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Earth is reflecting less light. It's not clear if that's a trend

Oct 14 2021 6:00 AM

A decrease in Earth's reflectance shows our planet is absorbing more solar radiation, but it's not clear if the trend will last.

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A Jupiter-like planet orbiting a white dwarf hints at our solar system's future

Oct 13 2021 11:00 AM

A new planet is the first ever discovered that is orbiting a white dwarf and resembles Jupiter in both its mass and its distance from its star.

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Huge numbers of fish-eating jaguars prowl Brazil's wetlands

Oct 13 2021 7:00 AM

Jaguars in the northern Pantanal ecosystem primarily feed on fish and caiman, living at densities previously unknown for the species.

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Nostalgia may have bona fide benefits in hard times, like the pandemic

Oct 12 2021 11:57 AM

Once described as a disease, nostalgia's reputation is much improved. Researchers hope to develop mental health therapies that trigger these memories.

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The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever seen rotates once every 25 seconds

Oct 12 2021 6:00 AM

A white dwarf star that spins every 25 seconds owes its record-breaking rotation rate to a companion star dumping gas onto it.

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Methods of getting results from real-world experiments win 2021 economics Nobel

Oct 11 2021 12:45 PM

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens share the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing a science of naturally occurring social studies.

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The earliest evidence of tobacco use dates to over 12,000 years ago
Oct 11 2021 11:00 AM

Burned seeds at an archaeological site in Utah hint at tobacco's popularity long before it was domesticated.

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Dog DNA reveals ancient trade network connecting the Arctic to the outside world
Oct 08 2021 9:00 AM

People in Siberia were exchanging canines and probably other goods as early as 7,000 years ago with cultures as far off as Europe and the Near East.

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How catching birds bare-handed may hint at Neandertals' hunting tactics
Oct 08 2021 7:00 AM

By pretending to be Neandertals, researchers show that the ancient hominids likely had the skills to easily hunt crowlike birds called choughs.

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China's lunar rock samples show lava flowed on the moon 2 billion years ago
Oct 07 2021 2:45 PM

The first lunar rocks returned to Earth in more than 40 years show that the moon was volcanically active later than scientists thought.

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How our SN 10 scientists have responded to tumultuous times
Oct 07 2021 9:00 AM

COVID-19, social justice movements and the realities of climate change have given our Scientists to Watch new perspective.

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Giant ground sloths may have been meat-eating scavengers
Oct 07 2021 5:00 AM

Contrary to previous assumptions, at least one ancient giant ground sloth was a meat eater.

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An easier, greener way to build molecules wins the chemistry Nobel Prize
Oct 06 2021 11:57 AM

Chemists Benjamin List and David MacMillan have sparked a whole new field that's aided drug discovery and made chemistry more environmentally friendly.

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When James Webb launches, it will have a bigger to-do list than 1980s researchers suspected
Oct 06 2021 10:52 AM

The James Webb Space Telescope has been in development for so long that space science has changed in the meantime.

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Space rocks may have bounced off baby Earth, but slammed into Venus
Oct 06 2021 6:00 AM

New simulations suggest a way to help explain dramatic differences between the sibling worlds.

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Work on complex systems, including Earth's climate, wins the physics Nobel Prize
Oct 05 2021 11:05 AM

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann pioneered work on computer simulations of Earth's climate. Giorgio Parisi found hidden patterns in disordered complex materials.

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