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Aomawa Shields, UC Irvine associate professor of physics and astronomy

10 billion Milky Way stars might have habitable exoplanets after all

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space
As mice learned a new behavior, researchers closely tracked synaptic connections (depicted here as small protrusions) on the dendrites of neurons.

Neurons Break Rules During Learning Process

Categories Brain & Behavior
lone tree surrounded by parched land

Drought Toppled Roman Britain Before Barbarians

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
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They Ran the Numbers: Opening For Taylor Swift Boost Careers

Categories Social Sciences

Webb Unmasks Hidden Black Hole Nearby

Categories Space
Meat illustration

Artificial Blood Vessels Unlock Lab Meat Breakthrough

Categories Technology
Illustration representing potential online harms Credit: Nuthawut Somsuk via Getty

Science Lags Behind Breakneck Tech Development

Categories Social Sciences, Technology
Transmission spectrum of the habitable zone exoplanet K2-18 b using the JWST MIRI spectrograph. Credit: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan

Alien Life Signs Detected on Distant World

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space
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Deadly Bird Flu Shatters Patagonian Seal Recovery

Categories Life & Non-humans
This artist’s impression shows the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b in its unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs. Unlike most planets, it follows a polar orbit—moving at a right angle to the plane in which its host stars orbit each other. While polar planets have been found around single stars, and polar discs of gas and dust (which can form planets) have been seen around binary systems, this is the first strong evidence of an actual planet in a polar orbit around two stars. The discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Though the two brown dwarfs appear as one point of light in the sky, astronomers identified them as a binary pair because they periodically eclipse one another. Using the VLT’s UVES spectrograph, researchers measured changes in the stars’ orbital speed over time. After ruling out other causes, they concluded that the gravitational pull of a planet in a polar orbit best explains the observed motion.

Planet Found Orbiting Sideways Around Twin Stars

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space

AI-powered robots help tackle Europe’s growing e-waste problem

Categories Bloggers

Hera’s Mars & Moon Close-Up

Categories Space

Space Antenna Breakthrough Slashes Hardware Needs

Categories Space
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