Science

Uncertain Climate Future Could Disrupt Energy Systems

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Climate variability could create a gap between total energy...

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Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-size black hole

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Intermediate-mass black hole with torn-apart star (artist's impression).

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Electron-eating neon causes star to collapse

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Figure 1: An artist’s impression shows how an imaginary Neon footballfish (having Neon-Sign) eats away at the...

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Medium Monster, Big Mystery

When you pick out a new shirt in the store, you must first find your size: small, medium, or large. Did you know that the dark monsters of the Universe, black holes, also come in different sizes?

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Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanets

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This illustration shows the concept of gravitational microlensing. When one star in the sky...

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Distant Metals Reveal the Universe’s Evolution

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This optical/infrared/X-ray composite image of M82 reveals how outflows from a galaxy can enrich the circumgalactic medium that surrounds...

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New Technique Looks for Dark Matter Traces in Dark Places

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Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution across Europe

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Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over France...

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