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Don’t miss the 2025 full “Strawberry Moon” when it rises above the southeastern horizon on June 10. The Stunning ‘Strawberry Moon’ Will Illuminate the…
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What Are Fire Rainbows? Discover the Science Behind This Stunning Phenomenon Despite their name, fire rainbows are neither rainbows nor related to fire. Scientifically…
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Trees From Space: A New Early Warning System for Volcanic Eruptions When Chile’s Chaitén Volcano erupted in May 2008—its first eruption in 9,000 years—scientists…
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Astronomers Face a Cosmic Puzzle: The Persistent Hubble Tension In recent years, astronomers have been wrestling with a cosmic mystery that challenges our basic…
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On June 1, 2025, at 9:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, instruments recorded a geomagnetic K-index of 8, nearing the rare level of 9—typically only…
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Perhaps the most surprising scientific discovery of the last decade is that the Universe is teeming with black holes. They’ve been detected in a…
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As a physicist, I of course love and appreciate all the little particles. Each particle species has its own role to play in the…
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Another day, another rocket launch. So many, in fact, it’s easy to get blasé. In 2023, almost 200 rockets lifted off from Earth, carrying…
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We’ve all seen it so often in science-fiction movies that the concept seems utterly plausible: a character enters a command and their starship leaps…
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Humans have long sought ways to measure the world we live in. Having systems of measurement, and of units, helps us understand ourselves and…
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