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Black Hole Photobombs Asteroid

X-ray outburst from the black hole MAXI J0637-043. Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/MIT/HarvardThe OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set out on September 8, 2016...

A Quarter of All Climate Tweets Come From Bots—and They’re More Likely to Peddle Denial

Arguably, this is the most famous climate denier on Twitter.Photo: GettyThe bots are taking over, man. Researchers have found that...

World’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Funder Notes Climate Change Could End ‘Human Life as We Know it’

Photo: GettyThe finance industry is issuing some of the direst warnings about climate change while funding the industry most responsible...

The Best Sources for COVID-19 Information

Times Square on March 7, 2020.Photo: Kena Betancur ((AFP via Getty Images)The reality of covid-19 has finally started to hit...

Scientists Who Created Order From Randomness Win Prestigious Mathematics Prize

2020 Abel Prize laureates Hillel Furstenberg (left) and Gregory Margulis (right)Photo: Dan RezettiScientists Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis have won...

Paleontologists Are Skeptical About Baby Dinosaur Cells Supposedly Found in Fossil

Artist’s reconstruction of the nesting ground of Hypacrosaurus stebingeri. A deceased Hypacrosaurus nestling can be seen with the back of...

A Powerful New Telescope Is About to Get Screwed by Elon Musk’s Starlink Constellation, Research Suggests

The Rubin Observatory currently under construction in Chile.Image: Rubin ObservatoryAs astronomers eagerly await the opening of the Vera C. Rubin...

What You Need to Know About Honeywell’s New Quantum Computer

Part of Honeywell’s quantum device.Photo: HoneywellBusiness conglomerate and defense contractor Honeywell announced today that it will bring what it claims...

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