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Astronomers may be starting to get the goods on lava planets. These fiery worlds share a similar density to Earth but orbit so close to their host stars that their scorching daytime temperatures melt the very rocks they’re made of, creating possible oceans of magma that cover their surface. While lava worlds represent an exciting new frontier in exoplanet science, …

Scientists Unearth 247-Million-Year-Old ‘Wonder’ Fossil Unlike Anything Seen Before  SciTechDaily FEATHERS BEFORE DINOSAURS? ANCIENT REPTILE FOSSIL REDEFINES INTEGUMENT EVOLUTION  Hiru News A Reptile’s Baffling Backfin And The Math Of Dashing Dinos | Science Friday  WNYC Studios | Podcasts This Reptile Sported Strange, Feather-Shaped Structures Around 247 Million Years Ago  Discover Magazine Something like feathers grew on a 247-million-year-old reptile  San Juan Daily Star Source link

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The effect of a gene can vary greatly — and sometimes be the complete opposite — depending on whether it is inherited from the mother or the father. Some genetic variants can, for instance, increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes when inherited from the father, but lower it when inherited from the mother. But such effects have …

United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists the USSF-106 mission payload atop the Vulcan rocket in the Government Vertical Integration Facility (VIF-G) adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This will be Vulcan’s first national security mission for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC). Image: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance is on the cusp of …

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Subterranean forests are not a figment of a science-fiction writer’s imagination, but actually exist. The Hayward Gallery’s ‘Among the Trees’ exhibition in 2020 included a remarkable photograph by Rachel Sussman of a 13,000-year-old tree, Parinari capensis, growing beneath the red sandy soil of South Africa’s savannah. Or rather, it showed the uppermost crown, the only part of the tree in …

There’s nothing particle physicists like more than crashing particles together and seeing what comes out of the mess. Such experiments can help us find evidence of particles and processes predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics – such as the Higgs Boson – or allow us to probe the conditions of the early universe, for example. Particle accelerators, though, …

Several massive, three-toed footprints etched in limestone were discovered near Big Sandy Creek during cleanup after the July 5 flood. Some of the dinosaur tracks were hidden by brush; others had been covered in sediment that was scoured away by floodwaters. “It’s one of those sort of bittersweet things about our job, is that it’s the cataclysmic events that often …