Perhaps the most analog appearance to Jupiter on Earth - Sandstorm over the Sahara
(Credit: Alexander Gerst/NASA)
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Explainer: what dust from the Sahara does to you and the planet:
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Interesting fact: Lions spend up to 20 hours per day sleeping.
(Female lions tend to sleep a bit less than male lions, though)
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Food as medicine: your brain really does want you to eat more veggies:
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Zoom into the Center of Our Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, Greg T. Bacon (STScI)
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Universal-Sci Weekly #76 is out!
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How a wing produces lift...
(Credit: xkcd)
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You too can be an astrophysicist with your new telescope:
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The world is such a different place when magnified...
Check out the royal strip of purple glowing along the edge of this Ground Beetle (Carabus serratus)
(Credit: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab)
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Life could have existed deep under the surface of Mars:
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The science of liquorice: whether you love the dark root – or hate it:
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Interesting fact: If the history of Earth was compressed to a single year, modern humans would only appear on December 31st at about 11:00 pm
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Star cluster NGC 1929, nestled in the N44 nebula about 160,000 light years from Earth. Legions of new stars are forming in this region racing through their evolutions to explode as supernovae!
(Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m)
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Scientists found 8 mysterious signals among nearby stars using AI to search for life!
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Very Handy...
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What is the maximum amount of coffee you should drink in a day?
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Incredible: The 30 Dorandus complex.
A star-forming region that has been active for 25 million years!
Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI)
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Why listening to music close to bedtime is a bad idea:
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The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide
Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems: amzn.to/38p5Sgf -AmazonAfflink
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Scientists may have discovered a piece of the puzzle explaining why intermittent fasting has so many health benefits:
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Intriguing polar vortex on Saturn's moon, Titan
Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Titan taken by Cassini. The polar vortex has been brightened/sharpened relative to the more sun-facing sides.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill)
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Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world:
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Beyond Neptune, A chunk of ice is orbiting the sun in the wrong direction:
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Artist’s impression of stars born in winds from supermassive black holes
(Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
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Interesting fact: Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in the solar system with no moons...
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What makes wine dry? It’s easy to taste, but much harder to measure:
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Interesting read
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology: amzn.to/3rSdA9y -AmazonAfflink
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Why drinking a lot of water may be the key to a longer life:
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Science, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth
- J Verne
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Interesting fact:
It only took 50 grams of gold to coat the huge 25 m2 mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Which is enough to make about 7 wedding rings)
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Taller, faster, better, stronger: wind towers are only getting bigger:
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Astonishing: Scientists have been baffled by how spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are shaped. The SOFIA telescope’s infrared observations reveal what human eyes cannot magnetic fields that follow the spiral arms
(Credit: NASA/SOFIA; NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.)
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Stunning:
This is IO, the most volcanically active world in our solar system, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft
(Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
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The demise of the dinosaurs forced stick insects into camouflage:
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