TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about 40 light years away that hosts seven Earth-sized rocky planets, with at least three orbiting in the habitable zone where liquid water could potentially exist. This makes it one ...
Astrobiology
Sep 11, 2025
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A scene straight out of a horror movie greeted researchers when they shined lights on a dark Georgia swamp and saw hundreds of red eyes staring back, photos show.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2025
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Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed innovative materials that can harness both singlet and triplet excited states for efficient, metal-free photocatalysis.
Materials Science
Aug 13, 2025
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Astronomers have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star—the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as much mass as the sun, ...
Astronomy
Aug 5, 2025
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A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among several scientists in recent months.
If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.
Space Exploration
Jul 9, 2025
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The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening up before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very ...
Astronomy
Apr 11, 2025
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Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and recognizing potential ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2025
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A research team led by Prof. Cao Xiaofeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered the cooperative roles of photoreceptors, epigenetic modifiers, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2025
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A "blood moon" will bathe a large swath of the world in red light overnight Thursday during a rare total lunar eclipse.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 13, 2025
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