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ESA's OASIS lunar service station aims to support years of science on the Moon

ESA says OASIS is designed to provide at least 75 W by day and 15 W during lunar nights.

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Unprecedented Mitochondrial Protein Atlas Reveals 8,619 Proteins Across the Eukaryotic Tree

Nature reports researchers mapped mitochondrial proteins in six organisms; about 43% of the catalog's 3,199 families are unrecorded in Pfam.

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Unprecedented atlas explores mitochondria across the tree of life

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Arctic winter sea ice likely to shrink about 1 million square kilometers more than projected

Phys.org reports the projection draws on clues from a warmer Arctic 6,000 years ago.

2 Sources, 1d ago, updated 1d ago

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First documented green star: White dwarf WD J1330+6435 has a greenish spectrum

A post citing Live Science links the white dwarf's greenish color to calcium, lithium and sodium.

38 Sources, 55m ago, updated 55m ago

Astronomers studying white dwarf stars have made a stunning discovery — the first star that appears green to the human eye.

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Quantum simulation demonstrates Aharonov-Bohm effect using trapped-ion hybrid architecture

Phys.org reports magnetic flux completely halted matter tunneling in the simulation; a separate post describes Oxford's trapped-ion setup.

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Ten rubidium-87 atoms model Schwinger pair creation in a 1D lattice

A science-news post citing Physics 19 says two atoms on every other lattice site represent a false vacuum.

1 Source, 17d ago, first seen 17d ago

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An internal clock may explain why a fly-killing fungus kills at sunset

Science News describes a decades-old mystery: infected flies die at sunset, no matter when the fungus infects them.

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A meteorite’s magnetic record offers clues to the early solar system

Science News reports that scientists read a meteorite’s magnetic record dating to before the sun fully formed.

7 Sources, 17d ago, updated 17d ago

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Combined ATLAS–CMS Higgs-pair searches reportedly constrain Higgs self-interaction

A science news account sharing a Physical Review Letters post reports a 95% confidence upper limit on Higgs-pair production of 2.5 times the Standard Model prediction.

2 Sources, 23d ago, first seen 23d ago

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Radio waves reportedly traced directly to exoplanet Beta Pictoris b for the first time

LatestLY reports that South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope recorded natural radio signals from the gas giant, about 63 light-years away. The signals match auroral emissions linked to its magnetic field.

17 Sources, 20d ago, updated 20d ago

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Swift Observatory reportedly returns to watching for cosmic outbursts

A post says the 20-year-old observatory can still rapidly turn its X-ray and ultraviolet/optical telescopes toward a gamma-ray flare.

1 Source, 24d ago, first seen 24d ago

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California ‘fire amoeba’ reportedly reproduces at up to 63°C

Andina, citing a NASA study, reports that the hot-spring amoeba has set a heat-tolerance record among eukaryotes—organisms whose cells have a nucleus.

4 Sources, 25d ago, updated 25d ago

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Claude reportedly finds a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats

Anthropic says the system’s function and potential medical uses remain unknown. It calls the finding the first result from its new molecular biology lab, where human scientists perform all lab work.

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Tabletop water vortex reportedly gives first direct look at a Kelvin-wave turbulence cascade

A science post describes Kelvin waves as tiny helical ripples along superfluid vortices—predicted for decades but difficult to observe.

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Electrically controllable superconducting memory in UTe₂

Nature reports on a superconducting memory effect in UTe₂. A science-news account sharing the paper says current pulses switch between states that hold for hours.

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African wild dogs reportedly make Africa’s longest recorded mammal trek

A post quoting Science magazine describes sibling African wild dogs leaving Zambia’s Kafue packs and walking for months, with some establishing new ranges.

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Lunar orbiter spots McGetchin crater, 141 feet deep

NASA says a rock as big as a six-story building created the lunar crater, which is wider than the length of two football fields.

4 Sources, 28d ago, updated 28d ago

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Simulations suggest Webb’s ‘Little Red Dots’ are rapidly growing black holes

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan says ATERUI III simulations point to early-universe conditions that allowed black holes to grow at rates impossible today.

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Human brain tissue reportedly grows nearly fivefold in engineered mice

Nature reports that an experimental strategy overcomes longstanding hurdles in studying neuropsychiatric illness in lab-grown brain tissue.

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118 supernova superbubbles reportedly found in Andromeda

A science news account says the bubbles’ kinetic-energy input matches the rate at which turbulence loses energy across Andromeda’s disk.

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ESA's OASIS lunar service station aims to support years of science on the Moon

Unprecedented Mitochondrial Protein Atlas Reveals 8,619 Proteins Across the Eukaryotic Tree

Arctic winter sea ice likely to shrink about 1 million square kilometers more than projected

First documented green star: White dwarf WD J1330+6435 has a greenish spectrum

Quantum simulation demonstrates Aharonov-Bohm effect using trapped-ion hybrid architecture

Ten rubidium-87 atoms model Schwinger pair creation in a 1D lattice

An internal clock may explain why a fly-killing fungus kills at sunset

A meteorite’s magnetic record offers clues to the early solar system

Combined ATLAS–CMS Higgs-pair searches reportedly constrain Higgs self-interaction

Radio waves reportedly traced directly to exoplanet Beta Pictoris b for the first time

Swift Observatory reportedly returns to watching for cosmic outbursts

California ‘fire amoeba’ reportedly reproduces at up to 63°C

Claude reportedly finds a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats

Tabletop water vortex reportedly gives first direct look at a Kelvin-wave turbulence cascade

Electrically controllable superconducting memory in UTe₂

African wild dogs reportedly make Africa’s longest recorded mammal trek

Lunar orbiter spots McGetchin crater, 141 feet deep

Simulations suggest Webb’s ‘Little Red Dots’ are rapidly growing black holes

Human brain tissue reportedly grows nearly fivefold in engineered mice

118 supernova superbubbles reportedly found in Andromeda

Featured in

ESA's OASIS lunar service station aims to support years of science on the Moon

Unprecedented Mitochondrial Protein Atlas Reveals 8,619 Proteins Across the Eukaryotic Tree

Arctic winter sea ice likely to shrink about 1 million square kilometers more than projected

First documented green star: White dwarf WD J1330+6435 has a greenish spectrum

Quantum simulation demonstrates Aharonov-Bohm effect using trapped-ion hybrid architecture

Ten rubidium-87 atoms model Schwinger pair creation in a 1D lattice

An internal clock may explain why a fly-killing fungus kills at sunset

A meteorite’s magnetic record offers clues to the early solar system

Combined ATLAS–CMS Higgs-pair searches reportedly constrain Higgs self-interaction

Radio waves reportedly traced directly to exoplanet Beta Pictoris b for the first time

Swift Observatory reportedly returns to watching for cosmic outbursts

California ‘fire amoeba’ reportedly reproduces at up to 63°C

Claude reportedly finds a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats

Tabletop water vortex reportedly gives first direct look at a Kelvin-wave turbulence cascade

Electrically controllable superconducting memory in UTe₂

African wild dogs reportedly make Africa’s longest recorded mammal trek

Lunar orbiter spots McGetchin crater, 141 feet deep

Simulations suggest Webb’s ‘Little Red Dots’ are rapidly growing black holes

Human brain tissue reportedly grows nearly fivefold in engineered mice

118 supernova superbubbles reportedly found in Andromeda