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Credit: Adapted from Getty One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory problem that had been plaguing her for months. She got out of bed, grabbed her notebook, and started sketching out an experiment that had come to her in a dream. Tabler, then a developmental-biology PhD student at King’s College London, was struggling …

The Milky Way reflects on the Dillon Reservoir in Summit County. The Perseid meteor shower is expected to light up the sky with hundreds of shooting stars this August.Colton Sturgeon/Courtesy photo Colorado’s night skies will be filled with hundreds of shooting stars this month as one of the best meteor showers of the year rains down on the Rocky Mountains. …

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A meteorite that punched a hole i n a Georgia homeowner’s roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself, according to scientist who examined fragments of the space rock. People in several Southern states reported seeing the mysterious fireball in broad daylight on June 26 as it hurtled …

Mystery early human relatives reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, oldest evidence found on ‘hobbit’ island neighbor  Archaeology News Online Magazine Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene  Nature 1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed  Live Science Stone tool discovery could offer new clue in mystery of …

Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from Earth — and for the first time in such a nearby galaxy, watched as a faint stream of stars is being pulled from one into the other. The observations, made in the galaxy cluster Abell 3667, revealed a faint, million light-year-long bridge of stars connecting …

Researchers in China say they have recreated the elusive “meteorite diamond” in a laboratory – settling six decades of debate about the material’s existence. The first hexagonal-structured diamond was discovered in 1967 within the Canyon Diablo meteorite that hit Arizona 49,000 years ago. It was widely believed to have formed from graphite under the intense heat and pressure generated by …

A hidden lake beneath Greenland’s Harder Glacier unexpectedly erupted, unleashing a powerful surge of water that carved a massive crater in the ice. The dramatic event caught researchers off guard, as water surged upward through thick ice, creating a profound impact on the glacier. Over just ten days, the lake released 23.8 billion gallons (90 million cubic meters) of water, …

After the Apollo 13 mission, Lovell was named the deputy director of science and applications at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (today, Johnson Space Center) before retiring from both the space agency and Navy on March 1, 1973. Lovell became chief executive officer of Bay-Houston Towing Company in 1975 and then president of Fisk Telephone Systems in 1977. On January 1, …

Dogs love attention, and there’s nothing like that when it comes from a big group of people. This video captured a wholesome moment where a “college party dog” named Goose became the center of attention on the dance floor of a wedding celebration. The video of the furry baby was posted on TikTok through the account @ategs22. Since then, the …

A fascinating study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals a groundbreaking discovery about the feeding behavior of sea spiders in methane-rich ecosystems off the coast of Southern California. Marine biologist Shana Goffredi and her team have uncovered a new survival strategy that enables these tiny, translucent arachnids, identified as Sericosura, to thrive in one of …