China conducts high-altitude reusable missile tests, with uncertain outcome
by HELSINKI – A Chinese state-owned company conducted a rocket flight late Saturday to test its reentry and land burns without announcing the outcome. The Longxing-2 …
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What we know about a mysterious condition: ScienceAlert
“You’ll think I’m crazy,” Callum said, looking down at his hands as he wrung them together in his lap. “Everything just feels like a dream. …
The Hubble tension turns into a crisis
Coma cluster. Credit: NOIRLab. Tensions continue to rise among astrophysicists over Edwin Hubble’s century-old calculations about the rate at which the universe is expanding. “The …
Strange case of a man whose skin turned gray remains a mystery: ScienceAlert
An 84-year-old man presented to a Hong Kong hospital with complications from a urinary flow obstruction, leaving doctors baffled by a seemingly unrelated grayness of …
Parkinson’s discovery suggests we could already have an FDA-approved treatment: ScienceAlert
Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 may play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson’s disease from cell to cell …
Astronomers are finding hundreds of ‘hidden’ black holes – and there could be billions or even trillions more
Astronomers have discovered hundreds of hidden supermassive black holes lurking in the universe — and there could be billions or even trillions more that we …
Scientists discover bacteria trapped in an endless evolutionary time loop: ScienceAlert
Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is transformed by the changing seasons – covered by ice in winter and algae in summer – and a new study shows …
Mystery of the summer-killing volcano solved
A climactic mystery about a year that took a deadly turn for the summer may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, scientists have …
Space photo of the week: Look into the ‘eye’ of Titan, 20 years after the historic landing of the Huygens spacecraft on Saturn’s largest moon
What it is: Saturn’s largest moon, Titan Where it is: About 750 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers) from Earth When it was shared: May 4, …
How ‘quantum foam’ may have blown up the early universe
The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this expansion was driven by a new entity …