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The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipulating citations and reviewing papers without disclosing conflicts of interest.  The publisher’s research integrity team has identified more than 4,000 articles linked to the network in journals owned by seven …

There’s a meme that’s been floating around on social media recently, offering encouragement to turn our everyday perspective upside down. “In the entire Universe, wood is rarer and more valuable than diamonds.” Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn While diamonds are surprisingly common in the Universe – being made from (very abundant) carbon crystallised in the high pressures of asteroid collisions and gas …

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The Gobi Desert just gained another actor in its cast of Late Cretaceous characters. Paleontologists have unveiled Shri rapax, a stocky, two legged predator with a body that stretched only about 6.5 feet (2 meters) but had some serious weaponry. Unearthed after a winding journey through private collections, and eventually repatriated to Mongolia, the fossil shows a creature that roamed …

Zoom image will be displayed (Image credit: NASA) By now, I have a pretty reliable method for gauging whether the scientific study of the new interstellar object 3I/ATLAS went viral. When the carpenter that fixes the porch at my home or the mechanic that changes the oil in my wife’s car, both ask my wife with great interest for the …

Topline The northern lights have a moderate chance to appear for viewers in the northern United States on Sunday night, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted, coinciding with meteor showers potentially visible in the summer night skies. The aurora visible over Fairbanks, Alaska in March. Anadolu via Getty Images Key Facts Forecasters at NOAA issued a Kp index of …

Man-made risks such as nuclear war or lab-created viruses are most likely to bring about the end of the world as we know it, according to author Tom Ough, who has written a new book about threats to humanity’s existence   In 1900, a complex, geared contraption was rescued from an Ancient Greek shipwreck. The Antikythera Mechanism, as it was …

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there are now five confirmed planets in this solar system’s “temperate” or “habitable” zone, the region in a solar system where liquid water could exist on planets’ surfaces. The newly …

A Hidden Heat Source on Uranus Just Changed What We Know About Planets  SciTechDaily Uranus is warmer than everyone thought  New Atlas NASA, Oxford Discover Warmer Uranus Than Once Thought  NASA Science (.gov) Confirmed: Uranus Really Is Hotter Than It Has Any Right to Be  ScienceAlert 6 secrets about the first planet found by telescope that scientists still don’t understand.  WION Source link

Image credits: X/@PondManUK While many are understandably scared of snakes, what most seem to be terrified of are little, crawling creatures called spiders. Now it seems these crawlers were swimming in good ole waters before adapting to land and engaging in a never-ending game of I-spy with humans.According to the analysis of an “exquisitely preserved” fossil that existed 500 million …