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Researchers have uncovered how prehistoric people managed to transport a massive 2-tonne stone across distances over 5,300 years ago. The stone, called the Matarrubilla stone, resides within a circular chamber known as a tholos at the Valencina site near Seville. The Matarrubilla Stone: A Ritual Monument The Matarrubilla stone is no ordinary megalith. Weighing a staggering two tonnes, it is …

Tiny organisms live in a world where the usual rules of motion feel upside-down. Water that slips through our fingers turns syrupy at their scale, dragging against every twitch. Yet a sperm cell or a green alga skims along as if the goo were barely there. Sperm are such great swimmers because of a slender flagellum that ripples like a …

Two meteor showers will peak together on the night of July 29-30, with the moon out of the way just in time for about 25 shooting stars per hour to be seen in dark skies. The highlight will be the Southern Delta Aquariids, the stronger of the two showers, with expected rates of up to 20 meteors per hour at …

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of gas and dust stretching out for a staggering 200 light-years and lurking in a poorly explored region of the Milky Way. The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using the Green Bank Telescope. Peeling back the layers of the …

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In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Harvard University and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute have uncovered ancient proteins hidden in fossilized teeth, offering a deeper glimpse into the lives and evolutionary history of extinct animals. Published in the renowned journal Nature, their study reveals how proteins, long considered too fragile to survive millions of years, are preserved within the enamel …

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described Ammonite, a potential dwarf planet beyond Pluto. Yesterday, astronomers announced the existence of BetelBuddy, a small companion star orbiting Betelgeuse. And now we have another exciting discovery to share. In a Planetary Science Journal paper published earlier this month, astronomers with the …

NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some very, very, remote hardware hacking. As explained in a Monday post, NASA designed the visible light JunoCam to survive for eight orbits of Jupiter – about 400 days – but wasn’t confident it would last much …

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned launch of SES’ ninth and tenth O3b mPOWER satellites. Image: SpaceX Update July 22, 2:50 p.m. EDT: Added updated weather data. SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, July 22, for the launch of two satellites to medium Earth orbit, following a …

Topline Several states in the northern U.S. may have an opportunity to view the northern lights Tuesday night as geomagnetic storm conditions could pull the phenomenon farther south, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Some “minor” geomagnetic storm levels are expected to pull the northern lights to more states, … More forecasters said. Getty Images Key Facts NOAA …