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Environment
Climate change will result in 41 days of dangerous heat around the world in 2024
Written by Alexa St. John City of Miami outreach specialist Ricky Reese works with the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust to distribute water and other supplies to homeless residents and help manage high temperatures with Bei Zhao, right. ) (May) 15, 2024, Miami. Credit: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File Human-induced climate change has caused people around the world to suffer an average…
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Space & Cosmos
As a result of a cosmic upheaval, a new star is about to be born in the sky
Anthony R. Wood, The Philadelphia Inquirer Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Astrophysicists say that any moment now, a new star as bright as Polaris will appear in the night sky — the result of a cosmic explosion that happened thousands of years ago in a distant constellation. NASA scientist Rebecca Hounsell calls it a “once-in-a-lifetime event that will spawn many new…
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Space & Cosmos
Mars’ unique shape may be the result of a long-lost moon, according to a new hypothesis.
Mars is being deformed by its putative moon Nerio. Source: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.14725 A U.S. Naval Observatory astronomer has come up with a hypothesis to explain Mars’ unique shape and topography, both of which he suggests are the result of a long-lost moon. Michael Efroymsky has published a paper outlining his hypothesis on the arXiv preprint server. Previous studies…
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