Stunning Image of 'Space Butterfly' Thousands of Light Years Away Captured by Astronomers - News18 The high temperatures are because of the large amounts of radiation from the nebula's star, which causes the hydrogen gas in the nebula to glow in a reddish halo around the oxygen gas, in blue. More...

Humans will set foot on Mars this century, predicts space exploration scientist - techtoday19 A British scientist at the heart of the Mars exploration mission predicts humans will set foot on the Red Planet in this century. NASA's Perseverance space programme aims to uncover the secrets of the second smallest planet in the solar system and shed light … More...

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Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxy - Phys.org New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low 1.6% oxygen abundance, breaking the previous record of the lowest abundance. The measured oxygen abund… More...

Sperm have fooled scientists for 350 years — they spin not swim - The Next Web Sperm is critical for the fertilization of almost every living organism on our planet, including humans. To reproduce, human sperm have to swim a distance equivalent to climbing Mount ... More...

Fossilized Woolly Mammoth Feces Found Alongside Exceptionally Well-Preserved Siberian Skeleton - Newsweek More...

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Oriole hybridization is a dead end: study - Phys.org A half-century of controversy over two popular bird species may have finally come to an end. In one corner: the Bullock's Oriole, found in the western half of North America. In the other corner: the Baltimore Oriole, breeding in the eastern half. Where their … More...

Astonishing immunity exhibited by deep-sea anglerfishes during mating becomes understandable - News Landed Researchers examined anglerfishes and said their immune system was strange among the tens of thousands of vertebrate species. More...

ALMA captures stirred-up planet factory - Phys.org Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic than previously expected. This is evidenced by a new image of the star RU Lup, made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). More...

Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job - NASA Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes they have shown that passive black hole behavior may explain a remarkable torre… More...

Beetles don’t die after being eaten by predator, video shows. They crawl out its butt - Lexington Herald Leader More...

SpaceX Just Completed a Static Fire of Starship Prototype SN5. Next Comes the Hop - Universe Today SpaceX successfully completed a static fire test with its SN5, which will be followed shortly by a hop test! More...

Asthma Drug Can Boost Sprint and Strength Performance – “Would Change the Outcome of Most Athletic Competitions” - SciTechDaily Unclear if World Anti-Doping Agency 'approved' versions have same effect, finds evidence review. A type of asthma drug, known as ß2-agonists, can boost sprint and strength performance in athletes who don't have the respiratory condition, finds a review and po… More...

Katie Mack: 'Knowing how the universe will end is freeing' - BBC News Astrophysicist Katie Mack has been researching The End of Everything. More...

How 100-million-year-old microbes were brought back to life - Wired.co.uk “This is sediment that was already tens of millions of years old when the dinosaurs died out. So this is damn-old stuff” More...

Incredible images show huge ‘Sturgeon Moon’ lighting up the UK night sky - Evening Standard Spectacular full moon treats Brits to dazzling night sky show More...

New kind of Higgs boson events detected at the Large Hadron Collider - Tech Explorist The first of a new kind of Higgs boson events have been detected at the Large Hadron Collider, refining the search for new physics. More...

Cooling of Earth caused by eruptions not meteors; Researchers - Sentinelassam - The Sentinel Assam Analysis of sediment found in a central Texas cave in the US shows volcanic eruptions responsible... More...

A set of schoolgirls in India have seen a newly-detected asteroid - World Top Trend A set of schoolgirls in India have seen a newly-detected asteroid........................,.................................................... More...

Space Butterfly! Stunning images of a rare cosmic event captured by the ESO - The Financial Express More...

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'Gnarly' tumour: New research shows this herbivorous dinosaur got cancer too - Hindustan Times The malformation was a manifestation of osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer, making this Centrosaurus, which lived 76 million years ago, the first known example of a dinosaur afflicted by malignant cancer. More...

NASA's Lucy mission passes critical mission milestone - Phys.org Last week marked the completion of a major milestone on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for NASA's Lucy mission. More...

A Grim Prediction Gave These Ice Caps 5 Years. They Didn't Even Last That Long – ScienceAlert - Syria News Scientists don't always like being right: take the team that warned in a paper published in 2017 that the St. Patrick Bay ice caps in Canada would soon disappear, for example. The latest NASA satellit More...

The quiet Sun is much more active than we thought - ZEE5 News Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): Solar activity varies in 11-year cycles. As the activity cycle switches to a new one, the Sun is usually very calm for several years. More...

NOAA Satellite Watches Smoke From Apple Fire Spread – Driven by High Temperatures, Strong Winds - SciTechDaily On August 2, 2020, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 (GOES-17) acquired this image of the Apple Fire as it raged near San Bernardino National Forest. GOES-17 is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); NAS… More...

PredaSAR may launch 48 satellites with SpaceX, exec says - SpaceNews Synthetic aperture radar startup PredaSAR has signed a contract to launch a small satellite with SpaceX, and is in discussions to launch its entire first constellation with the company, PredaSAR co-founder Marc Bell, said Aug 4. More...

Radio telescopes find extrasolar planet around main-sequence star - ANI News Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): An international team of astronomers including Gisela Ortiz-Leon from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn discovered a Saturn-like planet orbiting a small, cool star by detecting the "wobble" in the … More...

Surprisingly dense exoplanet challenges planet formation theories - Nanowerk Weighing in at 25 Earth-masses, and slightly smaller than Neptune, this exoplanet's existence is at odds with the predictions of leading planet formation theories. More...

Explained: A method proposed for converting PPE into biofuels - The Indian Express The researchers call for PPE waste to be converted into fuel using chemical a process called pyrolysis. More...

Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers - Space Ref Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers - SpaceRef More...

Science proves that microwaves suck at almost everything - BGR Scientists have conclusively proven that microwaves suck, while also solving a major issue that comes with heating liquids in the microwave. A special glass with a silver ring can heat liquids more evenly in a microwave, the researchers say. There’s still no … More...

Local astronaut Bob Behnken discusses recent SpaceX mission to ISS - FOX 2 St. Louis More...

Prototype of SpaceX’s future Starship rocket flies short hop to 500 feet - The Verge SpaceX successfully flew a prototype of its next-generation, deep-space rocket at the company’s test facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The test sent the vehicle up to 500 feet before it landed back down on Earth. More...