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[ad_1] Get the Mach Newsletter. SUBSCRIBE It will be too late for Halloween this year, but a skull-like asteroid that some call the "comet of death" is coming back for another visit. …

[ad_1] According to a new study published in Nature, astronomers have detected radio jets belonging to a neutron star with a strong magnetic field. The team, led by researchers from the University …

[ad_1] Nearly 80 years later, the violent bombings of the Second World War still have repercussions all over the world. Christopher Scott would know – two of his aunts were killed at …

[ad_1] Astronomers using Karl G. Jansky of the NSF's Very Large Array discovered a jet of rapidly moving material propelled outwards from a strongly magnetized neutron star. The discovery, reported in the …

[ad_1] Several aerospace companies, including SpaceX and OneWeb, have promised to launch one day thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, but these mega-constellations could make space a more congested and dangerous …

[ad_1] An alarming study found that a group of industrial chemicals that humans began to ban several decades ago could cause the collapse of many global populations of orca whales in the …

[ad_1] An artist's design of what might look like the newly discovered Ledumahadi mafube species. Another South African dinosaur, Heterodontosaurus tucki, looks in the foreground.(Photo: Viktor Radermacher) Fossils of a new giant …

[ad_1] The bias, identified in an article published today in PLOS ONEis considered particularly important because departmental seminars are so frequent and young academics are more likely to experiment with them before …

[ad_1] In the southern parts of the Arctic, plants are becoming taller because of climate change. The freckle lichenPeltigera aphthosa) is often found on mossy soils, rocks or under trees in Arctic …

[ad_1] An erebid butterfly seen sipping tears from a black chin eye. There are actually two parasites on this poor bird – notice the mosquito on his chest.Image: Leandro João Carneiro from …