'Unimaginable' video shows great white sharks ripping humpback whale carcass to shreds
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NOAA researchers stumbled upon a gang of great white sharks scavenging a dead humpback whale calf off the coast of Boston. Now, they're sharing the footage.
Fastest-orbiting asteroid in solar system discovered
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The newfound asteroid 2021 PH27 completes one lap around our star every 113 Earth days. That's the shortest orbital period of any known solar system object except the planet Mercury.
FDA grants full approval for Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine
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The Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Monday (Aug.23). It's the first COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. to be fully approved.
Astronauts and satellites watch Hurricane Henri from space as US Northeast braces for storm
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As parts of New England brace for Hurricane Henri to make landfall in New York Sunday (Aug. 22), astronauts and satellites are tracking the historic storm from space.
NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuit
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NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a Blue Origin lawsuit, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.
Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is fighting an invisible battle against the inner Earth, new study finds
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Researchers studied geothermal heat flow below West Antarctica, and found that the infamous Thwaites Glacier is being disproportionately cooked from below.
Rattlesnake rattles use auditory illusion to trick human brains
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Snakes use an audio trick to cause approaching mammals to underestimate their distance to the snakes, creating a safety buffer region between themselves and a potential threat.
Sexually frustrated sea snakes mistake scuba divers for potential mates
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Sea snakes, particularly males, are more likely to interact with scuba divers during mating season because the snakes can't distinguish the divers from potential mates, a new study has found.
400-year-old 'Muga dhambi' is one of the largest and oldest corals in the Great Barrier Reef
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Australian researchers have discovered the widest, and quite possibly the oldest, coral colony in the Great Barrier Reef, which they have named «Muga dhambi.»
Chinese astronomers eye Tibetan Plateau site for observatory project
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Chinese astronomers hope to establish a major observatory program on the roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, with new research arguing for pristine observing conditions nestled in the uplands.
SpaceX Starlink satellites responsible for over half of close encounters in orbit, scientist says
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SpaceX's Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft in low Earth orbit every week, according to available data. That’s about 50% of all such incidents.
World's most elusive giant squid could be monogamous, female corpse hints
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A female giant squid caught off the coast of Japan mated with a single male in her lifetime, a surprising finding given what little is known about these creatures' reproduction.
Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of energy
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Scientists used an unconventional method of creating nuclear fusion to yield a record-breaking burst of energy of more than 10 quadrillion watts, by firing intense beams of light from the world's largest lasers at a tiny pellet of hydrogen.
Lab-made mini brains grow their own sets of 'eyes'
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A group of scientists has grown mini brains that have something their real counterparts do not: a set of eye-like structures called «optic cups» that give rise to the retina
