Nothing is the bridge between the future and the further future. Nothing is certainty. Nothing is any definition of anything.

— Peter Hammill

Astronomy

First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know

Scientific American.com - 4 hours 18 min ago

H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different type of bird flu has also caused a death

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How far can you see?


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Dione and Rhea Ring Transit

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Seen to the left of Saturn's banded planetary disk, small icy moons


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3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth

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Now outbound after its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun


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Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka

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Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka


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Sometimes the dark dust of interstellar space has an angular elegance.


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What does the Milky Way look like in radio waves?


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What created this unusual space sculpture?


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MAHA Summit Features Talk of Psychedelics and Immortality

Scientific American.com - 5 hours 28 min ago

The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by RFK, Jr., and J.D. Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving U.S. health policy

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Hayli Gubbi Volcano Erupts in Ethiopia for First Time in More Than 12,000 Years

Scientific American.com - 5 hours 58 min ago

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, long thought to be dormant, sent ash nine miles into the sky in an eruption on Sunday

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China to Launch Rescue Shenzhou-22 Spacecraft for Stranded Astronauts

Scientific American.com - 7 hours 18 min ago

The Shenzhou-22 spacecraft is set to launch November 25

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How Bad Will Flu Season Be This Year?

Scientific American.com - 7 hours 43 min ago

U.S. flu rates remain low, but experts are keeping an eye on a new strain that’s been linked to unexpectedly early and severe seasons in several other countries

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GLP-1 Pill Fails to Slow Alzheimer’s Progression in Clinical Trial

Scientific American.com - 8 hours 13 min ago

Top-line results from two large clinical trials by Novo Nordisk, the company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, found oral semaglutide failed to slow down Alzheimer's progression

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City Lights and Atmospheric Glow

NASA Image of the Day - 9 hours 15 min ago
The atmospheric glow blankets southern Europe and the northwestern Mediterranean coast, outlined by city lights. At left, the Po Valley urban corridor in Italy shines with the metropolitan areas of Milan and Turin and their surrounding suburbs.
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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum cause and effect could bridge the gap
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Thirty Meter Telescope Considers Move to Spain

Sky & Telescope Magazine - 11 hours 28 min ago

Spain’s offer to host the powerful observatory, mired in funding obstacles and local controversies, might promise a new path forward.

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The Box vs The Bulldozer: The Story of Two Space Gas Stations

Universe Today - 13 hours 40 min ago

Using in-situ propellant has been a central pillar of the plan to explore much of the solar system. The logic is simple - the less mass (especially in the form of propellant) we have to take out of Earth’s gravity well, the less expensive, and therefore more plausible, the missions requiring that propellant will be. However, a new paper from Donald Rapp, the a former Division Chief Technologist at NASA’s JPL and a Co-Investigator of the successful MOXIE project on Mars, argues that, despite the allure of creating our own fuel on the Moon, it might not be worth it to develop the systems to do so. Mars, on the other hand, is a different story.

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Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?

There are widespread concerns that deep-sea mining for metals will damage fragile ecosystems. But if mining ever goes ahead, hydrogen plasma could shrink the carbon footprint of smelting the metal ores
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Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 14 hours 12 min ago
There are widespread concerns that deep-sea mining for metals will damage fragile ecosystems. But if mining ever goes ahead, hydrogen plasma could shrink the carbon footprint of smelting the metal ores
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Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

Analysis of the DNA and proteins of a range of animals has revealed that sperm’s molecular toolkit arose in our single-celled ancestors, perhaps more than a billion years ago
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