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Just before the first COVID lockdown in March 2020, Carlos Neto de Carvalho and his wife, Yilu Zhang, were walking along Monte Clérigo beach in southern Portugal. As the geologist and geographer couple scrambled over rocky outcrops and an old collapsed cliff, they stumbled on a series of ancient Neanderthal footprints. “It was early in the morning of a sunny …

Physicists Break Quantum Barrier With Record-Breaking Qubit Coherence  SciTechDaily Source link

June 26, 2022 – The conjunction of the waning crescent moon with Venus as they were rising low in … More the northeast dawn sky in southern Alberta, Canada. Earthshine is visible on the dark side of the moon. The sky exhibits the wonderful transition of colours from the orange at the horizon through the spectrum to the blues at …

In a serendipitous turn of events, scientists have discovered that Japan’s Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 weather satellites, designed to monitor storms and climate patterns here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting valuable data on Venus for nearly a decade. Although meteorological satellites orbit Earth and scan the skies around it, their imaging range extends into space, allowing them to occasionally …

Imagine reaching for a cup and feeling as though your hand is moving, only to discover it’s not your hand, but a rubber replica being touched in sync with your real, hidden hand. You still react, convinced the fake rubber hand is yours. Humans fall for this trick every time, and now we now know that octopuses fall for it, …

China, India, and Japan are not the only countries on the Asian continent looking to establish themselves in the fledgling space economy. South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans for a presence beyond Earth’s orbit, with ambitions to create its own lunar base within 20 years. At a public meeting held at the National …

A long-standing mystery about the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) on Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa may be closer to being solved. Hydrogen peroxide forms as a byproduct when energetic particles break apart water molecules, leading to the recombination of OH radicals — highly reactive molecules with unpaired electrons. H2O2 was first observed on Europa by the Galileo Near Infrared …

In September 2023, a major geological event in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord caught the world’s attention. A landslide caused a massive tsunami that rippled through the Earth’s crust, sending seismic waves across the globe. The unusual phenomenon was so powerful that its effects were detected thousands of miles away, from Alaska to Australia. Scientists were left scrambling to understand the nature …

New interstellar object may be an alien spaceship, researchers say  Chron Hubble spots interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS for the first time  Space Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?  Avi Loeb – Medium Harvard Physicist Claims New Interstellar Comet is Alien Probe  Newsweek Here we go again! Controversial paper questions whether interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is ‘possibly hostile’ alien tech in disguise  Live Science Source link

A distant supermassive black hole may have bitten off more than it can chew! Not only did the star it selected for a stellar meal escape its clutches, but it came back for a second encounter! Evidence of the death-defying star was spotted in the form of a flare that was followed by a near-identical second flare around two years …