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- New Zealand's ancient monster penguins had northern hemisphere doppelgangers
- NASA's TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot world
- To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter
- Spider silk can create lenses useful for biological imaging
- A cosmic mystery: ESO telescope captures the disappearance of a massive star
- Beavers gnawing away at the permafrost
| New Zealand's ancient monster penguins had northern hemisphere doppelgangers Posted: 30 Jun 2020 12:57 PM PDT New Zealand's monster penguins that lived 62 million years ago had doppelgangers in Japan, the USA and Canada, a new study has found. |
| NASA's TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot world Posted: 30 Jun 2020 09:51 AM PDT KELT-9 b is one of the hottest planets known. New measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of this bizarre world. |
| To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter Posted: 30 Jun 2020 09:51 AM PDT On a quest to find the Universe's largest black holes, researchers identify the center of the solar system within 100 meters. |
| Spider silk can create lenses useful for biological imaging Posted: 30 Jun 2020 08:14 AM PDT Spider silk is useful for a variety of biomedical applications: It exhibits mechanical properties superior to synthetic fibers for tissue engineering, and it is not toxic or harmful to living cells. One unexpected application for spider silk is its use in the creation of biocompatible lenses for biological imaging applications. Researchers now describe the feasibility of creating lenses capitalizing on the properties of natural spider silk material. |
| A cosmic mystery: ESO telescope captures the disappearance of a massive star Posted: 30 Jun 2020 04:20 AM PDT Astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy. Scientists think this could indicate that the star became less bright and partially obscured by dust. An alternative explanation is that the star collapsed into a black hole without producing a supernova. |
| Beavers gnawing away at the permafrost Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:20 PM PDT Alaska's beavers are profiting from climate change, and spreading rapidly. In just a few years' time, they have not only expanded into many tundra regions where they'd never been seen before; they're also building more and more dams in their new homes, creating a host of new water bodies. |
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