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After 15 years of debate, a study that announced the alleged discovery of an arsenic-eating microbe has been retracted by the journal Science due to contaminated and flawed data. However, the original study authors disagree with the move. The microbe strain, labeled GFAJ-1, was recovered from the salty water of arsenic-rich Mono Lake in California by a research team led …

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On Wednesday (July 23), Diana Morant, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain, announced the Spanish government will offer a maximum of 400 million euros ($471 million) to save the Thirty Meter Telescope — a massive astronomy observation facility facing possible cancellation due to budget constraints in the U.S. “Spain wants and can be the home of the …

Astronomers have discovered a possible new dwarf planet orbiting far beyond Pluto. First detected in March 2023 by Japan’s Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, this object has been dubbed 2023 KQ14 and nicknamed Ammonite. Ammonite’s appearance also puts a kink in what’s known as the Planet Nine hypothesis, which suggests there may be an undiscovered ninth planet in our solar system. …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an unusual black hole in the Infinity Galaxy. 💥 The galaxy’s unique infinity shape resulted from a head-on collision of two disk galaxies. 🔭 The discovery challenges traditional theories, suggesting a direct collapse formation of black holes. 🧐 Researchers are analyzing data to confirm if the black hole …

Demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries In a breakthrough for antimatter research, the BASE collaboration at CERN has kept an antiproton – the antimatter counterpart of a proton – oscillating smoothly between two different quantum states for almost a minute while trapped. The achievement, reported in a paper published today in the journal Nature, marks the …

Gigantic Great White makes timely Shark Week appearance  The Independent Massive 14-foot 1,600-pound great white shark emerges in water off Massachusetts  Boston 25 News Massive Great White Shark Pings Off Nantucket Coast: Track Its Movements  Newsweek Largest great white shark recorded in Atlantic spotted off popular beach town  Fox News 13-foot, 9-inch shark seen off Nantucket isn’t even close to biggest great white recorded  Cape …

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we’d been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we’d requested from the Very Large Telescope in Chile. I gasped – the stars were wreathed in a huge spiral of dust, like a snake eating its own …

Where Was the Garden of Eden? Not in the Story of Human Evolution  Haaretz Source link

Science Magazine Retracts NASA Astrobiology Paper – But Only After 15 years  NASA WatchView Full Coverage on Google News Source link