text: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, technology was way cooler than it is in our reality: Commercial spaceships bending space-time to cross galaxies in seconds; autonomous androids capable of translating any language on the fly, or leaving a battlefield in ruin; deadly swords of plasma that fit comfortably under your bathrobe. … Read more
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  The secret ingredient for fossil preservation at a famous French site would not be found in a Julia Child cookbook. It was a sticky goo made by microalgae, researchers suggest. An analysis of roughly 22-million-year-old spider fossils from a fossil-rich rock formation in Aix-en-Provence, France, reveals that the arachnids' bodies were coated with a tarry … Read more
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  Since Russia first invaded Ukraine nearly three weeks ago, the threat of nuclear weapon use has risen. This was made clear on Feb. 27, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country's nuclear forces had been placed on "high alert," the Associated Press reported. The current situation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic … Read more
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  This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Idan GinsburgAcademic Faculty in Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University "I see thy glory like a shooting star." So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future in Shakespeare's "Richard II." Shooting … Read more
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  "Lucky Find" by Astrophysicists Explains How Galaxies Can Exist Without Dark Matter
  In simulations, collisions cause smaller star groupings to lose material. In a new Nature Astronomy study, an international team led by astrophysicists from the University of California, Irvine, and Pomona College report how, when tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter – matter that … Read more
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