Return of the extremely elongated cloud on Mars

A mysteriously long, thin cloud has again appeared over the 20-km-high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. A recurrent feature, the cloud is made up of water ice, but despite appearances it is not a plume linked to volcanic activity. Instead, the curious stream forms as airflow is influenced by the volcano's 'leeward' slope − the side that does not face the wind.

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New archaeological sites discovered at Gona, Ethiopia

This year Sileshi Semaw, archaeologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion humana (CENIEH), has led a new field survey and excavations at Gona (Ethiopia), where new archaeological sites have been discovered at Kilaitoli, a site dated to 14,000 years, where work began in 2019.

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Exploring the Relationship Between Internet Use and Mental Health Among Older Adults in England: Longitudinal Observational Study

Background: There is uncertainty about the impact of internet use on mental health in older adults. Moreover, there is very little known specifically about the impact of particular purposes of internet use.

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By 2035, 90 percent of the US could be powered by renewables

Despite America’s continued reliance on fossil fuels as its primary source of energy, the plummeting costs of alternative energy sources—like power harnessed from the sun or wind—is making them an increasingly viable choice on the competitive market. So much so, that a UC Berkeley report released on Tuesday argues that by 2035, 90 percent of the US could be powered by renewables.

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One Mystery of Stonehenge’s Origins Has Finally Been Solved

For more than four centuries, archaeologists and geologists have sought to determine the geographical origins of the stones used to build Stonehenge thousands of years ago. Pinning down the source of the large blocks known as sarsens that form the bulk of the monument has proved especially elusive. Now researchers have resolved the mystery: 50 of the 52 extant sarsens at Stonehenge came from the West Woods site in the English county of Wiltshire, located 25 kilometers to the north of Stonehenge. The findings were published on Wednesday in Science Advances.

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Largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

The world's biggest nuclear fusion project has entered its five-year assembly phase.

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Blood test for early Alzheimer's 'shows promise'

The test could spot the disease at the earliest stage before symptoms appear, studies suggest.

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Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets — including hints of a hidden ocean

Images of the dwarf planet’s far side are revealing possible signs of liquid water, mysterious shards of ice and new theories for the frigid world’s birth.

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NASA's next Mars rover, Perseverance, will launch Thursday. Here's how to watch.

Liftoff is scheduled for 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT).

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NASA gave the next-gen Perseverance Mars rover key upgrades over its older sibling Curiosity

The next Mars rover is the biggest and most advanced yet, with a mission to pave the way for human visitors.

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The COVID Crisis Could Lead To A Green Energy Boom

As the world grapples with the economic fallout from the COVID crisis, a growing number of governments and international agencies are calling for a green energy stimulus

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Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'

Airbus-France will build the huge satellite that brings the first Martian rock samples back to Earth. This material will be drilled on the Red Planet by the US space agency's next rover, Perseverance, before being blasted into orbit by a rocket. It'll be the Airbus satellite's job to grab the packaged samples and then ship them home.

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Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasured

Flaring, or burning, waste gas from energy production has sharply increased over the past decade. It wastes usable fuel, pollutes the air, and helps drive climate change.

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NASA's Mars 2020 rover Perseverance is 'go' for launch

Liftoff is scheduled for 7:50 a.m. EDT on Thursday (July 30).

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Dead star emits never-before seen mix of radiation

ESA’s Integral helps unravel origin of Fast Radio BurstsA global collaboration of telescopes including ESA’s Integral high-energy space observatory has detected a unique mix of radiation bursting from a dead star in our galaxy — something that has never been seen before in this type of star, and may solve a long-standing cosmic mystery. 

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Molten Salt Reactors Are Nuclear's Future. How Do We Get There?

A new breakthrough could help engineers truly crack the next phase of nuclear energy.

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Airbus' self-flying plane just completed successful taxi, take-off, and landing tests, opening the door for fully autonomous flight

Airbus finished the tests in June after its first autonomous take-off in December, paving the way for pilot-less passenger flights in the future.

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Study identifies top reasons for sewer line failure

Concrete sewer pipes around the world are most likely to fail either because their concrete is not strong enough or because they can’t handle the weight of trucks that drive over them, a new study indicates.

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Lockdown has made the nation happier, study finds

‘Lockdown may be the single most effective action a government can take during a pandemic to maintain psychological welfare,’ says researcher

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Existing evidence suggests face coverings do not lead to false sense of security

Existing limited evidence suggests that wearing face coverings to protect against COVID-19 does not lead to a false sense of security and is unlikely to increase the risk of infection through wearers foregoing other behaviours such as good hand hygiene, say researchers from the University of Cambridge and King’s College London.

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Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates

Naturally occurring lithium in public drinking water may have an anti-suicidal effect – according to a new study from Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London.

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Rewilding Britain: the plan to restore an area the size of Manchester

A new nature network wants to rewild 300,000 acres of land in the UK, in a bid to boost biodiversity and tackle climate change

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Longevity study reveals why ancient trees can stave off death

Earth's oldest trees have been rooted for millennia. Why they can live so long is explained in a new review.

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Biden plots $2tn green revolution but faces wind and solar backlash

Joe Biden’s $2tn plan to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from the US electricity grid within 15 years has been applauded by climate campaigners, but the enormous overhaul will have to pick its way through a minefield of community as well as lobbyist opposition.

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Machine learning reveals recipe for building artificial proteins

Proteins are essential to the life of cells, carrying out complex tasks and catalyzing chemical reactions. Scientists and engineers have long sought to harness this power by designing artificial proteins that can perform new tasks, like treat disease, capture carbon, or harvest energy, but many of the processes designed to create such proteins are slow and complex, with a high failure rate.

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Neandertals may have had a lower threshold for pain

Pain is mediated through specialized nerve cells that are activated when potentially harmful things affect various parts of our bodies. These nerve cells have a special ion channel that has a key role in starting the electrical impulse that signals pain and is sent to the brain. According to a new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden people who inherited the Neandertal variant of this ion channel experience more pain.

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U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants for moon and Mars

The U.S. wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and Mars, and on Friday put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how to do that. The U.S. Department of Energy put out the formal request to build what it calls a fission surface power system that could allow humans to live for long periods in harsh space environments.

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Well-preserved mammoth skeleton found in Siberian lake

Russian scientists are working to retrieve a well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth from a lake in northern Siberia

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Scientists accidentally create the "sturddlefish" — a new fish hybrid from two endangered species

Meet the sturddlefish: a new species of fish accidentally created by scientists in Hungary. It's an unusual mix of two endangered species, the American Paddlefish and the Russian Sturgeon. According to a study published in the journal Genes, researchers at Hungary's National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture said that they were not trying to create a new fish when the sturddlefish was born. Rather, they just wanted to know if the two species could be bred in captivity — and were shocked when the resulting fish actually grew to adulthood.

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Rare Views Of Comet NEOWISE ‘Completely Photobombed’ By Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink Satellites

Images are emerging online of Comet NEOWISE—a spectacular comet from the outer Solar System on a once-in-6,800 years journey into the inner Solar System—that also show Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. An image created by Daniel López of El Cielo de Canarias (The Sky of The Canary Islands), published on Facebook and circulated on Twitter by astronomer Julien Girard shows Comet NEOWISE being “completely photobombed” by dozens of the unexpectedly bright satellites:

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Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves

If you're thinking of creating a massive conspiracy, you may be better scaling back your plans, according to an Oxford University researcher. While we can all keep a secret, a study by Dr David Robert Grimes suggests that large groups of people sharing in a conspiracy will very quickly give themselves away. The study is published online by journal PLOS ONE.

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Scientists discover volcanoes on Venus are still active

A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the work, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland and the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, was published in the journal Nature Geoscience on July 20, 2020.

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Why Japan is emerging as NASA’s most important space partner

Japan provides a few major advantages in helping the US get back to the moon. In return, it will get its own chance to set foot on the lunar surface.

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Experts Say Near Earth Asteroid Due To Come Within 300 Miles Of Earth In November Not A Concern Yet

There's a video on Youtube saying we are about to have another "very-close encounter" with an asteroid.

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New study links the fear of missing out to Instagram addiction

A new study in Psychological Reports suggests that personality influences how people use social media

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This new ultrahard material inspired by nature could make uncuttable bike locks

Bike locks don’t work well: More than two million bikes are stolen each year in North America alone. Even when a lock might slow down a thief, it’s fairly easy to finish the job in a crowded city, even with lots of people paying attention, as these old viral videos repeatedly demonstrated. But a new material—the first artificial material that can’t be cut—may change that.

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Leah Remini Wants to Expose Tom Cruise’s Dark Side

The “King of Queens” actress and ex-Scientologist, along with fellow whistleblower Mike Rinder, open up about Scientology’s most famous member.

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China is about to launch a trio of spacecraft to Mars — including a rover

China could be the second country to operate a rover on Mars.

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This Bizarre River of Black Sludge in Arizona Is Totally Real

On 15 July 2020, what looked like your typical dry waterway was engulfed by a sickening dust puffing black sludge, reminiscent of the villainous cartoon toxin, Hexxus from FernGully: The Last Rainforest.

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Mexican Cave Find Hints That People Lived in North America 30,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists in Mexico found stone tools and other signs that people were living in North America 30,000 years ago, much earlier than widely believed.

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Dogs may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate

A team of researchers from Czech University of Life Sciences, Virginia Tech and Barry University has found evidence that suggests dogs may use Earth's magnetic field as a navigational aid. In their paper in the eLife Sciences initiative, the group describes their study of dog navigation and what they learned from it.

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Narcissistic personalities linked to defiance of coronavirus prevention guidelines and hoarding

New research has found that people with "dark" personality characteristics, such as psychopathy and narcissism, are less likely to comply with efforts

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I Am a Model and I Know That Artificial Intelligence Will Eventually Take My Job

Shudu Gram is a striking South African model. She’s what fashion likes to call “one to watch,” with a Balmain campaign in 2018, a feature in Vogue Australia on changing the face of fashion, and a red carpet appearance at the 2019 BAFTAs in a custom Swarovski gown.

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Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply | Quanta Magazine

By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.

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AI in physics: are we facing a scientific revolution?

An AI reconstructs Newton's second law and discovers a previously unknown formula for mass calculation of dark matter.

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Playing video games doesn't lead to violent behaviour, study shows

Analysis of 28 global studies dating back to 2008 found a minuscule positive correlation

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There Are Sharks Living in a Volcano, for the Love of God

“Sharkcano” isn’t the latest trashy summer movie with bad special effects. It’s the very real phenomenon of sharks making a home in lava water, and now a Nat Geo special.

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Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear

The assay looks for stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver malignancies

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Gedmatch investigating after users DNA profile made available to police

Gedmatch, the DNA analysis site that police used to catch the so-called Golden State Killer, was pulled briefly offline on Sunday while its parent company investigated how its users’ DNA profile data apparently became available to law enforcement searches.

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Interstellar space travel will have language complications for astronauts

Communicating with the homeworld may be tough.

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