Here’s how cool a star can be and still achieve lasting success
If you want to be a successful star by making the minimum possible effort, aim for a surface temperature about a quarter of the...
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Everyone maps numbers in space. But why don’t we all use the same directions?
Consider a ruler, a timeline or even weights lined up in a gym. Why are the smaller values, the earlier times and the lighter...
50 years ago, physicists thought they found the W boson. They hadn’t
The W particle may have been found — Science News, August 21, 1971 Physicists distinguish four different kinds of force by which objects in...
How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain
Paleontologists can spend years carefully splitting rocks in search of the perfect fossil. But with a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab brain, nature did the work,...
‘Ghost games’ spotlight the psychological effect fans have on referees
When the fans are away, the home team loses its sway, new research suggests. During the 2019–2020 season, European soccer teams played in front...
These baby greater sac-winged bats babble to learn their mating songs
At least 65 million years of evolution separate humans and greater sac-winged bats, but these two mammals share a key feature of learning how...
How coronavirus vaccines still help people who already had COVID-19
Some people who have been infected with coronavirus have questioned whether they really need vaccines. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
See some of the most intriguing photos from NASA’s Perseverance rover so far
In February, NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars and went to work. The rover has seen the first flight of a Martian robot,...
With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone
With a powerful laser zap, scientists have blasted toward a milestone for nuclear fusion. A fusion experiment at the world’s biggest laser facility released...
Haiti’s citizen seismologists helped track its devastating quake in real time
On August 14, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti, triggering landslides, toppling buildings and killing at least 1,900 people, with over 9,000 people...
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