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What is bombogenesis?
There are many forms of cyclones in the weather world that can create weather phenomena for meteorologists to study. The term "bomb cyclone" comes from the term "bombogenesis." It's a storm that intensifies rapidly and can create large impacts such as heavy snow, rain, high winds and coastal flooding.
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Western states face 'snow drought' as snowpack hits record lows
The recent winter storm did not alleviate the "snow drought" plaguing Colorado, Utah and other western states. Snowpack levels are far below average in many regions.
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Designer DNA could revolutionise cures for diseases
Fixing gene defects with designer DNA is on the horizon after Google DeepMind launched a pioneering new AI tool.
3 min readThe Telegraph
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Astronaut Had a Close Call Before His Friends Died in the Challenger Explosion. What He Remembers (Exclusive)
Former astronaut Terry Hart was onboard the space shuttle Challenger some 20 months before the disaster
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NASA and SpaceX move up launch of Crew-12 astronauts to Feb. 11 as relief crew after ISS medical evacuation
NASA and SpaceX are proceeding ahead of schedule with their next astronaut launch to the International Space Station, which is currently operating with a skeleton crew.
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NASA exoplanet probe tracks interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to gauge its spin
The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.
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Teenage girl who lived in Italy 12,000 years ago had a rare form of dwarfism, DNA study shows
In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.
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Experiment shows complex molecules can form on space dust — offering new clues to the origins of life
The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
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Dark matter shown in newest images from James Webb Space Telescope
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just published in Nature Astronomy.
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Scientists Found Human Remains That Rewrite the History of an Infamous Disease
The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was previously believed.
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How Earth's atmosphere and climate come together to create a polar vortex
To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex.
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How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
The famed physicist’s persistence led him to uncover shocking failures
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Space shuttle Challenger disaster remembered 40 years later
Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members aboard in a tragedy that shocked the nation and reshaped NASA's approach to space flight safety. The disaster occurred on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, as the Challenger rose into the Florida sky. Terry Hart, a former NASA astronaut who had just retired from the space agency at the time, wasn't watching the launch but quickly learned of the tragedy.
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430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools from Greece are the oldest on record — and they predate modern humans
Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.
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JWST spots most distant galaxy ever, pushing the limits of the observable universe
In a galaxy far, far away, there lie clues to the cosmic dawn—the first few hundreds of millions of years in our 13.8-billion-year-old universe’s early history. On Wednesday astronomers on announced that a bright galaxy called MoM-z14 that was found using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the farthest yet detected, existing just 280 million years after the big bang. “With Webb, we are able to see farther than humans ever have before, and it looks nothing like what we predicted, which is both challenging and exciting,” said Rohan Naidu, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the lead author of a preprint paper detailing MoM-z14’s discovery that will soon be published in the overlay journal Open Journal of Astrophysics, in a statement in NASA’s announcement.
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See the Milky Way glow with the stars of the Summer Triangle above Egypt's Black Desert
Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.
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Doomsday Clock Is Now Closer to Apocalypse Than Ever Before
The human race is mere seconds from catastrophe, according to the ominously named “Doomsday Clock,” as it ticks closer to midnight than ever before. The symbolic clock, set to its new time on January 27, was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as world tensions ballooned ...
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Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental health bible—and change how we define ‘disorder’
A massive reference book of mental health conditions known as the “bible” of psychiatry is going to change. The fifth and current version of the (DSM) lists nearly 300 distinct conditions that mental health care providers can diagnose and treat. Today the DSM’s publisher, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), announced plans to address these problems by changing how the book works.
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SpaceX targeting mid-March for 1st flight of bigger, more powerful Starship 'Version 3,' Elon Musk says
SpaceX plans to launch the 12th test flight of its Starship megarocket in six weeks, according to Elon Musk. It will be the first mission of the bigger, more powerful Starship "V3."
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Farmers devastated as key crops become harder to grow — here's what's happening
These losses mean increased prices for consumers.
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6 Graphs That Show Who’s Really Winning the US–China AI Race
From compute and talent to energy and revenue, six charts show where the U.S. leads China in AI—and why that lead could prove fragile.
5 min readTime
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European Space Agency uses AI to identify NASA's Hubble telescope anomalies
The team at the European Space Agency developed a neural network called AnomalyMatch, which analyzes patterns in images and detects unusual objects.
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Proteins before planets: How space ice may have created the 1st building blocks of life
"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly not the case."
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Roadkill is a surprising and untapped source for scientists
Millions of animals unfortunately die on roads each year, but the casualties hold important data.
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Scientists Identify an Epigenetic Switch That Can Slow Production of Fat Cells
A better understanding of fat.
3 min readScienceAlert
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NASA research plane lands on belly, sending sparks flying, after 'mechanical issue'
A NASA aircraft had to perform a "gear-up landing" in Houston due to a mechanical problem, a NASA spokesperson indicated in a post on X.
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Next-generation AI 'swarms' will invade social media by mimicking human behavior and harassing real users, researchers warn
Artificial intelligence experts have warned that AI "swarms" are poised to infiltrate social media by deploying agents that mimic human behavior and exploit our tendency to follow the herd.
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The 14,000-Year-Old Stomach: How a Wolf Puppy Solved the Mystery of the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction
Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less what happened in the northeastern corner of Siberia, thanks to tissue samples dug up deep out of the tundra’s permafrost. Researchers recently completed the world’s first sequence of the entire genome
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Giant 'metal cloud' spotted in nearby star system could be hiding a second alien sun
Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine months.
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The Schrödinger equation just turned 100, and quantum physicists are still grappling with its mysteries
A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a manuscript for publication. It tells scientists how that strange world works; that is, how quantum objects interact with their surroundings. A full century after Schrödinger penned his famous equation, scientists and philosophers are still seeking to define—and expand—its hazy boundaries.
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USThe Challenger shuttle disaster that killed 7 crew members was 40 years ago. What happened and how they're being remembered.
The diverse 7-member crew included a teacher who was going to teach lessons from space.
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Mosquitos are getting even more thirsty for human blood
The especially annoying pest is more focused on humans as other food sources disappear — and peak season is just around the corner
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NASA is preparing for simulated launch of Artemis II mega moon rocket — and it could happen as early as Saturday
NASA has announced it will fuel the Artemis II rocket as part of a simulated launch that will take place as early as Saturday (Jan. 31).
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Gerber recall: Arrowroot Biscuits pulled over potential plastic, paper pieces
Gerber announced a nationwide recall for the product due to the possible presence of soft plastic or paper material.
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How to Watch the Northern Lights for a Second Time This Week
NOAA forecasters say isolated G1 (minor) storm conditions are possible, which is just enough to spark northern lights at higher latitudes
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Google DeepMind unleashes new AI AlphaGenome to investigate DNA’s ‘dark matter’
Once disregarded as “junk DNA,” scientists now know that this molecular dark matter is crucial for determining gene activity in ways that keep us healthy—or cause disease. Exactly how this DNA shapes gene expression is a mystery—but now the AI lab Google DeepMind has built a model that it says can predict the function of long stretches of noncoding DNA. Called AlphaGenome, the model takes in sequences of up to one million DNA letters, also known as base pairs, and predicts how mutations in those stretches affect gene expression.
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Could cold temps delay Artemis launch date? NASA eyes Florida weather
NASA is keeping an eye on uncharacteristically cold weather in Florida that could thwart a potential launch of the upcoming Artemis 2 lunar mission.
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It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain
Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast. Meteorologists are also watching what could become a “ bomb cyclone ” — a quickly intensifying storm that’s a winter version of a hurricane — forming off the Carolinas Friday night into Saturday. “A major winter storm appears to be coming to the Carolinas,” said meteorologist Peter Mullinax of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Prediction Center.
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US'Shuttle kids' from Colorado recall impact of Challenger disaster 40 years later
Most people who were around in 1986 remember where they were, and what they were doing when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. The accident killed the seven crew members, and halted NASA’s space program for two years. 9NEWS Reporter Gary Shapiro and photojournalist Manny Sotelo were at Cape Canaveral, Florida, doing stories on the launch.
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This Newly Discovered Tiny New Shrew Weighs as Much as a Sugar Cube
A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might’ve been one, until a tiny new shrew species was discovered in the Ethiopian highlands. Named after an evolutionary biologist, this new shrew is captivating scientists because of its diminutive frame. How many species that small can
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'Extraordinary' trove of ancient species found in China quarry
Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday.However it came to a sudden end when up to half of all animals died off 513 million years ago.
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Google unveils AI tool probing mysteries of human genome
Google unveiled an artificial intelligence tool Wednesday that its scientists said would help unravel the mysteries of the human genome -- and could one day lead to new treatments for diseases.However the tool still represented a "breakthrough" that would allow scientists to "study and simulate the genetic roots of complex disease", Goldstone added. ber/dl/jj
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Chinese fossils show marine animals thriving half a billion years ago
Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the
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Stunning Fossil Site Reveals Life Rebounding After Major Extinction Event
60% of the species there are new to science.
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New JWST imagery dives into the center of the Milky Way
Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the highest surface temperatures of any normal stars, so they emit copious amounts of ultraviolet radiation that ionizes their surroundings. They also possess fierce stellar winds that help shape their gaseous environs. But these monster suns alsoContinue reading "New JWST imagery dives into the center of the Milky Way" The post New JWST imagery dives into the center of the Milky W
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How Artemis 2 will fly around the Moon
Artemis 2 will use the SLS to send a crew of four aboard an Orion spacecraft on a 10-day mission looping within 4,600 miles (7,400 km) of the Moon. The crew consists of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Koch will be the first womanContinue reading "How Artemis 2 will fly around the Moon" The post How Artemis 2 will fly around the Moon appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.
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Scientists Scramble to Set Up Outpost on Rapidly Melting Glacier
"We're very lucky to be here; we also work very hard to be here."
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