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Even the microwave oven in your kitchen is not immune to bacteria. The irradiating environment within a microwave oven might seem inhospitable to microbes. But swabs from microwave ovens in …
More than 100 bacteria species can flourish in microwave ovens Read More
Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most massive and luminous globular star cluster, a new study finds. …
The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a horde of lightweights Read More
It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere — but you wouldn’t know it from the thermostat. On August 26, a remote stretch of the coastline in Western Australia experienced the highest …
Summer-like heat is scorching the Southern Hemisphere — in winter Read More
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it …
Mega El Niños triggered the world’s worst mass extinction Read More
When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United States, turned to vaccines targeting the closely related smallpox virus …
Even as vaccines for mpox reach Africa, questions remain about the virus Read More
For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in the Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the ambipolar electric field, was predicted to exist decades ago but …
Scientists find a long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere Read More
Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules. Rather than reproducing by splitting itself in two, …
Some bacteria in your mouth can divide into as many as 14 cells at once Read More
For the first time, astronomers have watched gas boil and bubble on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed the red giant star R Doradus with the Atacama Large …
How a dying star is similar to a lava lamp Read More
Transcript James McCall: Solar production in the US really started to pick up around 2012. As solar really became mainstream, there was a lot more concerns of land use changes. …
Can solar farms and crop farms coexist? Read More
Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in top hats and petticoats. That type of retrofuturistic mash-up is the …
Why this physicist is bringing thermodynamics to the quantum age Read More