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A Tiny Leak Led to a Massive, Unexpected Collapse at Kilauea Volcano
Its caldera’s dramatic, surprisingly slow collapse could point to other risks worldwide
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Now Hear This: New Fossils Reveal Early Ear-Bone Evolution
A change in chewing led to the emergence of the mammalian middle ear
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Can We Identify Invasive Species before They Invade?
Scientists uncover patterns that predict which insects will harm North America’s conifers
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Police Killings of Unarmed Black Americans May Affect Health of Black Infants
Maternal stress arising from perceived racial discrimination could cause premature births and lower birth weights
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Signs of life: New field guide aids astronomers' search
A senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide.
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Closest-ever approach to the sun gives new insights into the solar wind
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the sun than any mission before, has found new evidence of the origins of the solar wind.
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Missing Link Found for How Modern Humans Evolved Friendly Faces
A genetic condition helps uncover how modern human mugs came to differ from those of Neandertals
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Sun's close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles
Outbursts of energetic particles that hurtle out from the sun and can disrupt space communications may be even more varied and numerous than previously thought, according to results from the closest-ever flyby of the sun.
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Hidden giant planet revealed around tiny white dwarf star
The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been found in the form of a disc of gas formed from its evaporating atmosphere.
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Parker Solar Probe traces solar wind to its source on sun's surface: coronal holes
New data from the Parker Solar Probe, which got closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, allowed physicists to map the source of a major component of the solar wind that continually peppers Earth. The slow solar wind seems to emerge from coronal holes along the sun's equator. Data also reveal strange magnetic field reversals that could be accelerating solar wind particles, and an unexpectedly dense shroud of comet dust around the sun.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe sheds new light on the sun
Since its 2018 launch, NASA's Parker Solar Probe (record-holder for closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun) has finished three of 24 planned passes through never-before-explored parts of the Sun's atmosphere. Four new articles describe what scientists have learned from its unprecedented exploration, and what they look forward to learning next.
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Black Hole Factories May Hide at Cores of Giant Galaxies
Gravitational-wave astronomers are probing the origins of abnormally massive black holes—and with them, the inner workings of their colossal galactic homes
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Exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
Astronomers have captured a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive emission of dust, ice and gases during the close approach of comet 46P/Wirtanen in late 2018.
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Detecting solar flares, more in real time
Computers can learn to find flares and other events in vast streams of solar images to help forecasters issue timely alerts, according to a new study. The machine-learning technique searches satellite data for features significant for space weather. Changing conditions on the Sun can affect various technologies on Earth, blocking radio communications, damaging power grids, and diminishing navigation system accuracy.
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Gas giant composition not determined by host star
A surprising analysis of the composition of gas giant exoplanets and their host stars shows that there isn't a strong correlation between their compositions when it comes to elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. This finding has important implications for our understanding of the planetary formation process.
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may offer insights for Earth
Scientists studying the weather and climate of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have reported a significant seasonal variation in its energy budget, a finding which could yield new insights into climate on Earth.
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Cookie-Cutter Suburbs Could Help Spread Sustainable Yards
The housing governing groups can play a powerful role in encouraging environmentally friendly lawns
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Cracking 60-year-old mystery of Sun's magnetic waves
Scientists have discovered why the Sun's magnetic waves strengthen and grow as they emerge from its surface, which could help to solve the mystery of how the corona of the Sun maintains its multi-million degree temperatures.
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Solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Measurements taken by the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are providing important new insights from some of the farthest reaches of space ever explored. Astronomers now show how the solar wind -- the supersonic stream of charged particles blown out by the Sun -- evolves at increasing distances from the Sun.
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HIV-Positive Babies Fare Better When Treatment Starts at Birth
Although not practical in many areas, the approach reveals clues to how the immune system battles the infection
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