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Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation. The ban was in response to the widespread environmental and economic damage it was causing. Unchecked sea sand...
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial arrangement...

Why do galaxies stop making stars? A huge collision in space provides new clues

Six billion years ago, two galaxies were colliding, their combined forces hurling a stream of gas hundreds of thousands of light years away. Reported...

The case is building that colliding neutron stars create magnetars

Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion...

Cosmic ‘dust’ from supernovae hints at how stars are born

New research detected strong polarization from a young supernova remnant. It provided independent and solid evidence that the cosmic dust in the early universe...

Eight years later, an explosion far out in space is still revealing secrets about the lives of stars

An international group of astronomers has uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion that was discovered eight years ago, but is continuing to...

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,...

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