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Hubble observations challenge the idea that winds from exploding stars helped ionizing radiation escape early galaxies and clear the hydrogen fog that obscured the young universe. The data instead suggest those winds blocked the radiation they were expected to release.
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Researchers used 24,000 ultracold atoms to build an isolated quantum system that repeatedly expands and contracts, resembling a miniature cosmological cycle. The experiment suggests that time can emerge from internal changes in a system without an external clock.
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Two astronauts spent 7 hours and 11 minutes installing a new solar array on the International Space Station. A final array planned for November 5 would increase the station's available power by as much as 30%, supporting operations and its eventual controlled deorbit.
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Hubble observations challenge the idea that winds from exploding stars helped ionizing radiation escape early galaxies and clear the hydrogen fog that obscured the young universe. The data instead suggest those winds blocked the radiation they were expected to release.
The finding undermines a leading mechanism for cosmic reionization and shifts attention toward other ways
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A central explanation for how the early universe became transparent may be wrong, forcing revisions to models of its first galaxies.
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Researchers used 24,000 ultracold atoms to build an isolated quantum system that repeatedly expands and contracts, resembling a miniature cosmological cycle. The experiment suggests that time can emerge from internal changes in a system without an external clock.
The result treats time as a relationship among evolving parts of a system rather than
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The experiment provides a laboratory route for testing whether time is fundamental or an emergent property of physical change.
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Two astronauts spent 7 hours and 11 minutes installing a new solar array on the International Space Station. A final array planned for November 5 would increase the station's available power by as much as 30%, supporting operations and its eventual controlled deorbit.
The upgrade expands the station's electrical capacity while extending its ability to support demanding research
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More power improves the station's near-term usefulness and helps make its eventual retirement safer and more controllable.
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Researchers recorded a live bigfin squid of the Magnapinna genus above the seafloor off central California. The sighting, announced September 2, is the first documented live observation of the genus in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
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A fossil and climate analysis suggests crocodiles survived the asteroid impact 66 million years ago because their preference for warm environments kept them in tropical refuges that remained habitable afterward. That ecological advantage may have protected them while many other groups collapsed.
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A new algorithm improves distance estimates between closely connected points in massive computer networks without giving up speed. Its multiscale sampling method overcomes a limitation that had constrained earlier approaches for nearly 25 years.
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Researchers recorded a live bigfin squid of the Magnapinna genus above the seafloor off central California. The sighting, announced September 2, is the first documented live observation of the genus in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
The observation extends the known range of one of the deep sea's least understood animals
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A single video expands the known distribution of a poorly observed species and creates a target for future research.
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A fossil and climate analysis suggests crocodiles survived the asteroid impact 66 million years ago because their preference for warm environments kept them in tropical refuges that remained habitable afterward. That ecological advantage may have protected them while many other groups collapsed.
The key shift is from treating crocodile survival as a matter of generalized toughness to
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The finding shows that survival after mass extinctions can depend on where a species lives and what conditions it can tolerate, not just its anatomy.
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A new algorithm improves distance estimates between closely connected points in massive computer networks without giving up speed. Its multiscale sampling method overcomes a limitation that had constrained earlier approaches for nearly 25 years.
The breakthrough improves the tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency in a core network problem. Faster,
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A long-standing algorithmic bottleneck has been weakened, potentially making complex networks easier to analyze at scale.
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