drought conditions led to the explosive growth of wildfires along the western slopes of...

Stalagmites reveal Australia’s pre-colonial bushfire history

Like Plato's Cave, where fires reveal the portrait of an otherwise hidden reality, researchers have for the first time used a stalagmite's chemical signal...

Seafloor spreading has been slowing down

A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know...

Researcher confirms hottest rock on record

If there was ever any doubt the 2011 discovery by a post-doctoral student was indeed the hottest rock on Earth, new findings from a...

Scientists find reworking of juvenile crust in the late Mesozoic in North Qinling, Central China

Mesozoic granitoids, ranging from the Triassic to the Cretaceous, are widely distributed in Qinling orogen. They provide excellent clues for understanding the crustal evolution...

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