An illustration issued by the Southwest Research Institute showing the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. (PA) A gigantic asteroid collision in space 470 million years ago is responsible for creating the right conditions for life on Earth. What’s more, clues from the […]
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An Area 51 aficionado gives a warning, Trump is fighting with California over vehicle emissions, and the FDA is struggling to regulate vaping. Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today’s Headlines Don’t storm Area 51,
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A new physics discovery kills hope of the unknown, a drug said to cure opioid addiction comes with a caveat, and a competitive videogamer is out to restore his name. Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up
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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is a priority for governments around the world. For example, the UK’s current commitment to increasing investment in research and development to 2.4 percent of GDP by 2027 means that we need to train 260,000 more researchers to carry out this work. There has long been a perceived
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Looks like a UFO, instead it’s just a modified plane (aeroSPARX) Residents in Leicester were getting alarmed last Friday (the 13th) after spotting what looked like ‘flaming UFOs’ in the sky. Several whipped out their phones and scooped some video of the mysterious aerial phenomenon. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a case of alien spacecraft burning up
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Remember ‘Oumuamua? It was the first known interstellar object detected that through the Solar System. Since it can’t be captured into a solar orbit, the object will eventually leave the Solar System and resume traveling through interstellar space. However, it will take the object roughly 20,000 years to travel the Solar System before leaving. Now,
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Making a monumental scientific breakthrough is really kind of its own reward. Even so, it’s always nice to get extra recognition in the form of unexpected money. For the 347 scientists around the world who made history when they captured the first image of a black hole, the event itself is pretty sweet. The cake
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SESAME scientific director Giorgio Paolucci points out one of the magnetic devices used to accelerate electrons around the synchrotron’s ring at the facility in Jordan. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) GeekWire’s Alan Boyle reports on a $90 million science project with a diplomatic twist in Jordan, one of the stops on this summer’s Middle East
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In 2010, physicists in Germany reported that they had made an exceptionally precise measurement of the size of the proton, the positively charged building block of atomic nuclei. The result was very puzzling. Randolf Pohl of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and collaborators had measured the proton using special hydrogen atoms in which
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