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A 90 km-bike tour yesterday took me through the Franconian Alb in northern Bavaria. Lots of limestone, and steep hills with chapels on them.

 

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Ryan Crouser, the only three-time Olympic gold medal shot putter

 

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Ouninpohja stage, World Rally Championship, Finland

 

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ur may be visible as the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on Sunday and Monday (Aug. 11 and Aug. 12). The annual shower is linked to debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle. Read More​

History & Archaeology (Sahar Saleem) 'Screaming Woman' mummy suffered a painful death in ancient Egypt, virtual autopsy finds The mummy was well preserved with an expensive embalming material. Her organs were still intact, showing an unusual mummification technique, a CT scan revealed. Read More​

Planet Earth (Jean-Denis JOUBERT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Volcano in Tanzania with weirdest, runniest magma on Earth is sinking into the ground Tanzania's outlandish Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, the only volcano on Earth that is currently erupting carbonatite lava, has been sinking at a rate of 1.4 inches per year for the past decade. Read More​

Space (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CfA)) James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive. Read More​ How many galaxies are in the universe? (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain), J. D’Silva (U. Western Australia), A. Koekemoer (STScI), J. Summers & R. Windhorst (ASU), and H. Yan (U. Missouri)) If we can see at most 3% of the universe, how can we estimate the total number of galaxies in it? Full Story: Live Science(8/5)

Health (KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) 'Love hormone' oxytocin may be missing link between sleep apnea and high blood pressure Scientists found that two brain-made chemicals, including oxytocin, may play a role in increasing blood pressure after repeated periods of low oxygen. getting a ife into me,bc i want to/can and did n damhnb wars,lie the idiots bet mahy similar,but dont bother encouraging others mmmmm​

 

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Ryan Crouser, the only three-time Olympic gold medal shot putter

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I would lick his pits clean like it was my fucking job

 

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Simone Biles (left) of the US showing respect to the floor gold medallist Rebeca Andrade (center) of Team Brazil, alongside bronze medallist Jordan Chiles (right) of the US

 

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A dried-up arm of the Nile provides another clue to how Egyptians built the pyramids

Nature remains one of humanity’s most important relationships.

 

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The sun is a 'runaway world collector' (Robert Lea) New research suggests runaway worlds taken in by the solar system could orbit its outskirts for billions of years before moving closer to the sun. Full Story: Space(8/5) China's secretive space plane caught on camera in orbit (Felix Schöfbänker) Two solar panels that can be seen at the end aren't visible on any of the computer renderings available online. Full Story: Space(8/5)

Skywatching See Venus and the Perseid meteor shower peak this week (Getty Images) Discover your night sky this week, August 5-11, 2024, using just your naked eyes. Full Story: Space

 

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Science & Astronomy The sun fires off 2 powerful X flares in less than 2 hours (NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams, helioviewer.org) The sun showcased its immense power yet again this morning (August 5), firing off not one but two X-class flares. Full Story: Space(8/5) Do meteor showers threaten satellites and the ISS? (Ignatiev via Getty Images) We examine whether meteor showers made from dust left by comets pose a hazard to satellites and the International Space Station. Full Story: Space(8/5)

SpaceX SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit (SpaceX) SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Sunday (Aug. 4), continuing a busy stretch for the company. Full Story: Space(8/4)

 

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Naval aviators observe an F/A-18E from VFA-136 as it makes an arrested landing aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Atlantic Ocean

 

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USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) transits the Caribbean Sea as it departs Puerto Cortes, Honduras during Continuing Promise

 

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An F/A-18E from VFA-211 prepares to launch from USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) during flight operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet

 

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Australia’s Jack Robinson rides a wave into the gold medal match of the surfing in Teahupo'o, Tahiti

 

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Bobby Finke of the United States celebrates after winning the men's 1500-meter freestyle final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 4, 2024