Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

— Inscription on Columbus' caravels

Astronomy

Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Reveal Ties to Prominent Scientists

Scientific American.com - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 1:00pm

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday

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If The Supernova Standard Candle Is Wrong, It Could Solve The Hubble Tension

Universe Today - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:48pm

New evidence suggests the standard model of cosmology is wrong, but the results could resolve the long-standing Hubble Tension problem in modern cosmology.

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‘Godfather of AI’ Breaks Major Science Research Record

Scientific American.com - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 12:00pm

The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar

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What Causes Cancer? Maud Slye Thought She Had the Answer and a Way to Stop It

Scientific American.com - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 11:00am

After studying mice in the 1910s, Maude Slye concluded that vulnerability to cancer was hereditary. She thought she had a solution to eliminate it, but she made some crucial mistakes

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Chinese Expedition Reveals Unexplored Section of Mysterious Arctic Ocean Ridge

Scientific American.com - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 10:00am

Oceanographers hope to find otherworldly ecosystems at hydrothermal vents on the Arctic seafloor

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The Rust That Could Reveal Alien Life

Universe Today - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 9:36am

Iron rusts. On Earth, this common chemical reaction often signals the presence of something far more interesting than just corroding metal for example, living microorganisms that make their living by manipulating iron atoms. Now researchers argue these microbial rust makers could provide some of the most promising biosignatures for detecting life on Mars and the icy moons of the outer Solar System.

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The Search for Worlds in the Making

Universe Today - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 9:22am

Astronomers have deployed a survey with the most memorable and tasty acronym in astrophysics - SPAM, The Search for Protoplanets with Aperture Masking - to catch planets in the act of being born. Using Keck Observatory's most powerful instruments, researchers have just captured the closest ever view of a protoplanetary disk 400 light years away, revealing a telltale gap and clumpy structures that hint at a world coalescing from interstellar dust.

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The Universe is Decelerating and Standard Candles Aren't So Standard According to a New Study

Universe Today - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 8:47am

A new study argues that the Universe is decelerating, based on a correlation between the brightness of Type-Ia supernovae and the age of their host galaxies.

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Brazil gears up to harness ESA’s Biomass data

ESO Top News - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 8:10am

As the COP30 climate conference gets underway in Brazil, the world’s attention is once again drawn to the plight of the Amazon – the planet’s largest and most vital rainforest. With the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite now in orbit, ESA is helping Brazil prepare to transform this new mission’s groundbreaking data into actionable knowledge for protecting the rainforest and confronting climate change.

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It's Time to Give the Moon Its Own Time

Universe Today - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 8:09am

Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time actually is. We define a second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom. However, according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, mass slows down these oscillations, making time appear to move more slowly for objects in large gravity wells. This distinction becomes critical as we start considering how to keep track of time between two separate gravity wells of varying strengths, such as on the Earth and the Moon. A new paper by Pascale Defraigne at the Royal Observatory of Belgium and her co-authors discusses some potential frameworks for solving that problem and settles on using the new Lunar Coordinate Time (TCL) suggested by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 7:00am
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like
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Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 7:00am
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like
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Scientists Might Soon Predict the Ocean’s Rogue Waves 

Scientific American.com - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 6:45am

An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary swells stacking up—an insight that could make prediction possible

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Analysing Hitler's DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing useful

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 5:18am
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
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Analysing Hitler's DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing useful

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 5:18am
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
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Sequencing Hitler's genome teaches us nothing useful about his crimes

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 5:18am
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
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Why aren't young people having sex any more?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 5:00am
Sexual activity in young people is on the decline, but why? And what's more, should we be worried about what this means for society and the future of the human race?
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Why aren't young people having sex any more?

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 5:00am
Sexual activity in young people is on the decline, but why? And what's more, should we be worried about what this means for society and the future of the human race?
Categories: Astronomy

Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are levelling off

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 7:01pm
Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 2025, but China’s carbon emissions appear to be reaching a peak
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Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are levelling off

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 7:01pm
Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 2025, but China’s carbon emissions appear to be reaching a peak
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