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Standing watch aboard USS Stout (DDG 55) in the Norwegian Sea

 

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They're warty, lumpy and bumpy but these ugly pumpkins are prized for their looks​ ​ Ornamental pumpkins, sought after in the US for their weird shapes and unique colours, have exploded in popularity as Halloween decorations.​ ​

 

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Chinese submarines on patrol

 

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Top Science News (The Archaeologists, National Historical Museums, Sweden; CC BY) 1,200-year-old Viking cemetery with 'stone ship' burials discovered in Sweden Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines. Read More​

Astronomy & Astrophysics (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)) James Webb telescope finds 1st possible 'failed stars' beyond the Milky Way — and they could reveal new secrets of the early universe The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever. Read More​

Health (JohnnyGreig via Getty Images) 'Wake-up call': Women are more likely than men to die of complications after heart surgery Complications that arise after surgery are more likely to be underrecognized and undertreated in women than in men, leading to higher death rates, new research suggests. Why? Read More​

Biology (Christopher Thomas, Tabea Lilian Marx et al. / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences) Watch 1st-ever video of ovulation occurring in real-time A new imaging technique enabled scientists to film every step of ovulation as it unfolds in mouse cells. Read More​

Technology (gorodenkoff/Getty Images) New app performs motion capture using just your smartphone — no suits, specialized cameras or equipment needed Motion capture requires special equipment and infrastructure that can cost upward of $100,000 — but scientists have created a smartphone app and AI algorithm to do the same job.

 

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Review ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Strong Characters and Combat Make Its Flaws Easy to Overlook happy hallpween huh dibt have to malw sense huh ,;ike many other duh​

 

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NASA faces tough decisions on Orion's heat shield (NASA) NASA remains in an ongoing test mode to determine what's behind the ablative thermal protective material that chipped away unexpectedly from the Artemis 1 Orion heat shield during its reentry into Earth's atmosphere back on Dec. 11, 2022. Full Story: Space(10/29) China launches crew of 3 to Tiangong space station (video) (CCTV) China's next human spaceflight mission is on its way into orbit. A Long March 2F rocket topped with the Shenzhou 19 crew spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today (Oct. 19) at 4:27 p.m. EDT (2027 GMT; 4:27 a.m. Oct. 30 Beijing time), rising into a night sky above the spaceport. Full Story: Space(10/29)

Space Deal of the Day Black Friday space gifts 2024: Telescope deals and more (Unistellar, Vaonis, Meta) Black Friday is just weeks away and with Prime Day in October ending we've already found some decent early telescope deals, binocular deals, discounts on star projectors, camera price drops, Lego, drones and more. So for space fans looking for a good deal for Christmas gifts now might be the right time to start shopping, ahead of the holiday season. Full Story: Space(11/14)

Spaceflight NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom (photo) (NASA) NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects of solar sailing, a next-gen propulsion strategy NASA thinks could greatly advance our exploration of the solar system. Solar sails harness the momentum of photons, using their subtle but constant push to cruise through the heavens like a boat through the ocean, without the need for propellant. Full Story: Space(10/25)

Science & Astronomy NASA delays budget-cut decision about Hubble and Chandra (NASA) NASA is delaying making a final decision about potential cost cuts that will determine the fate of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and affect the Hubble Space Telescope's science program. Although no official word has been given for the reason behind this delay, it seems NASA is keeping its options open until confirming its budget for the new fiscal year. Full Story: Space(10

 

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(Charloux et al., 2024, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0) Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement hidden in Saudi Arabian oasis A Bronze Age settlement hidden on the Arabian Peninsula reveals secrets about the slow growth of urbanization in the region. Read More​

Climate Change (Lucas Ninno/Getty Images) 'We are teetering on a planetary tightrope': Cut emissions in half right now to prevent climate catastrophe, UN warns A new U.N. report has found the world will warm by twice the 1.5-degree-Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement by 2100 if countries fail to slash greenhouse gas emissions right now. Read More​

Space Exploration (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981 NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's main transmitter. Using Voyager's weaker backup transmitter, engineers are assessing the problem from 15 billion miles away. Read More​

Health (Hiraman via Getty Images) How to get better faster when you have the flu, according to science Are there any scientifically proven ways to shorten a flu infection? Live Science spoke with two experts to find out. Read More​

Animals (Gabriel Lío) Oldest tadpole on record was a Jurassic giant The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find.

 

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Astrophotographer captures Tsuchinshan-ATLAS anti-tail (Miguel Claro) This close-up image of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was taken from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 when the comet was displaying an impressive level of brightness and details, as well as a cool 'anti-tail.' Full Story: Space(10/30)

Spaceflight NASA to resume ISS spacewalks in 2025 after spacesuit leak (NASA) NASA plans to resume spacewalks on the space station in 2025 after a leaky spacesuit suspended those activities in June. "We are planning our next set ... early next year," Bill Spetch, operations and integration manager of NASA's International Space Station (ISS) program, said of spacewalks during a press conference Oct. 25 following the conclusion of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission to the orbiting complex. Full Story: Space(10/30)

Science & Astronomy 1st image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate (Event Horizon Telescope collaboration) Although our local cosmic abyss, named Sgr A* (short for Sagittarius A*), resides just 26,000 light-years from Earth, it has proven to be a very difficult object to image. This is thanks in part to material whipping around it at near light-speeds. However, after years of trying, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project succeeded in 2022.The black hole's silhouette emerged from the shadows, appearing like a fuzzy orange doughnut. Yet now, an independent analysis of the EHT data suggests part of the image's doughnut-like appearance may be an artifact due to the way it was put together. This discovery owes itself to a trio of scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Full Story: Space(10/30)

SpaceX Astronaut snaps spooky photo of SpaceX Dragon capsule (NASA/Don Pettit) The black-and-white image shows the belly of the Dragon, including windows with filters on board to lessen the bright sun. "I like how the sun shines through the stitching, personifying the composition," Pettit wrote Oct. 24 on X, formerly Twitter. Full Story: Space(10/30)

 

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Last day tour on the bike...lovely scenery, pretty rocks, good food and drink!

 

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After 68 weeks of injections, participants taking semaglutide reported a much bigger drop on the pain scale: an average of 42 points, versus an average of 28 points for placebo recipients. (Dr. P. Marazzi/Science Photo Library)

Anti-obesity drug alleviates knee arthritis​

 

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Chateau de Chambord, always one of my favorite structures ​

 

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16 brutal and captivating wildlife images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year shortlist

 

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Top Science News (Ken and Keli Chaffin) Father-daughter team decodes 'alien signal' from Mars that stumped the world for a year A father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a year ago — but the meaning of the extraterrestrial message remains a mystery. Read More​ ​ Tackle your credit card debt with 0% interest until nearly 2026 Pay no interest until nearly 2026 with some of the best hand-picked credit cards this year, all with no annual fee. Experts identified these top credit card of 2024 offering 0% intro APR until nearly 2026. Find out more​ ADVERTISEMENT

Climate Change (UniversalImagesGroup/Getty Images) Earth is racing toward climate conditions that collapsed key Atlantic currents before the last ice age, study finds Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward. Read More​

Natural Disasters (Anadolu via Getty Images)) What is DANA, the strange weather phenomenon that has caused deadly flooding in Spain? With record-high Mediterranean temperatures and a year's worth of rain falling in mere hours, Spain has been devastated by the weather phenomenon known as DANA. Read More​

Astronomy & Astrophysics (EHT Collaboration) 1st image of Milky Way's 'black hole heart' has errors, study claims A 2022 image of our galaxy's central black hole taken with the Event Horizon Telescope could have some important inaccuracies, a new study claims.