IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Comet 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar object from beyond our solar system, believed to be over seven billion years old. 🧊 Discovered by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, the comet is rich in water ice, offering insights into the early universe. 🔭 The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to play a key role in detecting …
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After a busy weekend of shows in Atlanta (and some big injury news), with just hours to go before the July 14 Raw, WWE only had one match booked for the show. It was a big one: the CM Punk, Jey Uso, LA Knight, Penta, and Bron Breakker gauntlet match to determine Gunther’s next challenger for the WWE World title …
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“That Mars is habitable by beings of some sort or other is as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be,” wrote Percival Lowell in the early 20th century. While the theories of this well-heeled amateur astronomer might seem fanciful when viewed from 2025, given what was known at the time, a large percentage of the public found …
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In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an eerie, auditory experience. Now a team containing some of those same scientists has sonified an even earlier flip, from epochs ago. The resulting cacophony is an unnerving translation of geological data on the Matuyama-Brunhes reversal, a switching of the planet’s magnetic …
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Following years in development and countless rumors, Apple’s first foldable iPhone looks to finally be coming next year. Here are five new features rumored for Apple’s first ever iPhone Fold. ~7.8-inch inner display, 5.5-inch outer display iPad mini pictured Current iPhones all live in the 6-inch screen territory, ranging from the 6.1-inch iPhone 16 to the 6.9-inch iPhone 16 Pro …
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Téa Leoni & Tim Daly State of Our Union … We’re Married, Baby!!!💍 Published July 14, 2025 12:07 PM PDT | Updated July 14, 2025 1:11 PM PDT Congrats are in order for Téa Leoni — ’cause she just made it official with Tim Daly! The “Madam Secretary” costars are Mr. and Mrs. … TMZ has learned. A source close …
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It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent docking with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. The mission was the first and only spaceflight of Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 group of astronauts, who had been disqualified from …
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In an unexpected discovery, researchers have found that wild tomatoes in the Galápagos Islands seem to be evolving in reverse. This fascinating phenomenon, previously thought to be rare, suggests that evolution isn’t always a straightforward process. The finding, which challenges conventional wisdom, could lead to exciting breakthroughs in genetic research. Tomatoes Turning Back Time on the Galápagos A team of …
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QUICK FACTS Name: Kākāpō (Strigops habroptila), also known as the owl parrot Where it lives: Off the coast of New Zealand on the Codfish, Maud and Little Barrier Islands What it eats: Kākāpō are vegetarians. Their diet varies with the seasons and includes tubers, fruits, seeds, leaf buds, young plant shoots, fungi and moss. The first thing that you’ll notice …
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‘Zombie’ fungi that hijack insects are not just a modern forest horror story. A pair of tiny fossils locked in Burmese amber shows that these parasites stalked ants and flies nearly 100 million years ago in what is now Myanmar. The newly described fungi, Paleoophiocordyceps gerontoformicae and Paleoophiocordyceps ironomyiae, sprouted from their long‑dead hosts, just like today’s entomopathogenic relatives. This gruesome strategy …
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