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Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid set to make a close approach to Earth on Tuesday.'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints — but we won't know for 3 more years
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a collision course with Earth by another asteroid before it flies past our planet in 2029.www.livescience.com
The 2024 ON asteroid measures 290 metres (950 feet) across and will come within 1 million km of Earth, according to the US space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.….
A stadium-sized asteroid will skim Earth tomorrow, Nasa warns
‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid 2024 ON to come within 1 million km from Earth
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The “Wow! Signal,” not surprisingly, was a dud
A famous radio signal from space long considered as a possible sign of another civilization, in the end, falls flat.
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Lizards use nostril bubbles to breathe underwater and evade predators, researchers find
Water anoles jump into streams when threatened and produce a bubble that helps them stay underwater for up to 20 minutes
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Astronomers Have Found a Star with a Hot Jupiter and a Cold Super Jupiter in Orbit
Located in the constellation Ursa Major, roughly 300 light-years from Earth, is the Sun-like star HD 118203 (Liesma). In 2006, astronomers detected an exoplanet (HD 118203 b) similar in size and twice as massive as Jupiter that orbits very closely to Liesma (7% of the distance between Earth and...
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This Famous Van Gogh Painting Features Astonishingly Accurate Physics
The creative flow.
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Beautifully Preserved Comma Shrimp Fossil Found in Japan | Sci.News
Paleontologists have described a new species of fossil comma shrimp based on a well-preserved specimen found in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.
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Actually, Ceres Might Have Formed in the Asteroid Belt After All
Studies of the Dawn mission data taken at Ceres suggest that this dwarf planet may have formed in the Asteroid Belt, instead of farther out.
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Wild Video Captures Baby Tardigrade Riding Its Predator
Tardigrades may be the world's cutest and most famous microscopic critters.
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September 19, 2024 at 5:40 p.m. ET
For the next two months, an unusual object about the size of a bus will be orbiting above our heads. Say hello to Earth’s temporary new mini-moon.
From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid will be pulled in by Earth’s gravity — sort of like a window shopper — before returning to its normal orbit around the sun.
Objects that get captured by our gravitational force for a short time are known as mini-moons.
This one, named asteroid 2024 PT5, came from the Arjuna asteroid belt near our sun, about 93 million miles away. Of course, you won’t really be able to “say hello” without a professional telescope.
At 33 feet long, the mini-moon is too mini for our eyes. Its closest approach is still five times farther than our permanent, non-mini moon.
That challenge, though, makes it all the more exciting that scientists are able to detect the tiny rock in the first place…….
From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid will be pulled in by Earth’s gravity — sort of like a window shopper — before returning to its normal orbit around the sun.
Objects that get captured by our gravitational force for a short time are known as mini-moons.
This one, named asteroid 2024 PT5, came from the Arjuna asteroid belt near our sun, about 93 million miles away. Of course, you won’t really be able to “say hello” without a professional telescope.
At 33 feet long, the mini-moon is too mini for our eyes. Its closest approach is still five times farther than our permanent, non-mini moon.
That challenge, though, makes it all the more exciting that scientists are able to detect the tiny rock in the first place…….
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Life and death battles happening beneath our feet all the time. It's amazing.Wild Video Captures Baby Tardigrade Riding Its Predator
Tardigrades may be the world's cutest and most famous microscopic critters.
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Parents who find themselves exasperated by their child’s fussy eating, take heart: the refusal to tuck into a broader range of foods is largely down to genes rather than parenting, according to scientists.
Researchers investigated eating habits in toddlers to teenagers and found that on average fussiness over food changed little from 16 months to 13 years old. There was a minor peak in pickiness at seven years, then a slight decline thereafter.
When they looked into the drivers of fussy eating, DNA emerged as the dominant factor. Genetic variation in the population explained 60% of the differences in pickiness at 16 months, rising to 74% and more from three to 13 years old, the study found.
The finding suggests that eating only a narrow range of foods and grimacing at the prospect of trying something new are more down to nature than nurture. It also points to windows of opportunity when interventions to encourage a more varied diet might be more effective.
Dr Zeynep Nas, a behavioural geneticist at UCL, said: “The main takeaway from this work is that food fussiness is not something that arises from parenting. It really does come down to the genetic differences between us.”……
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Parents who find themselves exasperated by their child’s fussy eating, take heart: the refusal to tuck into a broader range of foods is largely down to genes rather than parenting, according to scientists.
Researchers investigated eating habits in toddlers to teenagers and found that on average fussiness over food changed little from 16 months to 13 years old. There was a minor peak in pickiness at seven years, then a slight decline thereafter.
When they looked into the drivers of fussy eating, DNA emerged as the dominant factor. Genetic variation in the population explained 60% of the differences in pickiness at 16 months, rising to 74% and more from three to 13 years old, the study found.
The finding suggests that eating only a narrow range of foods and grimacing at the prospect of trying something new are more down to nature than nurture. It also points to windows of opportunity when interventions to encourage a more varied diet might be more effective.
Dr Zeynep Nas, a behavioural geneticist at UCL, said: “The main takeaway from this work is that food fussiness is not something that arises from parenting. It really does come down to the genetic differences between us.”……
Fussy eating in children largely down to genetics, research shows
Pickiness ‘not down to parenting’ and peaks at seven years old, according to study
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Beyond Imagination: 140 Milky Ways Spanned by Record-Breaking Black Hole Jets
Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years across, akin to 140 Milky Way galaxies aligned. This discovery, emerging from a galaxy about 10 times the mass of our Milky Way, suggests that such jets could significantly
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Rainbow swamp: The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winter
Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp.
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Mysterious Radio Signals From Deep Space Might Have Reached Earth
A deep space radio signal, travelling for 8 billion years, was detected by astronomers, offering insights into fast radio bursts.
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