A galaxy whose light has traveled nearly 13.5 billion years to reach us has just been confirmed as the earliest galaxy found to date. By studying the oxygen content of the galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have precisely dated it to just 367 million years after the Big Bang, a time …
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Summary: The “love hormone” oxytocin may not play as critical a role in bonding as previously believed. Removing the oxytocin receptor in animal models still resulted in monogamous mating, attachment, and parental bonding behaviors, although females without the receptor produced milk in smaller quantities. Findings reveal parenting and bonding aren’t purely dictated by oxytocin receptors. …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years. The dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times, according to NASA. It will come within 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of Earth Wednesday before speeding away again, unlikely to return for millions of years. So do look up, contrary …
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The green comet is visible in the night sky now. It’s best viewed in the early-morning hours. Binoculars or a small telescope are recommended. A green comet is speeding past Earth right now – here are some things to know about it. When To See It It’s visible in the night sky through the middle …
Asteroid Ryugu – Image taken at 20km on 26 June 2018, diameter 870 m. Credit: Hayabusa2/JAXA A large international collaboration utilized the Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to examine grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid in order to improve our understanding of the evolution of our solar system. A team of researchers …
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Electrons in silicon experience a coupling between their spin (up and down arrows) and valley states (blue and red orbitals). In the presence of a DC voltage (blue glow) an electron can undergo coherent spin-valley oscillation. Image credit: Mike Osadciw. In recent years, many physicists and computer scientists have been working on the development of …
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The mineral heliotrope, popularly known as bloodstone, is a type of quartz that has attracted a particularly rich vein of stories and legends that date back at least as far as Roman times. Perhaps the most interesting thing about these is that at least one is easy to test, yet people keep on believing it …
Great balls of fire! Blazing meteorites from the outer regions of the solar system triggered life on Earth 4.6 billion years ago By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com Published: 22:33 GMT, 27 January 2023 | Updated: 22:33 GMT, 27 January 2023 Great balls of fire from the outer regions of the solar system brought the building …
The infant universe was nothing like the cosmos we see today. Early on, it was dark: no stars and no galaxies, just a simmering celestial soup. But hundreds of millions of years after the big bang, the first galaxies formed—exactly how is a mystery—and kicked off an evolutionary sequence that populated the cosmos with galaxies, …
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Asteroid 2023 BU zipped past Earth Thursday night (Jan. 26) to the delight of amateur astronomers worldwide. For skywatchers without access to a telescope or those who had their view hampered by bad weather, luckily the Italy-based Virtual Telescope Project was there to observe the event and livestream the whole thing for free. The Virtual …
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