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Neptune Dances in Sync With a Rare Distant Object, Astronomers Find

Neptune Dances in Sync With a Rare Distant Object, Astronomers Find

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 …

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New Horizons Could Find Its Way to Proxima Centauri if it Wanted

New Horizons Could Find Its Way to Proxima Centauri if it Wanted

The New Horizons spacecraft is humanity’s fastest-moving spacecraft and headed to interstellar space. Since its exploration of Pluto 10 years ago and subsequent flyby of Arrokoth in 2019, it’s been traversing and studying the Kuiper Belt while looking for other flyby objects. That’s not all it’s been doing, however. New Horizons also has an extended program of making heliophysics observations. …

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New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them

New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. Their lineage not only survived the mass extinction that ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, but also gave rise to the largest living lizards on Earth. Today, these formidable creatures pace through forests and scrublands, flicking their tongues as they go. A …

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Wisconsin elections officials find clerk broke laws over uncounted ballots

Wisconsin elections officials find clerk broke laws over uncounted ballots

MADISON, Wis . (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials declared Thursday that the former clerk of the state’s capital city broke several laws related to not counting nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November presidential election, but they stopped short of recommending criminal charges be brought. The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to accept a report finding that the former …

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5,000-Year-Old Wine Jars Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Tomb – A Breathtaking Find!

5,000-Year-Old Wine Jars Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Tomb – A Breathtaking Find!

A discovery in Egypt has provided an extraordinary glimpse into the ancient art of winemaking. Archaeologists recently unearthed 5,000-year-old sealed wine jars in the tomb of Queen Meret-Neith at Abydos, one of the earliest known royal burial sites in Egypt. This discovery not only offers a tangible link to early winemaking but also sheds light on the advanced techniques used …

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Best binoculars by price — Find the perfect pair for your budget

Best binoculars by price — Find the perfect pair for your budget

Want to bring the world closer? The best telescopes are one option but you shouldn’t underestimate the power and portability of binoculars. With many night sky phenomena happening this week alongside Amazon Prime Day, such as Saturn making it’s return to the night sky and the full moon, known as the buck moon, there couldn’t be a better time to …

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ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal information to help find immigrants.

ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal information to help find immigrants.

The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as the president seeks to ramp up deportations. In a statement to NBC News on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the latest data-sharing agreement between her agency and the Centers for Medicare …

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