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Mole Rats Get Stressed When Earth's Magnetic Field Vanishes, Study Suggests
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Mole Rats Get Stressed When Earth's Magnetic Field Vanishes, Study Suggests

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Ancient Skeletons Reveal a Secret Hidden in Medieval Sicily for 1,000 Years
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Ancient Skeletons Reveal a Secret Hidden in Medieval Sicily for 1,000 Years

Ancient DNA reveals medieval Sicily as a genetic melting pot, where people buried in Christian and Muslim cemeteries shared roots in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Sicily changed rulers repeatedly between the 5th and 15th centuries CE, passing through the hands of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, Islamic dynasties, and the Normans and Swabians. [...]

One Habit May Delay Ovarian Aging – And a Drug Could Mimic Its Effects
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One Habit May Delay Ovarian Aging – And a Drug Could Mimic Its Effects

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Advancing Astronomy at MIT with X-ray Reverberation Mapping
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Advancing Astronomy at MIT with X-ray Reverberation Mapping

Professor Erin Kara of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research is helping advance our understanding of the most extreme objects in the Universe by analyzing X-ray reverberations and other astrophysical data.

Even the Rubin's Test Camera Produces Stunning Images
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Even the Rubin's Test Camera Produces Stunning Images

The Vera Rubin Observatory's Commissioning Camera operated for about 7 weeks in 2024, before the observatory released its well-known first look images. It's an engineering camera, and its job was to test the VRO's equipment and procedures. Now, the VRO has released the ComCam's image of the Seagull nebula. It's a pretty stunning image for an engineering camera.