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And finally, a billion years ago, ancient iron ore was forming in Western Australia. Environment reporter Peter de Kruijff looks into how it works. Feedback? Send us an email. More ABC science and technology: Web | Facebook | YouTube | ABC iview​ ​

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​ May's huge solar storm tested thousands of satellites ​ ​ The solar storm in May did more than just produce exceptional auroras. An analysis of US Space Force data has found more than 5,000 satellites had to alter their position to avoid deorbiting or crashing into each other.​ READ MORE

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​ Why people can 'choke' under pressure — even Olympians ​ ​ The Olympic and Paralympic Games are approaching, but even elite sportspeople can find themselves unable to perform. Why do athletes "choke" under pressure, and how can they reduce the likelihood of it happening again?​ READ MORE

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​ How the west was formed — research unearths age of ancient ore deposits ​ ​ The world's largest iron ore deposits in the Pilbara reached mining-level quality up to 1.4 billion years ago, a new study suggests.​ READ MORE

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​ For lead exposure in mining towns, the 'canary in the coal mine' is a sparrow ​ ​ Sparrows are often considered pests, but a new study suggests lead levels in the birds' blood could indicate if children in mining towns have been exposed to high levels of the poisonous chemical.​ ​

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(Lynn Scott) Severely injured giraffe with 'very twisted' zigzag neck spotted in South Africa New photos show a young giraffe with an extremely deformed neck in Kruger National Park. Read More​

History & Archaeology (Provincial Council of Álava) Lasers reveal Roman-era circus in Spain where 5,000 spectators watched horse-drawn chariot races Researchers used lidar technology to map Iruña Veleia, a Roman-era city in Spain. Read More​

Planet Earth (NASA Earth Observatory/Norman Kuring/Landsat) Earth from space: 'River of tea' bleeds into sea after Hurricane Sally smashes into US coast A 2020 satellite photo shows "blackwater" flowing from South Carolina's Winyah Bay after Hurricane Sally made landfall and triggered flash flooding. Read More​

Astronomy & Astrophysics (NASA/Bill Ingalls) The best meteor showers of 2024 are yet to come. Here are the key nights to watch for. Here's everything you need to know to see the best meteor showers of 2024. Read More​

Animals (John Gould and Chad T. Beranek) 'It's risky for male frogs out there': Female frog drags and attempts to eat screaming male Female green and golden bell frogs in Australia will eat their male counterparts when the males' mating call displeases them.

 

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The Launchpad

NASA celebrates 25 years of the Chandra X-ray observatory (NASA/SAO/CXC) Chandra launched in 1999 -- the same year Space.com started -- aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. From its egg-shaped orbit high above Earth's atmosphere that takes it over one-third of the way to the moon, the observatory has led to many discoveries by recording x-ray emissions beamed from long-dead stars, supermassive black holes and clusters of galaxies. Full Story: Space(7/23) hing Geomagnetic storm could bring auroras as far as New York (Fahim Al Mahmud Ashik / 500px via Getty Images) Heightened solar activity has prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a geomagnetic storm watch for July 24. nce & Astronomy Scientists find 2 searched-for 'missing link' black holes (Robert Lea) For decades, astronomers have searched without much joy for signs of "missing link" black holes, aka black holes with masses between those of "stellar-mass black holes" and "supermassive black holes." The former have been seen scattered across the universe and the latter are cosmic titans that dominate the hearts of galaxies - but when it comes to intermediate-mass black holes, scientists have seen evidence of only about ten. Full Story: Space(7/23) SpaceX Starlinks have made 50,000 avoidance maneuvers this year (SpaceX) Satellites in SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation made nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the last six months, about double the number made in the previous half-year. Although experts praise Elon Musk's space compay for its commitment to transparency, they warn about the implications of the soaring orbital traffic. Full Story: Space(7/23) Search for Life Alien weather report: JWST detects wind on 2 brown dwarfs (NASA/JPL–Caltech/University of Western Ontario/Stony Brook University/Tim Pyle) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered stormy weather in the sky of two brown dwarfs in the most detailed weather report yet from such "failed stars." Full Story: Space(7/23)

 

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A Walk On the Wild Side Atlas Obscura Takes On the Natural World Wild Life That Plant Eats What?

 

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These ancient marine reptiles got very big, very fast ics ​ Sharks are testing positive for cocaine Researchers detected trace amounts in every Brazilian sharpnosed shark they examined. READ NOW​

 

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Top Science News (National Park Service) 'Spectacular and definitely hazardous': Yellowstone geyser erupts, firing steam and debris over nearby tourists A hydrothermal eruption Tuesday surprised visitors walking among the colorful hot springs in Yellowstone National Park's Biscuit Basin, near the famous Old Faithful geyser. Read More​ ​ Get Kiplinger newsletters — free Build wealth, cut taxes, retire rich. For more than 100 years Kiplinger has helped readers of all ages live a richer life. Sign up for free email newsletters today to get the best of Kiplinger delivered straight to your inbox.​ ADVERTISEMENT

History & Archaeology (Eric Marmur, City of David) Moat that protected ancient Jerusalem's royalty discovered near parking lot After a 150-year search, archaeologists found the moat near a parking lot in Jerusalem. Read More​

Astronomy & Astrophysics (NASA/Bill Ingalls) 'Double' meteor shower will light up the skies next week. Here's how to watch. As Earth's orbit intersects with those of two comets this month, stargazers will have a chance to view spectacular double meteor showers. Read More​

Health (CDC/Science Photo Library) Scientists find secret 'back door' flu viruses use to enter cells Flu viruses that can use a second cellular entry point may move more effectively between animals and humans, scientists say. Read Mor​

 

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nce & Astronomy ISS scientists make headway in 'moonshot' cancer research (NASA) "Why do we go to space?" asked NASA administrator Bill Nelson to a small crowd at NASA headquarters last week. "We go to explore the heavens, but we also go to improve life here on Earth, and that includes attacking this dreaded disease that we know is cancer." Full Story: Space(7/25)

SpaceX SpaceX rocket failure shows need for multiple launch options (SpaceX) It's eerily quiet on the spaceflight front. In the past two weeks, there has been just a single orbital launch -- that of a Chinese Long March 4B rocket, which lofted the Gaofen-11 05 Earth-observation satellite on July 18. The lull stems chiefly from the temporary grounding of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which suffered an anomaly on July 11 that led to the loss of its payload, 20 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites. Full Story: Space(7/25)

Technology Detecting deepfakes with deep space tech (Adejumoke Owolabi) The eyes, the old saying goes, are the window to the soul — but when it comes to deepfake images, they might be a window into unreality.That's according to new research conducted at the University of Hull in the U.K., which applied techniques typically used in observing distant galaxies to determine whether images of human faces were real or not. Full Story: Space(7/24)

Entertainment Alien: The Xenomorph life cycle explained (Marvel Comics) If you're currently in the mood to get back into the iconic sci-fi series before it arrives, you'll want to read our in-depth examination of the Xenomorphs' many life stages and forms as seen in the movies. Full Story: Space(7/24)

Star Wars Yoda returns in 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures' Season 2 (Lucasfilm) "Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures" returns for its second highly-anticipated season on Disney+ and Disney Jr. on Aug. 14, 2024, and we've got a rowdy new trailer to unwrap. Full Story: Space(7/24)

 

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Model collapse could halt the improvement of large language models when they run out of human-produced training data and are instead trained on AI-generated data. (M. Boháček & H. Farid/arXiv (CC BY 4.0))

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What 'Mercury in retrograde' actually means

According to science, it's not a harbinger of chaos, but an optical illusion.

Five Things ​ Tree bark demonstrates an unexpected climate superpower READ NOW​ JWST detects a new exoplanet six times larger than Jupiter READ NOW​

 

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(Nature, food, landscape, travel/Getty Images) World's loneliest tree species can't reproduce without a mate. So AI is looking for one hidden in the forests of South Africa. A single specimen of an ancient tree species was found in 1895. Now scientists are using AI to find it a mate. Read More​

Space (Daniëlle Futselaar) Ultra-rare black hole found hiding in the center of the Milky Way A potential intermediate-mass black hole is hiding right next to our galaxy's supermassive black hole. Read More​

Space Exploration (Alamy) Boeing Starliner astronauts remain stuck on International Space Station with no set return date, NASA announces After nearly two months of postponement, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are still on board the ISS. But NASA and Boeing say they still plan to return the two aboard Starliner.

 

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Book Review: A Family’s Cancer Ordeal, and a Genetic Enigma​

By Emily Cataneo

Part memoir, part medical detective story, “A Fatal Mystery” is Lawrence Ingrassia’s account of his family’s tragic legacy of cancer and the discovery of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, a rare condition caused by a genetic mutation, which led to the deaths of his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew. Read on »

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Looking for Long Covid: A Clash of Definition and Study Design​

By Sara Talpos

Few experts dispute that long Covid can be debilitating, or that it warrants careful study. But a number of experts say it is misleading to frame it as a growing epidemic. That is at odds with the view of an influential group of VA researchers in St. Louis. Read on »

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The Perverse Legacy of Participation in Human Genomic Research​

By Misha Angrist

The story of how one person became the majority source of DNA for the Human Genome Project encapsulates 20th-century researchers’ attitudes toward donor consent, says Duke University’s Misha Angrist. Even now, he argues, bioethicists consider hiding people’s own genetic information from them as the ethical thing to do — which is a shame. Read on »

 

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