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Facebook Tweet Email Link How will the climate crisis affect one of the ocean’s fiercest predators? New research published Wednesday has examined what might happen to sharks’ highly specialized, flesh-cutting teeth. As carbon emissions increase, the ocean is absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, lowering pH levels and making seawater more acidic, a process that can affect many ocean …

What: Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: The 27-minute launch window opens at 11:53 a.m. Tuesday, according to SpaceX. If needed, the team has backup opportunities during the same time period Wednesday. Where: Space Launch Complex-4 on South Base. Landing: The first-stage booster, making its 27th flight, will return to Landing Zone 4, west …

Ever since interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS whizzed into our cosmic neighborhood in July, astronomers have been racing to uncover its characteristics. Now that the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has taken a good look at this icy interloper, it seems to be weirder than anyone imagined. A preprint submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters for peer review on Monday, August 25, …

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Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Good Job, I am a female 46-year-old working with a man, “Brandon,” who is the same age. We work in the counseling field, in residential care for teenage clients. About 18 months ago, …

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A fresh round of trenching in southern Peru has uncovered a new copper-rich zone that’s drawing attention. The discovery comes from Camino Minerals’ Los Chapitos project in the central Andes, adding another find to a district that continues to deliver copper. The new mineralization sits in the Mirador zone along the Diva trend, where Camino Minerals reports copper paired with …

If the weather cooperates Tuesday night, eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents, along with the rest of the Mid-Atlantic, may have good seats for a rocket launch. The launch, weather permitting, will take place at a NASA facility on the Delmarva peninsula in Wallops Island, Virginia, just south of Ocean City, Maryland. The launch window opens at 10:30 p.m. and …

The slender crescent moon will be positioned close to the bright star Spica at sunset on Aug. 27, but you’ll have to be quick to catch a glimpse of the cosmic duo before they follow the sun below the horizon! Look to the west as the sun sets on Aug. 27 to find the 18%-lit waxing crescent moon a little …

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets crossing their stars’ faces. The model builds on a technique researchers have used for decades to study star spots. By improving astronomers’ understanding of spotty stars, the new model — called StarryStarryProcess — can help discover more about …