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By STACY LIBERATORE, U.S. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Scientists have warned that Earth’s rotation is set to speed up on Tuesday, resulting in one of the shortest days in recorded history.  The change, driven by the moon’s gravitational pull, will cause the planet to spin slightly faster at its poles, shaving 1.25 milliseconds off the usual 24-hour day.  While the …

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that boiled my blood, warmed my heart, and got permanently inked into my memory. First, a new look at some very old tattoos. Then: a posthumous discovery from a beloved defunct telescope, an update on lava planets, the adventures of translocated mole rats, and some provocative style tips from …

Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Brazil’s judiciary  The Economist U.S. stiffens sanctions against judge at center of U.S.-Brazil feud  The Washington Post Trump accused of ‘attack on Brazilian democracy’ after sanctioning Bolsonaro trial judge  The Guardian Sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes for Serious Human Rights Abuse  U.S. Department of State (.gov) US imposes sanctions on Brazilian high court judge  Reuters Source link

Social media users want National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard to remember this part of history. During an appearance on Real America’s Voice, Gabbard on Thursday addressed her recent claims that former President Barack Obama and his national security team committed a “treasonous conspiracy” in manufacturing a “false” U.S. intelligence assessment to show that Russia favored President Donald Trump in the …

Earth is spinning so fast that global timekeepers are considering something that’s never been done before: adding a negative leap second. So far this year, July 9 and July 22 have been unusually short — by about 1.3 and 1.4 milliseconds, respectively. However, Aug. 5 is expected to be even shorter, losing roughly 1.5 milliseconds, according to timeanddate.com. This follows …

Updated July 20 with further color details for more upcoming iPhones. With less than two months until the release of the next iPhones (read full details of the exact date expected here), there’s a lot that has been reported by now. But now it looks like the colors of the iPhones are coming into focus. The latest data has information …

Illustration by Midjourney. On a molecular level, life as we know it has a surprising bias. The building blocks of life — DNA, RNA, and proteins — have a “handedness,” like our left and right hands. For reasons still unclear, nature almost exclusively uses right-handed DNA and left-handed proteins. But what if science flipped the script? In labs around the …

See images of solar eruptions on the sun in unprecedented detail  The Washington Post NASA just took the closest-ever images of the sun, and they are incredible (video)  Space NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun  NASA Science (.gov) Watch Solar Winds Burst into Space in the Closest-Ever Glimpse of the Sun  Colossal NASA Reveals The Closest Images Ever Taken of The …

Paris Saint-Germain are hoping to take another step towards history when they face Chelsea in the Club World Cup final on Sunday night. The dominant European champions are on course to become the first team ever to complete the ‘septet’—win seven titles in a calendar year. Two teams in history have claimed ’sextuples’, but never before has it been possible …

A new discovery in one of the most remote and extreme parts of the ocean is challenging our understanding of life at incredible depths. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, at nearly 8,000 meters, scientists have found an organism that defies expectations. For decades, this dark and hostile environment was thought to harbor only scavengers, but recent findings suggest there is …