news Astronomy Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Modelling of telescope observations
A new A&A study infers Neptune's deep atmosphere holds more oxygen than Uranus's, hinting at different origins. The ranges overlap and rest on mixing models.
What it does not show Vertical mixing (Kzz) is unmeasured; letting it vary with latitude widens Uranus's inferred oxygen from 47-57 to 62-177 times protosolar.
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Lab aquarium study
In aquarium tests, all 5 bleached coral fragments touching a healthy clone recovered; the 5 held a few millimetres apart did not. A small…
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed; DNA (phylogenomic) study; fossil literature review
DNA from museum owls suggests barn owls reached the Americas through the Caribbean, which later lost six barn owl species, more than any other…
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news Astronomy Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Observational study
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news Physics Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Collider measurement
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Laboratory shock experiments
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news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Lab aquarium study
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news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Global observational analysis of satellite-derived datasets
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Laboratory shock experiments
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news Anthropology Evidence status: Peer reviewed (accepted manuscript) · One marine sediment core
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news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Observational (historical records)
A century of records shows most tracked European bee species and about half of hoverflies now occupy fewer places, though most species still persist.
news Physics Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Collider measurement
STAR at Brookhaven's RHIC finds jets lose energy in oxygen–oxygen collisions, a sign of quark–gluon plasma at low energy. What was measured and its limits.
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed; population biobank analysis; no health outcomes assessed
A survey of about 905,000 genomes finds a typical person carries 4.3 to 5.3 million variants and 1 to 3 rare disease-linked ones, mostly as carriers.
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Why is the Moon orange tonight? Near the horizon its light crosses about 38 times more air, stripping out blue. See the…
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How hot is the Sun? The surface is 5,772 K (5,499 °C, 9,930 °F), the core about 15.7 million K and the…
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Count seconds from flash to thunder and divide by 3 for km (5 for miles). Why it works, a worked example, and…
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How deep is the ocean? About 3,682 m (12,080 ft, 2.3 mi) on average and 10,935 m (6.8 mi) at the Challenger…
