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Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Our Universe, as we observe it today, is vast and isolated, with enormous amounts of space between the stars, and with stars clustered into trillions of galaxies scattered across tens of billions of light-years. It’s also …

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My daughter, “Fiona” is 12 and not a girly girl. She’s not unattractive by any means, just not interested in clothes or makeup. The problem is that my mother-in-law has been constantly harping on this disinterest since last year, and claims that …

Press enter or click to view image in full size A panoramic image of the 100 billion stars in the Milky-Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESO/S. Brunier) Let us imagine for a moment that the new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, guided to send mini-probes that will arrive at Earth and other planets in the coming months. Given the limited …

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I recently had our first child, a daughter, “Annabelle.” I grew up with three sisters, and my father has been eager for a grandson, as my two sisters with kids both have daughters as well. Now that …

Editor’s Note: The headline of this article was updated on August 14 to to clarify the nature of the moonquake research. As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the surface of the Moon’s south polar region for the first time ever during the Artemis III mission, scientists are working on methods to determine the frequency of moonquakes along active faults …

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient whale with cartoonish bulging eyes that they say would have made it look like a Pokémon. A precursor to today’s modern whale species, the 25 million-year-old creature was “deceptively cute,” according to Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at Australia’s Museums Victoria Research Institute, as reported by the Toronto Sun. “It …

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Ancient DNA Solves Mystery of Hungarian, Finnish Language Family’s Origins  SciTechDaily Source link

Faults like San Andreas don’t necessarily repeat past behavior, which means the next big earthquake in California has the potential to be larger than any seen before, a new study suggests. The fresh insights into fault behavior came from studying Myanmar’s devastating March earthquake, which killed more than 5,000 people and caused widespread destruction. Scientists found that the fault responsible, …

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