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Ghostly ‘spiral’ photobombs Perseid meteors over several US states — and experts are unsure what caused it

Ghostly ‘spiral’ photobombs Perseid meteors over several US states — and experts are unsure what caused it

Photographer Joshua Thum captured a shot of the mystery spiral glowing above Wisconsin’s Yerkes Observatory while trying to snap “shooting stars” from the Perseids meteor shower. (Image credit: Joshua Thum) While searching for “shooting stars” from the Perseid meteor shower, stargazers across large parts of the U.S. were recently treated to a stunning surprise: a giant spiral of ghostly white …

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Lauren Sanchez shares cryptic post about flights being ‘about what you learn’ not ‘where you land’ after THAT Blue Origin spaceflight criticism

Lauren Sanchez shares cryptic post about flights being ‘about what you learn’ not ‘where you land’ after THAT Blue Origin spaceflight criticism

Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.co.uk  By KATE DENNETT, SENIOR SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER Published: 16:15, 14 August 2025 | Updated: 16:20, 14 August 2025 Lauren Sanchez has shared a cryptic post after the Blue Origin space mission came under widespread fire. The American news anchor, 55, took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday to share a telling post about flights being …

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From gene hunter to drug hunter

From gene hunter to drug hunter

Howard Chang wasn’t looking for a change from his job at Stanford, where he worked as both a genomic researcher and a dermatologist. His busy lab there was focused on understanding how regulatory programmes drive disease — unveiling for example how long-non-coding RNA (lncRNA) underpins autoimmunity in women and how extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) fuels cancer. And with five biotech startups …

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Orcas and Dolphins Have Crossed the “Point of No Return” for Living on Land Once Again

Orcas and Dolphins Have Crossed the “Point of No Return” for Living on Land Once Again

A recent study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B confirms that dolphins and orcas have reached a point in their evolutionary path where returning to land is no longer biologically possible. Led by Bruna Farina, a doctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the study examined over 5,600 species of mammals and found that full-time marine …

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Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger

Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger

An abstract representation of Majoranas, which are their own antiparticles.Credit: Ramon Andrade 3DCiencia/Science Photo Library A key study1 claiming to provide evidence of Majorana quasiparticles has received an extensive correction five years after it was published in the journal Science. Two researchers who flagged the paper as problematic say that the correction isn’t sufficient — triggering the latest dispute in …

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